Day 4 was supposed to be yesterday but it was a busy, long day (which I'll get to in a second). Day 4's prompt is "What is your dream job?" and I can't go there right now so I'm filling day 4 with the news of yesterday.
My phone starting buzzing at 4:19 pm. I'm not off until 4:30 so I wasn't going to answer it but with all the craziness in our lives I decided I better.
Silence, well more accurately, heavy breathing is what met me on the phone.
"Trey? Trey? What's wrong?"
More heavy breathing. "Mom...I'm okay...but..."
And I knew. I knew what he was going to tell me. A parent knows, especially a parent that has been through it twice before.
So, the car is totalled, the boy is not. Praise the Lord!
I left work at 4:20 and made it to him at about 4:45. We got to the hospital about 5:45 and we were in the Taco Bell drive-thru by 7:15. Not bad.
There was a National Guardsman who had stopped to help with the accident. He was in uniform so all the cars stopped for him when he came to walk me across the busy street so I could FINALLY get to se my boy and make sure he was really okay. He said that Trey was afraid I wasn't paying enough attention to the cars and that I was going to get run over so he came over to walk me across. Trey said that gentleman was super helpful the whole time. I never got his name. He left shortly after I arrived. He wanted to make sure that my kid was okay. Our family is incredibly thankful for him.
Trey feels bad for the woman that he hit. She was almost positive that the police were going to arrest her for a) causing the accident and b) not having her driver's license with her at the time of the accident. They didn't arrest her but she did walk away with a ticket which she won't be able to take Stop Class for because it was an inury accident. Trey said he heard her on the phone and she said "he's going to kill me!" and he was worried that his giantness was frightening to her. I told him that she was probably talking about her husband because that's how wives talk when they've done something like that.
Trey has a bummed up hand. They took x-rays and said there is not an obvious break but that the tendons in his hand are so swollen that it's hard to see for sure right now. He'll wear the hard splint for 2 weeks and we'll go back for more pictures. He won't be able to work so he will have lots of time to work on homework and portfolios during Thanksgiving Break.
And...the accident wasn't his fault so if there had to be an accident, there's that to be thankful for as well.
So maybe I can go "there" about the "dream job." I'm actually living it. I am a mom and I get to be by my kid's sides when they need me to be. I get to be there when don't want me there too but that's for another day. I get to make them dinner and drive them to dance and advocate for them at school meetings and make sure they take all their medicine. That's my real job. It doesn't pay the bills, I'm thankful for the one that does also but I'm incredibly thankful for having the dream job of being a mom to some really amazing kids.
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