It's time to kick it in

What do you do when there is really nothing to do, but wait, watch, hope, pray. I've been eating a lot of white chocolate Reeses peanut butter cups. I know that life can change in a second that one moment you are assembled to have the first ever cooking club dinner. The food is wonderful, but the company and the laughter, it is what we all have missed in the dark Michigan winter. Little Allison who I have known since she dwelled safely in her mother's belly, studying, even during dinner skipping the soup. She later entertains us with stories from the inner sanctum of being a resident and I am overwhelmed with the knowledge I know this amazing woman. I have watched her run and just when you think she cannot win, she digs in deep and surpasses her opponents with fierce determination and a job well done. She left that dinner early with her husband of a little over a year and twenty minutes later hit a patch of ice that would change their life and all those who know them. We all keep waiting for her to kick it in, I know she will. She has to.