My man is one gray-headed, big-hearted, strong-bodied superhero.
He came *home* to Billings for the weekend. He drove, almost 30 hours round trip for a very short weekend because he brought this meat-eating bunch, a steer and a half, all cut and wrapped and transported in freezers.
Within a few minutes of my man's arrival, he met up with Lashae to arrive a few minutes late to the JV football game.
He helped her and our 5 little GRANDS get into the stands, so we could all watch the game together.
We were only there for a few minutes when Maubry yelled, "OUCH," and at the same time, an announcement came over the loudspeaker for everyone to seek shelter as quick as possible. A hail storm had moved in super quickly, and everyone took off, including the players who were running off the field in their helmets to seek shelter in the locker room. We were stuck in the stands with 4 adults and 7 little people. There was no time to grab and run since 2 of the little people can't even hold their own heads and the hail was already hitting hard. My man grabbed the big wool blanket that we have drug around to games for over 25 years and without saying much at all, he posted us adults at the 4 corners and put the blanket over us like a tent and we had all 7 little people huddled right in the middle. It was as if we had run this drill 100 times because it seemed so smooth and smart. We sat under the blanket not knowing how long it would be or how bad it would get. I have seen many cars around here that have major hail damage from previous hail storms, so I can only imagine what it could do to a little head. It passed pretty quickly and then turned to a downpour of rain. We took the opportunity to grab littles and make a break for it. By the time we got to the car, we were all SOAKED
to the bone.
We went back to the house to change and regroup. A few of us came back for the varsity game.
The next morning Charlie took Esther out for a little coffee date before she headed out on her bus for her volleyball game.
He spent the rest of the day organizing our garage; building shelves and hangers for us so we can have easy access to everything, including our snow shovels that he brought.
We then partied it up for Maubry's 6th bday.
We got up the next morning and I headed out for a run. I told Charlie to come find me when he was out and about taking Reece to his school event.....he did just that.
My man left as quick as he arrived.
Within a 48 hour period of time, my man provided shelter (from a hail storm), built us some organization, brought us food to eat, took Esther out to coffee, he picked up and dropped off multiple kids, multiple times, he stopped me from running in circles, he celebrated and cheered for his family as only my man can do.
He left us with everything and everyone in better shape than he found us.
We miss him so much but he makes the time count when he is here.
