The Ides of January!?

January 15th... To some people today is just another day. Not so long ago to me it was just an average day. On Jan 15th almost one year ago. I got up, I believe I rode with my parents from Loyall to Clear Creek and I went to work at Frakes. It was an average January day. My kiddos were wild- but who wouldn't be when we couldn't go outside because it was so cold? School got out and I started down the hill to meet my parents and ride home with them.

This is the turning point... Right here... Where my January 15 went from average to unforgettable. I was stuck behind an obnoxiously slow red car.  As I was passing Mason's farm I receive a phone call from my brother. I answer the phone and he doesn't say hello the first thing he says is, "are you going to Knoxville with mom and dad?" I say,"noooo... Mom and dad aren't going to Knoxville!?" He says,"haven't you talked to dad?" "No" "oh...ok" insert awkward I've stuck my foot in my mouth pause here "bub what's going on, tell me!" "Sis, they found it in her brain" his voice cracked and I remember nothing else from our conversation. The next thing I remember is sobbing as I keep my eyes on this now not so obnoxiously slow red cars tail lights. I cryed loud sobbing tears, screamed at God, why my mom!? She's done so much for God!? At some point I called my husband.  I'm not sure anything I said was coherent. I sobbed to him-and likely scared the baJesus out of him. I reached Clear Creek and pulled my car in the parking place beside mom and dads Prius, like I always did. I couldn't move. I saw dad get out of the car and walk around to me. I slowly got out- I'm not sure what the complete verbal exchange was outside that car but I let him know I knew and I was coming to Knoxville. He told me mom was really disoriented and that she was confused and that we shouldn't talk about it in the car. I said ok and we got in. That ride to Knoxville I sent a lot of text messages. My boss and classroom aid letting them know I wasn't going to be coming to work the next day. My husband telling him where I was going. Friends asking them to pray for me. I really knew very very little at this point. But I knew a few things: I would never forget January 15th, the news we had received a few short weeks earlier that my moms pet scans had come back completely clear and she was cancer free wasn't true, and that my life was about to change and never be the same.