Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Chapters 16-19

These next chapters are filled with fun and excitment. After the fair and everything that happened there Taylor wanted to take Denise out on a date, with just the two of them and she accepts as long as Kyle is able to have someone to watch over him. Taylor's mom is going to show up after Kyle has already gone to bed to watch over him, in case he wakes up. The two of them leave and have a great time, in which they hold hands and talk. The next few days Taylor is called out on an emergency and it is at a bridge where a semi has hit a car and they are both leaning over the bridge, the bridge leads down to a river. Taylor goes out on the fire departments ladder to try and save the person stuck inside the vehicle. He has to make a lifr or death decesion and decides to throw the person onto the ladder before the vehicles fall down into the river. Taylor jumps into the river and just as he makes it down to the water and moves out of the way the vehicles come crashing down after him. After all the comotion has subsides Taylor goes home to take a shower and try to slepp, when he is unable ot do that he goes to the diner where Denise works to talk it over with her. She has to wait til she closes up to talk and they decide to go to her house to put Kyle to bed. Once Kyle is in bed Taylor tels his story and falls asleep right there on her couch. She leaves him go, and goes to her own bed to sleep.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Chapters 13-16

Kyle and Denise both show up to the fair, and sit by Taylors mom to watch him play baseball. The two teams are the volunteer fire department, and the police. Whoever loses has to give the library five hundred dollars. The whole time the two teams were neck and neck and the police ended up winning. Taylor goes over to say hello to Denise and his mother, they all end up going over to eat after the fair, and Kyle runs off to play on the playground. Taylors mom is taking Denise around to meet the rest of the people in the group, and as she keeps an eye on Kyle she notices that Taylor and Kyle are both playing catch. She goes over to watch and notices that he is actually throwing pretty good, and that he tries with all his might to throw them directly at Taylor. Denise says that its getting late and she has to go get ready for work, Taylor offers to drive the two of them home, and she agrees, on the way home Taylor lets Kyle steer as he drives, and Kyle is now in love wiht him. Denise asks Taylor if he wants to come in for a drink of ice tea, and he accepts, wishing that he could just kiss her. Denise gets Kyle ready for a bath and go back to talk to Taylor they both decide to go out on a date the following evening. After Taylor leaves Denise feels that everything is going smoothly and enjoys having Taylor around!

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Chapters 11-13

Kyle's mom is now beginning to feel the aftermath of the accident with bills, time, and injury. The bills are beginning to add up from the hospital bill, and the towing bill to take her car away, and along with the other bills that are normally there. Also, without a car she has to rely on another coworker to drive her to work. When her and Kyle went to the grocery store they had to ride on a bike the whole way there, all of a sudden Taylor the man that found Kyle was there and offered to take them home, she denied but felt an attraction toward him, so he offered to take their groceries home, and she gladly accepted that. Then Taylors mom comes over to the house with Kyle to talk about how they are doing, she states that there is a fair coming up and that Taylor will be playing volleyball with the other firemen and that they should come watch, basically she is trying to set the two of them up!

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Chapter 6-11

These next few chapter are full of surprises, after Kyle's mom gets taken to the emergency room she is there without any answers about the searching. All the while the search men are looking for him, and not finding anything. When all of a sudden the man that found the car says that they need to turn around and go in the opposite direction of the storm, because that's what the little boy would have done. He wouldn't have wanted to watch the lightening so they turn around, and he remembers that there are duck blinds in the far distance, so he begins to look in them to see if he can find Kyle. He radios to the other search men to look throughout the rest of them, the man goes into one of them and finally finds him, Kyle is cold and wet but in good shape. After radio over to the other search crew that he has been found they all begin to head back to thier cars. All the while Kyle's mom is sitting in her hospital room still shaken up from thewreckand she has no idea what is going on. After the EMS worker (the one that found the wreckage) his mom says the new on the tv about it and decided to see if the mom needed anyting, she sneaks into her room after visiting hours to check on her, she notices that she knows her from the library that she works in. They get to talking when the finally get the news that he is okay they go out to meet him.

Friday, July 8, 2011

The Rescue Chapter 1-6

A mother and her four year old son are traveling home after visiting a doctor when a storm picks up as they are making thier way home. They stop for gas before they run out, and the mother waits in line eagerly waiting to stay ahead of the storm. She is standing in front of a mother and her son who are fighting over something that he wants from the store, but she wont let him have it. The mother of the loud son says to her how lucky she is to have a son who is quite and sit beside her without saying a word. After she gets her son Kyle in the car she begins to tear up because he is not like other kids his age, he doesn't talk and has the mind of a two year old, and that is why they were at the doctor today. While on the way home she notices something ahead on the road and tries to slow down, but because of the rain her car goes out of control and she rolls her car. She is badly beaten up and is knocked unconcious, when she finally comes to a man is outside her car trying to talk to her, he is a EMS and when she comes through she notices that her son is missing out the back of his seat. They both end up searching for him, but wiht one problem, he won't answer when somebody calls for his name. She ends up having to go to emergency room because of big gash in her head and they stay to keep looking for her son.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Chapters 16-End

Throuhgout these final chapters Don now begins to understand why he was brought back on this earth and what his purpose is. He now goes and talks to people who have had the fixator put on thier body, becaue he knows what it's like and can understand what their going through. He helps the people understand that they will get through what they are going through and that they will be able to walk again. This book was amazing and helps me to realize that life can be taken just like that, and that each day is a gift and should be treated like one.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Chapter 13-16

Throughout these chapters Don has overcome many things. When he was first in the accident, another guy named Dick was there to pray for him and to hold his hand. Now Don finds out that Dick could never reach his hand, because it was clear at the front and Dick could not have reached it unless he had somehow gotten into the mangled car. Dick had previously died from a heart attack so his wife is telling Don this after the fact. She says that Dick was behind the car and had his hand on Don's shoulder, so Don begins to questions her thinking and has no idea what to think. They both decide that the one holding his hand was in fact God, and this made Don feel so much better in that his friend and God was with him on that very day. Don continues to tell his story and has changed many people's lives because of it, so he finally learns of his true reason why God has put him back on the Earth. Throughout his recovery Don's three children had to live with other people becuase there was so much going on for them to care for thier own children. The boy twins went to live with thier grandparents, and their daughter went to live with soem family friends. Don has a recollection of when his father came to visit him, while in the beginning, and his father said that if he could he would gladly take his place for him.