Ryan has been home now from the hospital for almost two weeks. She had a successful appendectomy and after a little more than a week in the hospital was allowed to finally come home. It was two weeks ago Wednesday and I was standing at the back of the school freezing for a fire drill when Brandy and Ryan came racing by on the back of Tony’s snowmobile. I didn’t even see them, though. Students told me they had just raced by. I’ve gotten so used to snowmobiles speeding by that I didn’t even look up for this one. Brandy told me later that they had both waved, but I completely missed it.
This was one Thanksgiving, though, that we all had a lot to be thankful for. We had had a scare, but Ryan was safe and healthy. Dakotah and I ended up spending Thanksgiving day at the school with other teachers, and then the Friday after Thanksgiving we had dinner together with Kate, which was very nice. It was a great weekend really once we knew for sure that Ryan was going to be okay. Koda and I watched all three parts of Back to the Future together, and she liked them a lot. Then we watched all three again with the commentary on. This will go down as a Thanksgiving that I will always remember well and look back upon fondly.
Now we’re all looking forward to the two-week holiday break. We’ve got three more days this week after today, and then we get two days off. I’m hoping to rest a little, but also to get a lot done for the dissertation. I feel like I’ve fell behind the last few weeks since Ryan went to the hospital. We’ve been shopping for Christmas early. I bought Brandy a Kindle Fire and since I’m not good at keeping surprises, I gave it to her right away so she could check it out. So far, we’re not impressed as it seems to have issues communicating with the internet at our school. It might work fine, though, once we figure some things out. Its going to be a great break regardless. The time off and rest will be wonderful. And I’ll feel a whole lot better if I get some more work done towards the dissertation.
