Dancing Through Life

It was a calm evening at Sonic. I was about to take an order out and the phone rang, before I could make it out the door my manager told me it was for me. When my mom started the conversation with "everything is okay..." my mind went somewhere else. Why is it when we hear a phrase like that we assume the opposite? Lydia and James were still in Joplin and my first thought was that for some reason they would be coming home and they were in an accident... but it was something I couldn't have made up in my own mind. The words "dad" "stroke" and "brain aneurism"(ended up no brain aneurism) were involved. That's about all I got out of that conversation, other than gathering that I should stay somewhere that night.

I went home and got my things ready for school the next day and went to the Killions. It still confuses me why I would choose to go there instead of the comfort of my best friends home... but then again it makes sense. This is when I figured out that they really are my family too.

I walked in and it was really confusing. I told Blaine I was staying with them and he was just like, alright. So we watched TV and worked on homework... then Cathy came. She didn't know about my dad. That was probably one of the worst parts. It was less than two hours after I found out and I had to actually say it out loud to another person who had no idea. How do you get those words out? How did I? I have no idea. After that moment I decided to shower and sleep.

April 3rd, 2006 was over. I had no idea that that day would begin something new in my life and in the life of each person in my family. There were days harder than this one to come, but this day was significant. Three years later I can only say I am thankful for that day and everything that has come with this journey.