Just Simply Holly

My hubby has been trying for the past hour or so trying to get me motivated to head out and get groceries and do the things we need to get done in town.  I’ve just been putzing around dragging my feet.  You’ll read from THIS post from yesterday that we currently don’t have cell phone service.  I worried then that something would happen today and one of the kids’ schools would need to call us and if we weren’t home, they wouldn’t be able to call us, and I was right!

The nurse from my son’s school just called the house telling us that our son was crying uncontrollably.  When she put him on the phone he explained that although he normally leaves his cell phone off during school, something inside him told him he needed to turn it on.  When he did, he had a text message from one of his closest online friends.  It turned out that the message was from their phone, but not from them, it was instead from one of their family members who was sending messages to all the people on my sons friends phone letting them know that his friend had died sometime over night.  My husband is on his way right now to pick our son up from school and I’m sitting here trying to figure out how I help my son deal with this.

No, it’s not the first death he has experienced in his life, but this is the first he has experienced the death of a friend.  My son has been friends with this person online for a couple of years now, they both play the same online game and my son talks about this kid all the time.  He talks about all of the silly things they say and do when they’re playing their game, they’ve exchanged email addresses and do text each other on occasion as well.  I’m hoping that I can find out more from my sons cell phone as to what happened and possibly even reach out to the parents/family of this child that made my son laugh so many times.

But I’m glad I had the sense to stay home because we wouldn’t have been able to go to school and get our son and be there for him while he goes through this!