Where's the Fire?

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Well, this has been quite a week.  Duke had his first job (more on that later), our car broke down on the side of the road on the way to pick him up from school, and that was all by Wednesday morning.

The van had been making an odd noise for a while.  It wasn't anything too terrible, so I kept waiting until I could justify getting an oil change to have it checked out.  (One of the major disadvantages to having a car repair place that is on the other side of the world.)  Finally yesterday I figured it was time and called to set up an appointment to take it in on Monday for an oil change and to have the noise checked out.  Less than 3 hours later, I was on the side of the road, the smell of burnt rubber strong in the air, waiting for a tow truck with a baby in the back.  The good thing that came out of that was now we have a car place that we trust that's close by.  I have also stocked the diaper bag with a cup for water and a snack should we find ourselves indisposed again.  Next time I hear something funny, I won't have to wait until the regularly scheduled oil change to get it checked out.

Lilly and I were on the side of the road, waiting for my mom, who had picked up Duke, to come and get us too.  As I put her in mom's car, I asked if we could roll the windows up because her scalp was starting to look as red as her hair.  I made some comment like "Lilly's getting burnt".  Duke shouts out, "BABY LILLY'S ON FIRE!"