This week I had one of those busy
days that got off to a bad start when I woke up with a headache. A day that starts
with a headache is a bad way to start the day as they usually fell me and I
have no option but to crash. However, it seems a combination of ibuprofen with
effervescent vitamin C and lots of camomile tea is worth remembering as this
time I conquered it! My morning was then filled with chores, including a trip
to the bank and bottle bank, before collecting Ed from school at 10.30 (I know,
hardly worth going in for two hours of ping-pong is it).
I was feeling confident, despite
the prospect of an afternoon in big town for Ed's appointment at the
orthodontist, where there are only two tight parking spaces that may or may not
be free. However I was soon stressed as Ed decided to go for a lunchtime bike
ride and with ten minutes to go before we had to hit the road, he was nowhere
to be seen. I was beginning to worry. Where was he? Was he OK? Where do I
search first? When he appeared without a care in the world he found a rather
frazzled mother who threw him, his lunch, his toothbrush and his guitar into the car all the
while muttering as only a mother can.
Migrating cranes (pic from last year) |
It was then that I experienced
one of those ‘moments’. Something that just made me stop, look, smile and
instantly calm down. A noise overhead made me glance up in time to see a
perfect V of migrating cranes flying over our house. It no longer
mattered that we were a little behind my schedule; I stopped worrying about
being late for the appointment or finding a parking space, I just knew it would
all be fine. And it was; we arrived about a minute before two others, giving me
the pick of the spaces and the orthodontist was pleased with Ed. He did request
an x-ray, so after doing the shopping, we made our way to the x-ray clinic to book an appointment. The cranes weren’t finished with
their good luck, as amazingly, ten minutes later we walked out of the x-ray clinic
with his x-rays in an envelope and still had time for a pre guitar lesson hot chocolate in our favourite café. What
started as a bad day, didn’t turn out too bad, thanks to the cranes.