If you make it through the early years of raising children without crayon or marker on your walls or floor, I salut you. It happens to the best of us, but one day, it was a repeat occurrence.

I walked into the kitchen and, to my horror, found red marker on the floor. As I cleaned it up, I reminded my darling children not to color on the floor.

Now that my solid mothering skills were all used up, I walked into the living room to relax only to discover red marker on the living room floor, too. Unbelievable! I thought. Repeat offenders! Not in my house! This time, they cleaned it up but with slightly confused expressions as they tried to tell me they didn’t do it.

A few minutes go by and I head to the kitchen, and I know I don’t even need to tell you, but there was more red marker on the floor. Who is raising these kids that would do this yet again? So I call them into the kitchen for a serious talk only to discover that one of my daughter’s toes is bleeding. So it was blood and not red marker. I am a regular Nancy Drew.

So if your child insists that they did not color with red marker on the floor, consider the possibility that it might be blood and inspect your child for wounds.