A new week

Well, our week started out with a bang! First off, L took swimmer son to his swim practice at 5:30 and then went on to his first day of his new contract job. Younger daughter and I left about 7:10 and put his school stuff in the car and in so doing, set off the car alarm somehow... I didn't know how to shut it off so I am sure the neighbors were thrilled with me. Finally I must have pushed the right button as it stopped and we went on our way. Well, when we picked him up, he opened the door and it went off again, only this time the car turned off and I couldn't turn it back on. Oh my, I envisioned a bad day ahead and what was I to do? Finally, I figured out which button I'd pushed the last time and we zipped off to school. This time he decided to go out the other door in order to not have the same issue. So of course it went off when he opened the other door. I didn't realize he was actually getting out because I was so embarrassed and trying to get it to turn off that I let the car keep going and he is half out of the car yelling. He let me know that I ran over his foot! Oh, dear! It was a miracle that he was ok....but I did kind of worry about his poor foot all day.

So, as I left the school parking lot I looked down and the car "low gas" light was on. However, the gas tank was just under half full, but not being familiar with the car I decided I'd better stop and get some gas. After filling it up the light stayed on for about 3 miles, halfway to work. Then it turned off, so not sure what the deal was.

The day was crazy hectic at work, but after running over my baby's foot everything else seemed to be less bothersome. Later that evening of course he let me know he told EVERYBODY about my running over his foot, but there wasn't anything wrong at all with it. Thank the Lord!

The biggest new obstacle was what to do with his swim paraphernalia that was in my car in the morning but needed to be either at home or in his sister's car for his afternoon practice. So the first day I brought it home at lunch and checked on animals.

After work I went to the moms of teens group at the church and helped get ready for Christmas decorating. There is a big decorating party on Saturday, but a lot of work was needed getting the various items in order. I was so tired that I talked to all the kids and hubby (who ended up working 10 hours on his first day!) and then fell asleep exhausted before 10:30. This is practically unheard of for me.