Just Simply Holly

It’s one of those “if only I’d have known” mornings. This past week has been kind of rough because my husband has worked a TON of hours even though he had Monday and Tuesday off for the holiday. His job is about an hour from home and he had two days this week that he pulled double (16 hour) shifts, came home to eat, shower and sleep a few hours, then turn around and go back to work. When my hubby got out of work yesterday he was told to get some rest and enjoy two days off because things were going to be crazy come January 2nd. We were both looking forward to him being home for a couple of days and he was looking forward to getting some much needed rest. But we both got our hopes worked up only to have him get called in this morning and be told that they have to correct a HUGE mistake that another crew made and they’ll be working around the clock until it is fixed/finished. I’m just bummed because here it is, New Years Eve, and it looks like it will be just the kids and I. I am thankful that he has this job and that the hours are FINALLY picking up after several months of hours so sporadic that we were struggling just to put food on the table. I JUST MISS MY MAN! And HOW weird is this? I no more than typed that I missed him and he called me to let me know he made it to work…LOL!

Now, onto something that is VERY upsetting! They came across the 11:00 news last night with a breaking story. There had been an accident on one of the local expressways involving a drunk driver and a family. As of that time they were reporting 3 fatalities and very few details. This morning the full details are available and it’s sickening! A family of 8 from Maryland was on their way home from spending the holidays with family in Michigan. A 24 year old male was drunk and going the wrong way down the expressway and hit the family’s van shearing off the passenger side of the vehicle. In the horrific aftermath it was discovered that a 36 year old mother, two 10 year olds, a 7 year old and a 6 month old were immediately killed. The 36 year old father and two 8 year old children are currently hospitalized in critical condition. A family has been destroyed because an IDIOT who was drunk got behind the wheel. The most sickening thing is that the idiot drunk driver suffered only minor injuries. How many more innocent people are going to have to lose their lives before the idiots that choose to drink and drive learn how STUPID their decision to do this is? PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE! No, I don’t know anyone involved in this accident, but I can’t help but mourn the innocent lives that were lost!