happiness
Happyt 2013!
Is it just me, or has everyone else had trouble getting on LJ for the past couple of weeks? It's been hit-and-miss, at best.
My year got off to a discouraging start. Thursday night I picked up Alpha Son from the movie theater when he got off work. We ran into the nearby grocery, and on the way out of the parking lot, we got into a minor car accident. The other driver was at fault - she was in the far right oncoming lane and she turned left all the way across all four lanes and we t-boned her car. My front end is all crunched up, but she has good insurance. I told the officer at the scene to cancel the ambulance call because I thought I was fine. I knew immediately I had sprained my wrist - the same one I broke in a car accident a few years ago - and maybe hurt my neck a little. No big deal. I expected to be sore for a couple of days, but was pleasantly surprised to wake up Friday morning with no unusual aches or pains. My good luck was short-lived, however, and I woke up this morning feeling like I'd been run over by a bus in the night. My back was completely seized up and has remained so all day. Bummer. BUT, the good news is that I was too uncomfortable to sit at the dinner table, so I am in my room, typing this, while my kids are all at the kitchen table. I'm sitting here, feeling incredibly lucky. I can hear my two sons' deep man-voices, and my adolescent daughter with her musical giggles and newly alto voice and beginner's sarcasm. They're bickering; teasing each other and half-heartedly arguing and laughing too hard to eat. It's amazing to me to think of them as the infants and rosy-cheeked sweethearts they were when they were little, and then to consider that each of them has grown up into a full and complete human, separate from me in all things. They own their own thoughts and actions. They are (mostly) kind and thoughtful, intelligent, resourceful, and sensitive, and I have done a Very Good Job. : )
Is it just me, or has everyone else had trouble getting on LJ for the past couple of weeks? It's been hit-and-miss, at best.
My year got off to a discouraging start. Thursday night I picked up Alpha Son from the movie theater when he got off work. We ran into the nearby grocery, and on the way out of the parking lot, we got into a minor car accident. The other driver was at fault - she was in the far right oncoming lane and she turned left all the way across all four lanes and we t-boned her car. My front end is all crunched up, but she has good insurance. I told the officer at the scene to cancel the ambulance call because I thought I was fine. I knew immediately I had sprained my wrist - the same one I broke in a car accident a few years ago - and maybe hurt my neck a little. No big deal. I expected to be sore for a couple of days, but was pleasantly surprised to wake up Friday morning with no unusual aches or pains. My good luck was short-lived, however, and I woke up this morning feeling like I'd been run over by a bus in the night. My back was completely seized up and has remained so all day. Bummer. BUT, the good news is that I was too uncomfortable to sit at the dinner table, so I am in my room, typing this, while my kids are all at the kitchen table. I'm sitting here, feeling incredibly lucky. I can hear my two sons' deep man-voices, and my adolescent daughter with her musical giggles and newly alto voice and beginner's sarcasm. They're bickering; teasing each other and half-heartedly arguing and laughing too hard to eat. It's amazing to me to think of them as the infants and rosy-cheeked sweethearts they were when they were little, and then to consider that each of them has grown up into a full and complete human, separate from me in all things. They own their own thoughts and actions. They are (mostly) kind and thoughtful, intelligent, resourceful, and sensitive, and I have done a Very Good Job. : )