Ahhhhh, I can still hear the cries now. Mom my nose is bleeding, the skin is gone on my knee, I scraped my elbow……….. again. OR My favorite I need a spongebob band-aid. “Why” I would ask when said injury had no blood. “Because it makes it feel better”. Wow the band-aid companies really have  kids bamboozled.  Whatever works! A couple weeks ago my glittering acrobat was sitting still (so she says) and a gushing nose bleed started. While she made her way into the bathroom leaving a grisly trail behind her I kept thinking, they didn’t tell us about this in mommy class. I remembered from my high school years in softball to pinch the bridge of the nose. Well that didn’t work. Now my lion tamer has decided to join in on the first aid front. He insists that we put ice on the bridge of her nose. That didn’t work either. Mind you we are trying to entertain some friends while all of this going on. After about 30 minutes of frustration and thinking we may need a trip to the ER. I opened the bathroom cabinet and staring at me was a box of tampons. The light bulb went off, I mean the Dr. friend of Mariandas’ in Sex in the City did it. Maybe it could work. I took out a tampon and cut it lengthwise and put it in her nose. It worked! My acrobat was absolutely mortified and refused to come out of the bathroom. I left for a minute to explain to our guests what was going on. Upon my return my lion tamer was trying to explain to my acrobat what those “sticks” were really used for. I stepped in and gave a full explanation. Now ever more mortified my acrobat wanted to get away from us and go play. I removed the first set of “sticks” and put fresh ones in place and sent her on her way. No worries, I cut the string off.