Gotta Get Back on the Horse
When the girls started riding lessons, I warned them that at some point they were going to fall off of that horse. Not to scare them of course, just the opposite, I wanted them to be prepared and hoped there were no injuries that came with the fall. Last Monday it finally happened and scared me to death but definitely could have been worse. The lesson started great. They were so excited because we hadn’t been in several weeks because Landan had Covid. They had gotten a new pony during that time that would not leave me and Katie alone. I was dealing with it eating my hair at the time so I didn’t see the actual fall but apparently Chica decided she wanted to cut in to a field instead of running straight and ran Lilli’s hip and leg right into a post. As she was coming down she cut her arm on barbed wire. It knocked the wind out of her really bad and her ribs hurt. Her left hip was visibly swollen and her elbow hit hard. Even with all of that, the first thing she said to m...