Thanksgiving

Today was my side of the family’s Thanksgiving get together.  I had a BLAST!!!  I mostly just sat and talked with my twin sisters, but it’s been a long time since I got to do that so it was great.  We talk about the craziest stuff and those around us are often embarrassed but we all laugh a lot!  Those that are near get VERY enlightened about things they really didn’t want to know!  LOL!!

Everyone was shocked out how different the boys and I look.  My cousin’s wife, Kelly, came up to me and was like, so what is your family on?  LOL!  I guess we all look so thin.  Joe has lost over 15 pounds and grew about 4-5 inches since everyone last saw him and his voice is a LOT lower!  I am 40 pounds lighter since everyone last saw me too.  CJ is taller also.  I told everyone it’s just the med’s we are all on because we have ADHD and that medicine makes you not want to eat and it makes my heart-rate increase.

Yesterday, I bought a pair of size 8 jeans and called them my “dream jeans” because I haven’t been a single digit in like forever!  I told Chuck about them and after our shower he said I should try them on and see how far I have to go before they fit.  I told him my thighs probably won’t even fit into them.  Well, I was wrong.  I put them on with no problem and even wore them bowling last night and I wore them all day today!  So, I am not a size 8!!! I have NEVER been a size six, umm, I wonder if I ever will be!?!?!?!  That would be SO COOL!!!!

Well, we all left around 4:45 or so and Chuck had to go to the bathroom REALLY bad so in Albion we stopped at McDonald’s so he could go.  Then, we got on our way.  Then, the scary thing happened.  I am doing about 65, I should have been doing 55 but was speeding.  I am listening to the music and thinking about today and not really paying any attention to my driving.  You know, kind of on auto pilot spacing out kind of thing.  Then I heard, “slow down, this is a bad intersection”  I was like, huh? and looked up and to my left and I saw headlights coming FAST towards the intersection, I SCREAMED and hit the breaks JUST IN TIME to watch this car FLY over the intersection doing over 70 mph.  Their tires actually came off the ground as they LEPT over the intersection, is what Chuck said. He said he NEVER saw the car till after I screamed.  I could see in my mind what WOULD have happened had I NOT slowed down.  The car would have T’-boned us and we would have all died.  CJ was laying down in the back seat and Joe was laying down in the very back of the truck.  There is NO WAY we would have lived through that.

I cried all the way home in shock, not boo hoo’ing but tears just ran down my face all the way home.  I pulled into the driveway and we all just sat there and it took a good 5 minutes before we even spoke and even longer to actually get out of the truck.  I have NEVER had that happen to me before.  That is the intersection that Chuck’s dad got slammed in and almost died and it was the same thing.  A car coming from that side flew right through the stop sign.  It must be hard to see for someone that doesn’t know the road.  The same thing happened again and Chuck came upon that one.  No one died, but they were hurt and their dog died.  Same thing, someone coming from that side flew right threw the stop sign.

I’m still flipping out.  My whole family just about was wiped out in a blink of an eye, had I not heard, “slow down, this is a bad intersection.”  So, I am thankful that I am still alive and that my family is still alive.

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