A Special Place

It has been way to long since I have written. My senior year has taken over my life! Since I last wrote school has started and Senior year is going much better than Junior year ever did. I love my classes that I am taking of course with exceptions here or there and I am just so thrilled it is my senior year I think I will be able to look past any negative situation in some positive form. Marching band and School are taking up all my free time. There is no time to be messing around, I am at school, doing homework, at a rehearsal, lesson or practicing it seems. So to take a break from the crazy month that it has been my family and I are going to be traveling to our favorite place! We will be spending the weekend in Vermont. There are so many memories there with my family and I feel like a part of me grew up there. Every winter my family would travel up there to ski until skiing became impossible for my family. With Dad having Alpha one of the things he truly loved to do has been taken away. We can't all ski together anymore which sometimes makes me extremly sad to think about and almost makes me feel guilty when I am capable of skiing and doing all the things I love. I know my Dad's one wish in the world is to Ski Killington just one more time even though it seems to be an almost impossible dream. So now Vermont becomes a new place for my family, not a place we ski at but just a place where we go to spend time together and relaxe. I think it brings all of us a sense of comfort when we are there, a sense of everything fitting together, which we often do not feel. For my parents Vermont has been through many stages in their lives. They first learned to ski there and then got a group of people from our area that went to Killington together and then they had me and it took on an even diffrent meaning of now teaching me to ski, and once again Vermont will take on another road.... a road that might still be alittle bit unknown but for now its a comfort to spend time there and to just have all the great memories to share together. I am so excited to spend my weekend "Off" in Vermont, with my family, a place of comfort, that is so beautiful. It give me hope that although my Dad will never be cured of Alpha we will always have a connetion to a place we loved before Alpha and a place that we will love through Alpha. Have hope, believe in the future, and realize that no disease can take over anyones lives.

Hope is still Alive!