{"id":458,"date":"2012-09-21T03:12:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T03:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kandynolesstevens.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2012-09-21T03:12:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T03:12:10","slug":"9-days-to-go-hasta-la-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"9 days to go: Hasta La Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reed’s Birthday Trip to Itasca State Park<\/p><\/div>\n

Sawyer has always had an amazing auditory memory.\u00a0 He can remember entire scenes in movies verbatim after only watching them one time. When Sawyer was about 2 years old, he shared his prowess for movie dialogue during the fellowship time between church and Sunday school.\u00a0 While we were all visiting in the Fellowship Hall, Sawyer and his curly-headed, little self, decided he was gonna blow this pop stand.\u00a0 Instead of just doing that, he had to declare, so that all in attendance that fine Sunday morning, could hear, \u201cHasta La Vista, Babyyyyyy\u201d, and then he spun around and sped off like Speedy Gonzalez.<\/p>\n

Then it began – the penetrating stares from the Evangelicals.\u00a0 You know the stares, which wonder what type of parents would allow a 2-year-old to watch the Terminator movies.\u00a0 I wanted to slink under the table almost as much as the time a few months earlier that Reed asked if everybody was drinking beer at the fellowship time.\u00a0\u00a0 What kind of parents were these people?\u00a0 What really goes on in that household? Beer and R-rated movies!<\/p>\n

Oh wait! They didn\u2019t understand. It wasn\u2019t the Terminator movies (to which I must confess having never seen). Sawyer was just a devout follower of the Rescue Heroes.<\/p>\n

We were the first on our block to have Rescue Heroes.\u00a0 We had the toys, the dress-up clothes, and the movies.\u00a0 Reed and Sawyer played Rescue Heroes for hours on end.\u00a0 We had every hero, vehicle, and their headquarters.\u00a0 As an action figure girl myself, I loved that the heroes could stood up on their ginormous feet.<\/p>\n

Once in the cartoon, a naughty guy (because nobody was ever really bad on the RH \u2013 naughty, hasty, na\u00efve, but never bad) didn\u2019t listen to the warnings that the ski hill was too dangerous. The heroes tried to warn him, but nope, he just pushed right on off that ski lift and yelled, \u201cHasta La Vista, Baby\u201d and skied himself right on into an avalanche.\u00a0 Of course that required the heroes to do what they do \u2013 rescue!\u00a0 And THAT ladies and gentlemen (and judging stare givers) is where Sawyer picked up the phrase at 2-years-old.<\/p>\n

Our love for the Rescue Heroes never really went away.\u00a0 It has carried over into our respect for the real-life everyday heroes who do the jobs that were represented in the cartoons of boyhood yesteryear.\u00a0 Those same people were the ones that spent Reed\u2019s final moments with him.\u00a0 The few details we do know are that despite everything that was going on around them.\u00a0 Reed was loved on by those who attended to him.\u00a0 We know that he was hugged and we know that he was prayed over.\u00a0 For both kindnesses, we are eternally grateful.<\/p>\n

Just like last year, we invited all 27 responding units to the Lakeview Bus Crash to be our special guests at Reed\u2019s Run.\u00a0 Their presence last year was healing to much more than our family.\u00a0 Knowing that in the some of the darkest moments of life, our neighbors, many of whom are volunteers, walk into the storm because that is what they are called to do should make each and every one of us humbly proud.<\/p>\n

Although most responders would say, \u201cI am just doing my job\u201d.\u00a0 I would respectfully rebuff that notion and state that the way they conduct their jobs have influenced many people. \u00a0I know because my family has never taken for granted a speeding ambulance or patrol car or a whirring helicopter since that awful\u00a0day.\u00a0 If you can replace complacency, in\u00a0busy, harried\u00a0lives,\u00a0with reflective prayers of safety and guidance, then I would say you are probably someone to be admired.<\/p>\n

I think there are many that would agree with me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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