The car adventure

Today driving home from work I was driving away and my car decided to just stop working.  The engine just decided to turn itself off and I could not convince it to start again.  I eventually gave up and coasted to a stop - thankfully I had already gotten off of 490 and was pretty close to home when it happened.  we pulled over to the side of the road and I called J to come and get us.  Evelyn was in the back getting a little panicky and wanted to get out of the car, though she calmed down a little bit after talking (and me convincing her that the car was not in fact going to catch on fire).  She still was a little nervous and was re-leaved and excited to be in daddy's new car.  William on the meanwhile was getting very cranky and hungry thankfully that waited until I put him in daddy's car.

After J pulled up and was getting Evelyn's car seat in his car a nice gentleman pulled over to see if we needed help.  (he was an off duty law enforcement official - which explains why he stopped).  He asked me a few questions which i deferred to J and told him I really just wanted to get the kids home.  Still I wish I had gotten his name...

After getting home it was a rough evening of Evelyn being a little wound up and William being a little cranky.  I was just getting William down when Grandpa showed up to help.  He thought she was on a sugar high until i told him that she was on a Grandpa high.  it took her some time to calm down though she did enjoy Grandpa reading to her.  her first book was "Go Dog Go" he was three pages in when she said "Wait, I want to show you something".  She searched the book until she found this page

pointed to the broken car and said "this is mommy's car"!

Yup that makes the day almost worth it...