Across from the children’s school are two lots with houses and a few out buildings. The properties were purchased by the city to relocate a fire station that has outgrown the land on which it currently resides. Many of us are pleased about this—who wouldn’t want emergency responders right across the street from your child’s school?
The lots have been cleared of trees, but the old houses have remained in place until the construction starts. One day just before Thanksgiving, a series of police cars appeared in front of the lots. They put up signs that an exercise was in progress and officers in SWAT vests showed up and did training for part of the day.
It was exciting. We though it was a good thing to have a place to practice so our police would be trained when or if there was ever a need. A few parents were a bit worried with all the guns around, but school wasn’t interrupted (we are across the street but well-set back from the road).
They did more maneuvers and we watched when we had the chance. Now, the fire department is getting in on the action. Today there were multiple fire trucks and firemen all over the place in front of the school. A very nice fireman I think didn’t even get a chance to be involved in the exercise because he got ambushed by children wanting a fireman’s badge sticker and to ask questions.
The Big Boy Update: My son and I had a discussion about rocket ships. He wanted to know how they went into space. I told him they needed lots of fuel to lift the heavy ship up into the sky. I asked him if he had enough energy to jump into the sky? He did a lot of jumps and came to the conclusion that rocket engines had to be very powerful indeed in order to get off the ground and up into space.
The Tiny Girl Chronicles: A friend of ours was having a conversation with my daughter who had told her when she becomes a mom and the baby comes out, it’s gonna hurt at least a little bit. But that wasn’t going to be until she was older, so that was okay.
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