eastowners

Current Mood: Martini Mood

So, this is a picture of my car (not my exact car, but my car type) - I love this stupid car.  It’s the grocery getter station wagon I never thought I’d want.  But alas, with a husband, a child, a dog, and places to go - I needed a big car to haul our stuff.  And haul she does.  I have packed more stuff in this car than ever thought possible.  For the most part she is reliable, and gets me around town and accross the state, and sometimes even accross the country.  That is until today when she couldn’t even get me accross town.  Once again my brakes went out.  I was on my way to take Clare to school, and I got close to half way there when my brakes went out - yet again.  UGH!  I called Brad, he had a meeting this afternoon so he was unable to help me out.  I made my way home, I had enough brakes to get me there without dieing.  Unforturnatley I had to keep Clare home from school with no way to get her there.  I felt like such a failure as a mom, not able to get my own child to school for an education.  I ate the remaining 4 sugar cookies with chocolate frosting in a binge to help me feel better - unfoturtunatley it didn’t work.  Instead I settled for a nap on the couch while Clare watched some tv upstairs.  We did do something educational though by working on our “Math Box” activities. 

The “Math Box” is good and bad wrapped into one.  Every month the teacher sends home a sheet of some activities to do at home with parents, and they have to return the calendar with 10 activities or more written on it.  I think it’s great to have a clue as to what they are working on at school, and to be able to help Clare with improving her math skills, but when things get busy around here I tend to forget about the “Math Box”.  Which means we always seem to cram in those activities at the last minute.   Ah well, with any luck we’ll improve in our motivation and get them done earlier in the month.

Now we just need to fix my stupid car.  The part is in, tomorrow I’ll get it, and with any luck I’ll be back on the road by the end of the week.  Happy Freakin’ Monday!