Ever have one of those horrible days where you just want to crawl back into bed?  My husband has to get up every morning at 2:45am because he works in the medical field and they start to see people at 5am.  Last Thursday morning he blew out his tire on the way to work and had to change the tire to one of those mini donut things in the freezing cold, using his cell phone for light (we live in the country, little to no light and he was lacking his flashlight after our last camping trip)….  The morning started out pretty rough for him but he went on to work and then went later in the day to get a new tire.

We met Kati’s family for a home school thing where we promoted T4L and also where able to do some community service.  We went out to dinner after and really had a good time.  Our families are so great together.  My mom tagged along and it was a great day for us.

When we met up we had two cars and my husband was about 3 minutes ahead of us when we where driving the hour back to our house.  It was about 8pm when we left, not late to some but late for my husband and 3 miles from our home he lost control and totaled his car.  The car ended up on its side (yes the same side that had the BRAND new tire that was not even 5 hours old) and thankfully because of seat belts and air bag he was able to climb out the top of the car (which was the passengers side) and when we arrived behind him he was standing alongside the road.  Overall very scary to see but thankfully the boys were not with him (9 out of 10 times they come back with him; “he has better music”).

So then the search is on and we did end up finding him a great car to take its place.  The conversations about airbags and seat belts have been pretty strong and that is when the boys brought up something they read on T4L about seat belts.  Learning happens everywhere and it is nice when they have something that actually backs up things they read…..