To everyone who is wondering...YES...I have a bruise on my chin. Now, why would I have a bruise on my chin, you ask, and how exactly would that happen? Simple, I reply. My injury was caused in a game of laser tag. That's what you were thinking isn't it? It makes perfect sense.

I was trying to figure out how to work Joaquin's birthday gift (a set of laser tag weapons and goggles). Joseph and I decided to try and figure out how these things worked the other night after the kids went to bed. Joaquin had tried to play with them earlier, but had become frustrated because they were so complicated. After we kind of figured out how to use them, we were playing around a little bit in the kitchen with them. An earpiece tells you "you are out" when you have been "hit", a phrase I was hearing way too much. In an effort to hide, I ducked down behind the kitchen counter to take cover. In my adrenalin rush, I forgot about the stools at the counter and hit my chin on one as I ducked down with such force, that I am surprised that a bruise was the only result.

Somehow I think I wouldn't make the best soldier.