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Mar. 17, 2007
What a day!!!!
I have had my brothers 3 kids here since Wed. (ages 8,5 and 2) in addition to my own. They have been angels and I am enjoying the time with them. We had a snow storm here yesterday. I had to use D.J.'s car because my van is having issues. I ALMOST took out a fence after picking up Brittany at work. Then later on in the day I had to pick up D.J. at Geneva. The weather was snowy the whole way there, but the roads were clear (the other drivers were wacky!) On the way back, about 15 minutes from home, we must have hit a patch of black ice and I slid into the other lane (I was on the highway). When I tried to get control over the car I started spinning and ended up in a ditch (not a deep one - more of just a slope). D.J. said he was praying, I was just thinking that I was going to wreck the poor kid's car - LOL. We missed one of those mile marker thingys by 6 inches. We slid between 2 of them and didn't hit anything! God is so good. We were stuck in mud at that point. I called Dave and then AAA so they could send a tow truck to pull us out. In the mean time, the police came to check on us and told up 2 more cars were off the road ahead (maybe from trying not to hit us, but not sure on that one - no one was hurt - thank God!) The police man was so nice, We ended up with 3 or 4 different ones stopping to check on us and one even tried to push me out of the mud. One of them was kinda mean looking,the rest were friendly. So, the tow truck got us out of the ditch - no damage to D.J.'s car - that we know of. The first policeman came back and said the other drivers were saying it was all my fault cause we were throwing beer cans out the window (he was joking of course) I guess trying to lighten the mood. He didn't even ask for registration or proof of insurance - I must look responsible.  So we got home in one piece only to have to get ready for a family portrait for our church directory. I had about 20 minutes to get me and 7 kids ready to walk out the door to be at the church at 8pm. Luckily Brittany fed the little ones!!! At that point I didn't even care what my kids wore. Aaron was (is) in desperate need of a haircut and I didn't have time to do it. He is looking a bit hippyish (not that he minds). So, Dave drove D.J.'s car and I drove Dave's car. Dave said he was sliding all over the place and said that D.J.'s car should not be driven in the snow until he gets new front tires. ARGH! So, we get to the church and have about 7 or 8 pictures taken, which I was really looking forward to since we havent had one taken of all of us in 10 years. We wanted to get one of Dave and I alone, also (which didn't turn out great - so we didn't buy it) :( . We were looking at the pictures and they were aweful!!! Aaron was not really smiling in any of them (I was ready to smack him). And Cailee was not showing teeth on any - she didn't look natural at all. I was not about to spend over $100 on those pictures. Of course they kept saying that when you have 4 dc in a picture, you can never get them all to smile that great. I didn't realize that Aaron was not smiling cause I was in the picture. So, after I told them I didn't like any of them, they took us back again to take more. This time I told Aaron that if he didn't smile, he was paying for the pictures himself. The salesman when back with us and made sure that everyone was smiling because he knew he wasn't getting a sale if they weren't better. The second set was much better, although I was still a bit disappointed that Aaron needed a haircut. With D.J. being 18, this will probably be the last family portrait we get with all of us (and not additional people). I am being realistic. So, after spending $133 on one big picture (frame included - yipee), we finally got home at 10:15pm. I made dinner (if that is what you want to call it) for Dave, D.J. and me. 6 of the 7 kids were in bed and asleep by 11pm - a miracle. God is good. I am just very thankful that God protected us and that we were all safe (and that I didn't have Ben with me when we went off the road). |
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