February 7, 2005

• Looking for the rainbows.

  
  

  This afternoon Rainee was wheezing bad.  I went to grab her meds and remembered they were in the van.  I headed out to the van where it was slushing hard.    Rummaged through the van and couldn't find the meds.   And then remembered, I had brought them into the church with me as she was having a rotten day and I wanted them close at hand.

  
  

  By this time the slush was just plain snow and sticking some.  I groaned.  I could not be without her meds, and if I waited until tomorrow and used a back-up vial I thought I had there was a good possibility we'd be house-bound because of the snow.

  
  

  So I went inside and told my kids the loverly news.  We got to all bundle up all 7 of us and go back to church to get the wretched meds.    Its snowing nasty hard.  I have Jeremiah under a blanky and we head down to the van...which I had already parked at the bottom of the driveway so as to avoid the whole snow-stuck catastrophy we had last time.  (this was before I membered the whole med thing)

  
  

  ANYWAY.   "Hurry, its wet, come on Rainee, come on kaylin."  I'm chirping like a mother-hen trying to speed up this miserable slippery process to the van.   Rainee's shivering cause she's still in her dress.    And I'm just bordering exasperation. 

  
  

  The absolute LAST place I wanted to go to today was back to church.  I'd already created one scene there today (a whole nother blog).

  
  

  Rainee stops and points into the dirt.  "Look mom a rainbow."

  
  

  I took a deep breathe and looked. 

  
  

  Sure enough there was a rainbow.  An oily one from the Geo's chronic oil link.   In Rainee's eyes it was beautiful.

  
  

  I slowed down.    And looked at the rainbows.

  
  

  So in the midst of a family of sick kids, hard decisions to be made about a new church home, and my exhaustion as my husband pulls a double.  

  
  

  I found a rainbow.   

  
  

  Thought I should share. 

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