What a Day!!!

Today was quite the day.  It started at 6:00 am and I am just getting settled in at home.

So Mia stayed the night, and she is by far one of the most ornery girls.  While I was taking a shower this morning and she was "sleeping" downstairs, she busted into my room and yelled at me.  I'm pretty sure I have never been more rattled.  I'm also pretty sure I see more of myself in her every day I am with her.

So we headed up to the office pretty early, with the plans of meeting a few of the moms to make burritos for the children to eat after we got to the mountain.  When we got there, their were already a handful of families waiting at the door.  What I thought was a perfectly organized and stream-lined process, was not.  But I've learned to live with, such is life when working with children.

We ended up taking 23 children, 1 middle school student, and 11 adults up into the mountains.  This is the most we have ever taken up on one day, and thankfully today is over.

We hit tons of traffic, had three students get very car sick through the whole ride up, had to push our reservation back two hours, and had some discipline issues with two girls.  This all however was completely eclipsed for me by my "adrenaline filled mom moment".

We tube for an hour and it was an absolute blast.  About 30 minutes in, one of our newer little boys, Alex asked if I would go down with him.  I of course obliged and we had a blast on two runs.  As we stood on the "magic carpet" that takes us to the top we decided we wanted to get everyone to go together for the last run.  So we rallied as many of our group as we could find and started to group together, their were 26 of us piled together to go down the run with a jump in it.  We put all of the adults by the smallest children, Alex, who is six and tiny was near me, but I was hooked in with a few of the girls who were a little smaller than him. Right as we started down, I noticed the children next to Alex had let him go and he was by himself, so I let go of one of the girls and grabbed his tube.  Right as I grabbed the tube, he went up on the edge of the run and his tube started to flip over.  Before I could react, Alex was completely out of his tube and was about to get ran over by the 20+ people behind us.  I grabbed his arm and threw him on top of me as we raced down to the bottom.  Once we got to the bottom of the hill Alex fell on top of me and started crying, from then on he was attached to my hip.

I still haven't fully processed everything that happened, so look for the rest of the day's recap tomorrow.