Our Kids

Okay so about 3-4 weeks ago Jason said,

“I want to change the battery in your car, I don’t like the idea of you being stranded on the side of the road with all the girls and batteries last about 2.5 years here in the desert.”

I of course, mocked him because he was going to change the battery and suggested he take it somewhere. He checked it out and said that he could do it but I am sure I planted the seed in his mind that he could not:)

Fast forward to today. I am taking all the girls to school for the first time. All is going well and I decide to take Landis and Pheebs through the Mickey D’s drive thru for an apple pie and iced tea (snack of champions according to the commercials during the Olympics). Then we pull to the back of the lot and turn the car off. Landis and I have a good ol’ time hanging out laughing and spending time together. We feed Phoebe change her diaper and figure we will head back to school early to help clean the classroom. Alas when we turn the key in the ignition all we get is click….click….click Seriously????

Then we remember that we forgot our cell phone, yeah that is right winner winner chicken dinner. So I unload Landis, Moby up Phoebe and we set out to find a pay phone. Did you know that no one has payphones anymore???? The convenience store manager of the ARCO was nice enough to let me use his phone to call Jason. Thank the maker Jason answered because lord knows I would not have answered an unidentified number.

Jason jumped to work as the puppet master and rallied the troops. My mom and dad were called on to rescue the girls from school and then USAA roadside assistance got a jingle to come and rescue me from the MickeyD’s.

Lucky for me Pheebs was happy as a clam in the Moby and Landis entertained herself with a rock family consisting of a mommy rock, daddy rock and baby rock. It was a bit of a technology shock to be sitting there with no phone and no watch and no way to know what time it was because my battery was dead. Talk about sad, lol!

Thanks to all who came to our rescue today and yes Jason will be changing my battery tonight and this time I will choose to be grateful instead of using mockery….lesson learned.