Ain't Family Great

The Singer called last night around 8, stressed to the max.  "Mom, I just can't spend another night in the dorm with all those people around all the time."  Both my daughters desperately need alone time.  The Singer's need is striking as she needs the boisterous social time just as much (The Imp is much less the social butterfly so her need isn't surprising.  The Singer is such a social butterfly, cheerleader type, that people don't realize how precious and necessary that time is to her.)
Her desperation carrying through the phone in her tone, "The library is closing, there's nowhere to go, except a cafe in Charlotte but it's suppose to snow tonight and I don't want to get caught in the snow."  (Ah, a new appreciation of the trials of driving in the snow after her trip back to NC in January...now the forecast was for ONE inch of snow...I wasn't too worried, but just listened.)
First I stayed calm.  Asked her to check out the hour by hour forecast (when exactly was it suppose to start snowing, etc.).  Then I told her to call her uncle (my brother) who is but 20 minutes from her, and ask to crash in their spare bedroom.  I was praying this wouldn't be an imposition on them.  Knowing the generosity of both my brother and his wife, I was sure they'd open their home, and knowing the Singer truly wanted to be alone, I figured her presence wouldn't be disruptive.
Family came through.  Within minutes the Singer was heading off to their house.  I texted her this morning asking how it went.  "Blissful...I got 8 beautiful hours of sleep and got to have a pop tart with Andrew this morning" (Andrew is 5 and probably the cutest kid alive).  I'm so glad she got the sleep.  Still recovering from the flu last week, I've been trying to push the sleep thing on her without being to 'momish'. 

What a great relief to know she has family that will take her in...not just in an emergency..but just to be nice. 
Family is GREAT.