A Day Off

Yesterday, Dave had to go to DC for the day. He ended up having a pretty crazy day which started at 5am. He was supposed to get Amtrak to return to Philly at 3pm, but they ended up staying at the bridge they went to check out longer than expected, then had to wait 2 hours to get a cab to the train station. He finally got home around 8pm and when he tried to start the Jeep in the train station parking lot the key wouldn't turn (happens a lot, but we're usually able to get it to turn after a few tries). So, I get a very frustrated call around 8:30 saying we have to go pick him up (Tyler was waiting up to see Dad). It's only 2 minutes away so no biggie. Tyler and I go to get him and we can't get it to work so we call AAA to get the Jeep towed.

We bring Tyler back home to put him to sleep and Uncle Ryan was tuning skis in the garage so Dave and I were able to go back and wait for the tow truck. The Jeep always has problems in the crappiest weather. It was cold and rainy last night (last problems we had were during a blizzard). Our friend Ryan told us to do this trick with hitting the key, but we had no luck. The tow truck driver finally got there and he hopped out of the truck and said to Dave "Hey, didn't I tow you during a blizzard". Yes sir, that was us...ugh. He asked Dave what was wrong and when Dave told him he said "Oh, I can fix that". He pulled out his Maglite flash light and whacked the key a few times, wiggled it a bit and Viola! she's purring like a kitten! So, there you have it. Tow truck driver saves the day again. We're putting him on speed dial. Now, every time Dave starts his car he just has to hit the key a few times with a hammer, give it a little wiggle and she starts right up - classy I know! I laid in bed this morning and heard him hitting it in the drieway :)

On to today...ahhhhhh Tyler and I had the day off. I took off with intentions to do pretty much nothing except get my gestational diabetes test done and go grocery shopping for Thanksgiving. That's a pretty calm day around here and relaxing was part of my plan. I could get use to this. I think I might be ready to retire :)

Yep, Tyler slept in this morning


I got to sit on the couch, drink coffee and watch the today show


We had our first Bieber watching. My nieces love him. They make my sister play the same song of his over and over in the car - kind of catchy I'll admit. Sometimes I sing Eeny Meeny miny mo lover for days after leaving that car. But after watching him this morning I'm just not sure about the kid. It's gotta be that the girlies think he's cute. Must be the Joey McIntyre of this generation :)


And we set up shop at Quest Diagnostics for an hour and half while I got my tests done. I went with my bag of tricks not knowing how things would go, but Tyler was an angel and entertained everyone in the waiting room. And Nemo saved the day! Here's to being thankful that our kid loves movies and will sit and watch them...it really helps sometimes!