So, I have to tell you this set of circumstances because it is pretty funny.
Friday, we left our house in the good car (we have an older car that my husband drives) to go to Kentucky with the kids to see grandmother and teach a workshop. As we were leaving town we stopped to get some coffee at Starbucks. You need to know it was pretty cold, around 40 degrees. While in the parking lot my daughter rolled down her window, and guess what? It wouldn’t roll back up. Since both kids had a nice little cold, we couldn’t really drive an hour and a half with the back window down.
We headed back home to unload the car and switch. All the while very thankful for this car that I frequently joke about. It got us home and back very nicely.
Fast forward to this afternoon. I go to pick up my husband in our older car, while the newer car is in the shop until tomorrow morning, getting the window fixed. On the drive home after picking him up, the tire on the older car goes flat. Insert laughter.
Thank goodness, we were literally about one mile from the house and he was with us. He gets out to change the tire and the spare is flat, and the jack is all rusted. Insert more laughter.
I tell you this, because I am so thankful for my positive and uplifting husband. He makes lots of lemonade out of lemons every day. I love him dearly, and we laughed out loud as we called a neighbor to come pick us up.
Had a week like this? I want to encourage you to try to find the silver lining, I promise there always is one!
Wish I had paid attention sooner to the workshop schedule. I live about 20 minutes from Hopkinsville and would have loved to have been at the class this weekend!
well darn i am in hopkinsville and i didnt even know you were going to be here! would have loved to have come to it!
Sounds like my Friday last week… We normally take our dog to doggie daycare on Friday’s, but this week we opted not to. Around mid-afternoon on Friday I somehow got it in my head that I had to pick up Owen from doggie daycare that evening by 7pm… I had a lot of running around to do before I was supposed to pick him up. So, like a mad woman I ran my errands and rushed through traffic to pick up Owen by the 7pm deadline (or I would have had to pay for boarding for the night). I thought that it was kind of odd that I hadn’t gotten a phone call from doggie daycare wondering where I was, I normally get those types of calls when I’m running late. Anywho, I show up to daycare only to find out that I didn’t actually drop Owen off at daycare that morning… Crap (slap my forhead)! I then had to rush home to let my poor doggie out. Amazingly Owen didn’t make a single mess, but boy was he glad to see me! The silver lining – one less day of daycare that I had to pay for that week!
Kelly, I have a many a days like this one. Its either laugh, cry, cuss (which I prefer not to do) or go insane. So, laughter is always the best. Hope you get your “good” car back soon. BTW … my husband drives a “Sanford”! That is the name for his truck, which reminds you of Sanford and Son. Ha Ha!
Wow! I think it’s awesome that you can take a step back and laugh despite crummy circumstances. It’s great to have a family who can remind you that we lead very blessed lives. 🙂
i can picture it now! i love that you both stay positive in your own ways. and it sets a great example for the kids.
HA! Glad you can laugh and appreciate your husb!
We have had one of those weeks too, and there definitely was a silver lining. A while back, maybe a year or so, my husband was having a check up and the doc said he had some bulging discs in his back. they weren’t bothering him, so he didnt think much of it. well about two weeks ago we when got to work he started having pains shooting down his back and both arms. he had to leave school and go see a doctor, and he said that two discs had herniated. they were trying to do traction and spinal decompression for about a week and it hadnt made much progress, and then he got rear-ended by some little old man in a BMW. his car wasn’t damaged at all but he was hurting alot worse and so he went back in for another exam and the doc said it was definitely worsened. He was in so much pain he was missing work, and he is already over his allowed days for the whole school year because he missed for his sisters open heart surgery, and then the next month he got a bleeding ulcer, and now this. We were barely able to stay afloat with his salary as it is. So the doctor contacts the other drivers insurance, who totally admitted he was at fault and are more than happy to pay his medical bills since there are no car repairs. Our insurance was going to make him go through 2 more weeks of traction before they would pay for anything else, but since the other driver’s insurance is now covering the treatment, the doctor went ahead and gave my husband a cortisone shot yesterday and he is already feeling much better. We have no more bills, and he’s out of pain much sooner, because he was in an accident. You never know how God will use things.