I had a great idea for our family’s Christmas video.
We’d prepared for it for a week…
Writing lyrics (yep, it’s our musical debut)…
Getting props…
Assigning parts…
The day the videographer was supposed to come out, we were all sick – coughing and runny, drippy noses. Not really attractive in a Christmas video.
So we postponed it a few days.
Yesterday we still weren’t perfectly healthy, but we were better. Healthy enough that we could get through what we needed to without coughing.
Six hours before the videographer was due to arrive, we started cleaning the house (since some of it would be on the green screen, and some would be live action).
Two hours before Video Time, the house looked good, so we switched our attention to ourselves.
Colter started shaving the boys’ hair.
Baths and showers were proceeding on schedule.
Everybody got dressed in clean clothes.
The girls’ hair was brushed and combed. I offered to curl Brett’s hair (it looked great). So then I had to curl Jade’s hair too. Then all the girls decided Mom had to have her hair curled so we would all match. (Indigo was very proud of the fact that her hair curled all by itself).
Half an hour before Video Time we were mostly ready, so I put my makeup on. Normally I don’t wear much makeup, but I put it on for videos and special occasions.
Lipstick… check.
Blush… check.
Eye shadow… check.
Mascara… check.
A couple of minutes later, I noticed my right eye was hurting. I figured I had an eyelash in there – so went looking.
Nothing.
Still hurting, so I had Jim look.
Nothing.
Now it was really hurting, so I started flushing it.
Nope. Still hurting.
A little while later, the videographer shows up. At this point, I can’t even keep my eye open. It’s tearing and having sharp stabbing pains.
I felt useless. Once again, they basically did the video without me. My singing part…
Gone. (which wasn’t terrible since I’m actually not a very good singer).
I did manage to join in the family singing part. But my eye was tearing the entire time.
I couldn’t even do the mailbag video – Jim and Jade did it for me.
Very, very frustrating.
A couple hours and an emergency room visit later, I was resting peacefully with prescription eye antibiotic drops, numbing drops, and some powerful pain killers.
Yep… in case you didn’t figure it out. I somehow scratched my eye with the mascara wand. Still not sure how I pulled that one off – I never even felt it touch my eye, let alone scratch it.
Today it’s feeling much better – a dull throb instead of stabbing pain.
I still feel really stupid, but I’m hopeful that Dustin will work his video magic and make the video awesome.
