I'm a homeschool mom of 3 daughters. My aim in life is to glorify God by loving and serving my family, grow personally in my walk with Him, and being a Titus 2 woman to those younger than me. This blog is to share what God is doing in my life and in the life of our homeschool.
Princess is 9 years old . She was born a princess and continues to hold the title. She loves all things girlie and is talented in all things crafty.
Pixie is 7 and a half. She has a passion for truth, loves rocks and shells and has a huge collection of them.
Peanut is 5. She is fun loving, happy all the time and can make anybody laugh.
Sunday, February 25, 2007 - Witness (and other assorted info)
I was a witness to a car accident on Friday. It was a small fender bender, much less serious than the one I was in a couple of weeks ago. It happend right in front of me just before in intersection. The guy who hit the car pulled over into a parking lot, likely expecting the person he hit to follow. Well, he didn't. Instead he opened his car door and swung his feet out and did nothing. The light was still red. I put on my emergency flashers (hoping to keep my kids safe in the car in the middle of traffic) and got out to see if he was ok. When I asked, he said his back hurt and his head hurt and he was moving all around. I told him to keep still but to hit the emergency flashers. I got back in the car and moved it into the center turn lane and then got out again. He wanted me to call 911 but I honestly was a bit shocked. I asked another bystander to call 911. I felt like it was so unnecessary. I had this funny feeling that this guy was faking it. I had this thought that if I called 911 and this guy wasn't really hurt that I would get in trouble. So I made someone else do it. I did call his wife on his phone but left a message instead of talking to her. The emergency team came right away and began helping him. I made my statement and left my contact info with the police man and then was free to go. I am officially a witness, so if a law suit comes of this I just may get called. IT was all just so weird to me because here I was just in a car accident going 20 and hit a stopped car. We were all ok in both cars. My car suffered much damage and we were all ok. Both of these cars looked barely touched and there were no airbags deployed. The bumper was not bent or even scratched. Both cars were moving slowly forward towards a stop light. It was just a bump. I just cannot see how a person could get hurt enough to call 911.
Speaking of court (in a round about way), I have jury duty on Tuesday. I have not done this before. The first time I was called I got out of it by not having child care for the kids. I'll let you know how it goes. I am bringing a book.
If I had mentioned to any of you Northwest bloggers about the Suarez's coming to our homeschool meeting to speak on March 10th, that has been officially cancelled. I was hoping to plan a blogger lunch with them and had arranged to have the church but I figure you all would not be interested in coming now, so it is cancelled too. It's a bummer. Maybe next time.
After two weeks of being a work at home/stay at home/homeschool mom, it became very clear to me that one of these things must go. I tried it and it did not work. Homeschooling is truly a full time job and the kids come first so the job had to go. I have one more busy week and then life gets back to normal. All the gals at TOS are super nice and super understanding. I highly recommend to anyone to work for them if they needed to do something like that.
Well, I guess that is all for this weekend. Have a great week ya'll!
Susan
I am SO glad y'all are okay! I rear-ended a guy last year...he was really faking being injured too (in my opinion). I thought it was absolutely ridiculous that an ambulance came when I had no scratch, he had no ding on his rear bumper and it wasn't even noticeable enough for my baby to be crying!!! But, my insurance was really nice about it and paid him $300 for his "injuries"-- I think they just wanted him to leave them alone. He wanted to do it "off the books" initially and claimed that his mechanic frend said the car would be totalled. We said no way, we'll go the insurance route and have his car (an old PINTO mind you!) inspected by a certified mechanic. He back-pedaled really quickly after that! Too bad I got a ticket for "failure to control speed" even though it was because he slammed his brakes on when the light was green. Grrr...
But I'm over that now. :-) hehehee...
It really is tough doing p/t work (even from home w/flexible hours). When I started my business, I did that with no pay from home for 2 tough years. I almost walked away from the business and my family truly suffered-- I was stressed out ALL the time. But God has blessed and we were able to hire it all out last year! I commend you from seeing your time/energy limitations and putting your family first! I'm sure TOS is a fab place to work-- you couldn't have a more understanding group of like-minded people.
I hope you get some rest, my friend! Gotta go, time for COFFEE.
Don't you just get irked at swindlers? During the hurricanes in Louisiana we met so many folks who were trying to cash in on the horrors down there. There was even a family from our church that filed for food stamps and housing assistance since they had a mobile home in the area that was destroyed - they actually live in a brick house out of harm's way, but didn't have insurance on that rental property. So tacky.
About the job - I'm so glad you know what works & doesn't for you. I have the tendency to totally and completely stress myself out trying to be super-woman before I collapse and start giving up things. Good for you!
I'm glad you and your precious girls weren't injured in the accident. And, I hope you don't get called to do witness-y kinda things! Jury duty is a mixed blessing...it's very interesting to sit on a jury, but childcare can pose a big problem. I sat on a jury 2 years ago for an armed robbery of a Subway...It was an eye-opener...these peoples lives played out in the courtroom. I told my DH I live such a sheltered life...and I'm glad!
Don't fall over in a faint! I'm leaving a comment! I'm going to miss seeing you. Big, fat, bummer.
I'm so glad you and the girls are okay. I was "in" an accident once, a fender bender deal where a semi hit the car in front of it and that car rear ended my van. What made it weird was that we were hit twice because the semi driver didn't see the car between it and me! Interestingly the only damage was to my friends neck who was in the car. Anyway, I only had to talk to the insurance companies on the phone, I never went to court.
