The past few days have been CRAZY. Sometimes you make the best plans, but they all just fall through the cracks.
Sometimes, you get the oil changed 2 days before your big trip (good planning, see?), but when the mechanic brings your van back to the house, he leaves the key in it in such a way that it runs the battery out. Then, when you jump in to take Girl 1 to dance, it won't start, and won't shift into neutral so that you can roll it out of the garage and into a place where you can get another vehicle close to it for a jump. Then, you call your amazing hubby who drives home from softball practice to give you the key to the farm truck. He rolls down the window of his car to hand me the key and the window just falls down into the door. Seriously. Suddenly we have two cars not working properly and the great irony is that one needs to be in the garage overnight because the window won't roll up, but we can't get the one in the garage out. (Just makes you laugh, doesn't it?)
Later, in trying to get the van into neutral, a very essential part of the shifter fell out of the dash and into the floorboard. Oops.
So, we found ourselves with two cars in the shop at once. Our family of five was left with the "farm truck" and lots of evening activities to navigate. As you can see from the picture above, our shuttle service to and from softball practice and 3rd Grade Parent Night was a little different than usual. Thank goodness we don't live too far from the school and ball fields and are all able-bodied enough to do some walking!
The kids, of course, think this is all a very fun adventure. They argued over who would get to ride in the wagon, and Little Boy has LOVED the better view his booster seat wedged between John and I in the truck has afforded him. "Mom, STOP!" he reminds me when the traffic lights turn. I'm about ready for him to be back in the backseat!
But, in all honesty, the car stuff was not even the most emotional or trying stuff the day brought us. It was definitely one of those days when you have to look hard for the positive. But, you know what? It was there. We were able to find things all day long to be thankful for. And, at the end of the day, all you can really do about a day like today is laugh (and maybe have a glass of wine ;). And, I'm so thankful to have such a great partner to laugh with.
So, as the day would have it, we are leaving town and my blogging computer is experiencing "internet connectivity issues." I'd planned to set up several posts to appear each day while we are gone (believe me, there's been a lot going on around here -- including a mystery we're trying to solve), but apparently it will all have to wait until we get back into town and have time to solve my computer issues.
Looks like you'll have to wait until Monday (fingers crossed) to hear about the Mystery of the Chicken Coop Break-In. :)