For all of the events described in the next few paragraphs, know that everyone is alive and well. We just had a few adventures.
Last Sunday the forecast for Pittsburgh was a formidable 4 inches of snow, so you can see why the schools felt they had to close! And to make that decision Sunday night when nary a flake was in the air! In my day. . . Truly though, when I was growing up, schools would wait until the morning of any given weather to make their decision. I understand that parents value having more time to plan for childcare, but this also leads to several snow days that didn’t need to happen. School definitely could have happened on Monday. Sarah was very upset Sunday evening when she got the news because she had been so eager to see her bus driver and go to school. By Monday morning though she was happy enough to have another day at home. In the afternoon I took the girls to our usual sledding hill and we learned that we needed new sleds because ours were actually too slippery. On Amy’s first run her sled spun around and she ran into a tree head first. I was sending a message to a friend when I heard Amy’s bestie call her name. I looked up to see Amy crumpled at the base of a tree. I ran to her and was relieved that she was ok aside from a sore head. I asked her various questions to make sure she was mentally ok. She did many more sled runs but wished she had a different kind of sled that was a little easier to control. Those new sleds arrived yesterday. I had tried to get some in person but the sled shelves of Target were bare as bare can be.
Sunday night we submitted everything for the first tier of the CAPA application, and I was so glad we got that off of our plate. Amy was inundated with homework so it felt like a rough start back to school, but she slogged through it in time to do her Higgy zoom on Thursday to connect with other teens who wear braces for scoliosis. Friday night she prepared for her exciting overnight to Detroit with her aunt and uncle to see the musical Six. She listened to the soundtrack at every opportunity and used face paint to write Six on her hand in the way it is written on playbills. The excitement about that trip helped her be less anxious about the workshop at CAPA to help her prepare if she gets to the level of auditioning. All we can do now is wait and hope.
Carl and Sarah went to our mountain house yesterday to play in the snow and go snowmobiling. Carl got a system that allows them to talk normally and hear each other easily through their helmets. They also enjoyed a long nap. When it was time to leave, that is when the real adventure began. I got a call at 9:30pm from Carl beginning with, “So, everything is ok now, but we had a bit of an adventure…” Evidently, as they were on the dirt road to leave, a big truck was coming towards them. Carl figured his Jeep could handle being slightly off the road on one side, but that turned out to be a ditch and they got royally stuck. What is impressive is that he happened to have a winch and the tools needed to pull himself out with the help of a tree and someone who stopped to offer assistance. Sarah handled it all like a champ. As long as her music was still playing, she was happy. Our second bit of preparation that served them well was that I packed Sarah’s meds in case for some reason they needed to stay the night. That meant when they stopped for a late dinner she could have her meds instead of needing to wait until 11pm when they got home. We will now always have one dose of her meds in our Just-In-Case bag that goes everywhere she goes.
Meanwhile, I had a relaxed day of reading, puttering around the house, and seeing some friends at a coffee shop. Whew! Glad that ended ok!
May all of your adventures end well.
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