One of those days

I knew it was going to be one of those days. I hadn't started my car in several days as my husband had been home and we had been using his car. Of course, the day I needed my car it had been down below zero and I had a few errands to run starting about 3:00 pm. So at 2:40 I dutifully went out to start my car. Naturally, it did not start. After setting off the security alarm (flashing lights and a kill switch) and not being able to deactivate said alarm, I knew I was in for an interesting afternoon. I dutifully hooked up the battery charger and immediately began working on Plan B.

Thankfully my husbands 3:00 pm meeting was in town. I smiled nicely and batted my eyes at him and offered to start his car, drop him off at his meeting and he agreed. From that point I took my older son to his dr appointment, went to the library to pick up my book and then returned to the clinic to wait. My husband showed up frozen. His meeting had ended early so he walked over. I explained I would have gone to get him had he just called. He smiled and explained that he didn't realize it was so cold. It was now 10 degrees above zero outside.

After dropping my son off at the house, I took my husband to meet a carpool at his next meeting, breezed through our local grocery store and made a beeline to the Girl Scout awards ceremony/potluck dinner. I was just in time. That lasted til 5:45 PM. I took my now feeling crummy (tummy ache and head ache) girl scout home to be with my feeling crummy son and proceeded to our local Youth Center to stand in for my director son who was home lying on the couch with his own tummy ache due to another cause).

At this point my younger son told me a friend had called and NEEDED me to call back by 6:00 PM. I frantically grabbed the phone and dialed as I was changing shoes. After explaining why I couldn't talk and what I had needed I hung up and drove to the Youth Center. Throwing 2 pizza's in the already heating oven I took a deep breath and began my volunteer job for the next hour and 10 minutes.

At long last the other volunteers (who had been frantically running between the Youth Center and a Local High School basket ball game where they were in the band) returned and another volunteer so I was able to get home to my sick daughter and her older brother.

I haven't bothered to try my car yet today, its barely above zero and I don't want to be disappointed. I am content with the sunshine streaming through my windows and my too sick to go to school in case I can't pick her up if she vomits daughter, playing in the background.