Getting started

I started this post in March and then I had Melanie help me learn how to navigate the blog a bit. So now that we are in August I am getting around to publishing this post. Hope you all had a better day than I did.

So I am finally hoping on the band wagon and making an attempt at blogging. I have never been one to keep a journal so maybe this can, in some way make up for that shortcoming. there have been many great days and adventures that are now lost even to my own memory I have no idea how long they will remain in this media but at least for a short time a memory has been shared.

Today has been typical of our own family circus, it at least started out better than in recent days. No one awoke sick today and everyone who is in school was able to go and thank goodness we didn't have to wash all of the linens yet again. Things were in fact going very smooth up until Julie found the note reminding us that the headstart bus would not be running this afternoon. This meant that Ben and our two nieces were sitting at the school an hour after class let out waiting for me to pick them up. Julie had to leave for work just as I was returning home with the children. At 3:30 I was supposed to pick up Zack and Gloria at the bus stop so they wouldn't have to wade threw the mud. At 4:30 I finally remember I am supposed to pick them up. I go out to start my Jimmy, and it decides not to play along, fortunately I still have my truck.

I rush over pick up the kids drive them back home. I should mention that I started cooking dinner just before so I had to rush in to make sure I didn't burn down the house. Then back outside I pop the hood of both vehicles and jump start the Jimmy. Thinking that it might not hurt to just leave the two connected and running to recharge the battery I go back in and finish cooking dinner. At 5:10 the babysitter arrives. I walk her threw the usual instructions and I leave for work.

I back around and started pulling out of the yard and the engine dies, I turn the key and with absolutely no response. I leave the Jimmy parked in the middle of the street walk over to my truck and use it to push the jimmy back into the yard. I quickly transfer all my bags from one vehicle to the other ( I have a lot of bags I have a 24 hour ambulance shift followed by a 2 1/2 hour math class tomorrow night so to be ready for anything I have a lot of junk) with everything transferred, I'm off to work, well sort of. My poor old truck as trusty as it is has a short somewhere in the tail lights so if I am traveling in the day its no problem but at night no one coming up behind me can see me and I am in no mood for a ticket.

10 minuets latter I arrive at my mom and dads to barrow and yet again transfer all of my junk to a 3rd vehicle. Now I am finally on my way to work.

Just as I am coming into view of the ambulance station the ambulance pulls out and takes off on a run the poor lady I am to relive was not a happy person when I caught up with them at the hospital an hour later.

I can't wait to find out how Julies day went.