First came the baby! Not mine, my gorgeous granddaughter. June 15th. What a day. I had to endure seeing my beautiful daughter take the leap from carefree teen, to Mom. Nine months of incubation, 5 hours from start to finish of labour, and poof, she's now in my shoes. So far she is doing an amazing job.
Two days later the worst thing to ever happen to me (ok it happened to my son), but I had to suffer as a Mom who could not control the situation. If you ask my kids, they will nod enthusiastically that I am a true control freak. My darling boy of 15 yrs decided it was a good idea not to wear a helmet when he went for a bike ride while we were out of the house. Fast forward to my husband and I arriving on scene with the ambulance already there, the boy suffering from one heck of a 360 flip, nasty road rash, and a concussion that caused him to lose 4 hours of memory, and oh ya, 11 power pukes in the back of the ambulance. Lucky for him, there was a head trauma specialist at the hospital up from Southern Ontario and he checked out fine after an overnight for observation at the emerg. He has had two follow ups and one mri, with another scheduled for November. The range of emotion was huge for both of us. I have a hard time accepting the males in my life view that concussions are nothing to worry about. I really thought he was going to die. He has bounced back. Minor headaches, and a whole lot of milking it over the summer. That's fine. His life size tupperware container should be due to arrive soon.
The next thing to eat up my summer was an event I co-chaired for work as a potential huge fundraiser should it be nurtured. I am not a cookie cutter type of employee and love to see opportunity explored. So we developed a brand new vehicle for the Foundation I work for and met with some resistance within the office. That's never a fun thing to endure. But I had a wonderful team of volunteers who worked diligently to see the event become a success. I felt I had a point to prove and I needed to worry over something that would get me out of the house and provide an event that anyone could participate in. We broke just above even and that to me is great. That we got our Foundation's mission out there, people were physically active for an afternoon is truly the best part. Next year it's all gravy!
Now the autumn has alighted in our area and it is making me take note to slow down. My sweet granddaughter is now 3 months old and before you know it will be walking, dancing and having babies of her own. I need to stop and enjoy my family a little longer. I feel a mental health day coming up soon!
