It's A Family Thing
Posted February 03 2012
The kids got sick this past weekend—real sick, and my poor wife was alone with them.
I was on the road heading through the snowy mountain pass to the Oregon coast when I got a text that read, “Don’t stay long. Sid and Oona are throwing up.”
“What?” I replied. Tension began to build in me. I looked over at Rick who also has two kids that were recently sick.
“Yes.” She replied.
I was stuck. Rick was driving and we were over an hour away. There was nothing I could do. Helpless, knowing they are all suffering at once; at that moment I had to turn around. Rick, who was driving, was ready for the giant U Turn, but my wife said, “no”.
Wow, a sacrifice to love and family. She’s home, both kids puking, she’s feeling queasy and I get to go have a good time. Not possible. If it were just me, no question I would have been home-it wasn’t, and Rick was hurting for a surf. Liz knew, as she most often does, that we have to take care of ourselves as well as our family. She also knows that there are some things you just can’t shake off.
When I finally walked through the door I felt complete knowing I could take care of everyone; but Liz, the supermom and superwife, was doing just fine without me.
I needed them, needed to know that everyone was OK, more than they needed me. Is that what family feels like? To me it does.
What about your stories or comments about the importance of family in your life?
Thanks to My Silly Monkeys for the image.
Comments
1 commentYehia
May 04 2012 at 03:55AMrick is doing his job my opinion is that rick is very dsoiapisnted in the slp ..like most colour blind lucians he expected kenny to change the old style of politics in stlucia .if rick was up for elections this time around he would win big time .like juck bois he expresses what 65% of lucians think ..juck bois 34% cocaine and crime has taken over stlucia .we have no leader trying to educate or motivate us positively ..all they want us to do is keep on fighting one another for their selfish political gains .talking race and white man while they drunk the white man booze brutaliseing the local black rasta man for weed and enjoying the booze..tobacco and cocaine profits diretly or indirectly through their white man ruled system hypocracy ..rick damn right .when will we as exslaves start useing our educated brains to think for our self kill them hang them ..fight down .now race war ..our fix for the sick situation thats faceing our beloved helen ..some one who is sane has to speak up and try to change oue selfdestructive way of thinking ..some one has to stan up for truth .equal rights and justice in this obeah thinking ,candle lighting idiots who refuse to change the mad way they do things expecting good results ..rick damn right we call our citizens black and ugly when it convienient ..do anything for money ,includeing selling our legal souls to the very white man we use to divde the masses ..ho he so blak onrrr why he en take his mother colour .jesus take my sins away and make me white as snow .some of our favorite pharses ..we so darn stupid we refuse to see past red yellow or green when it comes to our future we dowse our brains with booze and chicken grease instead of thinking positively and unselfishly ..rick damn right .its time we wake up and realise that unless we get a real leader ..nou pwee