An Unexpected Journey

  I was walking up the steps into the school for work when I looked down and gasped.   I didn’t have on any shoes!   How had   I gottten dressed for work and come all the way here with out any shoes?!   Unprepared.   I was unprepared.   Thank goodness it was a dream! In the next dream I was driving home to get my shoes.  I was taking the same old familiar roads, but every time I would get ready to make a turn, I realized there were “One Way” signs.  The roads had changed!  I kept having near wrecks because the once familiar route had completely changed!  The last left turn seemed to be clear until I realized I had turned right onto a railroad track.  Then I saw it.  The oncoming train.  There was no time.  I  turned hard on the wheel of the car and hit the gas to get off the tracks and crashed the vehicle into the woods.  Unprepared.  I was unprepared for the changes. The order of the dreams is...

He came running into the house yelling in such a panicked voice that before my brain could process the words, my heart had processed the anguish, and I thought someone was dead.  Eliana and I were snuggled up on the couch in our PJ’s reading a book while Cameron and the other three were outside.  The big girls were riding their bikes and trying to get that last bit of energy out before the sun sank into the horizon.  Suddenly he burst through the back door and for just a split second the horror of another day when there was panic exactly 10 years ago today flooded my soul like a tidal wave.  I am sure that same wave had washed over him just minutes before. Our road had just been repaved that morning, and there was still gravel left on the edges.  When Abby turned her bike into our driveway, she lost her balance and fell in just such a way that her permenant front teeth hit the concrete lip on the end of the driveway.  Her two front teeth were literally shat...