This Friday one of my new friends here had a pretty major car accident. Unbelievably she walked away from it and so did her 2 year old daughter. I had actually driven past the accident having no idea that I knew the people involved. It was a snowy day and the roads were icy and even though she was doing 20miles an hour under the limit, her car began to skid into the fast lane of the highway. Despite her attempts to correct it the car continued to skid and when it hit the central reservation it then flipped, rolled twice and landed on its side on the other side of the highway. Having seen it, I can hardly believe she was able to crawl into the back of the car, unclip her daughter from her car seat and then both of them climb through the back window. She is very shaken up, understandably, and pretty bruised. But her daughter is nearly better and running around like toddlers do. Myself and the other mums in our group are doing what we can to cook meals for them. But it just reminds us how careful we need to be on the roads here and I'm so glad that we too have got good cars with airbags and good car seats. Praise God for keeping them safe.
So despite that rather distressing news, we've had an ok week. Valentine's Day begun the week but with Lydia deciding to spend the evening crying and staying awake, it wasn't the most romantic night ever. Never mind. Pete also got given two more trips away for work this week. One of which was back to Barrow at the end of this week just gone. The next is tomorrow through to Wednesday in Seattle. Unfortunately that one means he won't be around for Naomi's first day at 'school' on Tuesday. He'll try to call her before she leaves in the morning and when she gets home as Daddy has such an influence on the way Naomi views things. So hopefully she'll still decide that school is a great thing and she'll love it there.
The week has been fairly normal really. Few sniffles in the family but nothing too bad. Yesterday we went to another children's birthday party which was fun. Today we all went to church as usual only to find that the nursery wasn't open due to a lack of volunteers. So whilst Naomi's class was running, Lydia had to stay with us through the service. Thankfully she was well behaved. Pete and I are considering volunteering in the children's ministry now that we're a bit more settled here. We've put our names down so that someone will call to give us information and then we'll pray about it and see if it's something we could do.
This afternoon Pete and Naomi went off sledding again and had lots of fun. We've ended the evening with a Skype call to Grandma and Grandpop which was nice. Pete and I are now going to have a yummy meal and get an early night so we're both ready for the week – me for looking after the girls on my own and getting Naomi started at school. Pete for his travel and meeting in Seattle.
Some parting words for those of you with small children. Please be vigilant on putting those car seat straps on correctly as no matter how careful you are on the road, you never know when an accident may happen. We want all of you to be safe.
I'll leave you with a video of Lydia playing with one of her Christmas presents. You have to shake the rattle to get Winnie the Pooh to move:
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