It was not on my agenda this morning to have a mini crisis. Shortly before we were ready to leave to deliver all the kids to school, Zeke had a major bloody nose. He gets them quite often, especially when the air is dry but today it was a real gusher. It was literally running down his face and none of the usual techniques were working. I held kleenexes to his nose and tipped his head back. After a few minutes, I gave up on that and tried something else. By now, he had blood all over his face, his clothes and his bed. I tried a cold compress on his nose, Steve tried stuffing a wad a cotton between his upper lip and his top front teeth and we tried all the other stuff that usually works. I finally just had to stand Zeke in the bathroom over the sink and just let the blood run right into the sink. After another 15 minutes, the blood flow finally slowed down a bit. Steve left to take Sophia to daycare and I left left Zeke standing over the sink with Brittney so I could get the other kids to school on time. Then I came right back and cleaned up Zeke, loaded him into the van with a towel and we took Brittney to school. Then I brought him back home and made him lay down on his bed for a while to try to keep the bleeding from starting up again. It seems to be ok now so I'm going to take him to school, zip over to work and hope I don't get a phone call that it's started up again.