Ok, my car has been broken. My 2003 dependable Sunfire just one day decided it didn’t want to start up. I figured it was something minor so I didn’t worry about it. I starting driving our back up vehicle, our mini van. It needs some work too but it was driveable. Until lately. It has started leaking transmission fluid and the tires keep going flat. Let me tell you, I have learned the hard way that being married to someone that can fix anything usually means he hardly has time to fix any of our stuff. Any ways he takes the car to the shop and they say the engine is blown out! Something about a timing chain and a valve thingy. All I know is it needs a new engine and what can I do? So today I get in our van to go pick up the kids. I start driving down the street and I push the gas and the van doesn’t move. I am guessing it has something to do with all the transmission fluid that is all over our driveway. I try to call my husband at work. I call his cell phone at least 20 times with no answer. I even text him. I am freaking out because I am usually at the school before the bell rings waiting for the kids (i have a big fear of kidnappers and strangers). I finally call the main line at his job and the secretary tells me she is not sure if she can reach him because everyone is in some training class. Every single person, even the supervisors. I just burst into tears. Don’t ask me why, it is just one of those days. I try to explain to her that my kids are at school stranded and I need to reach my husband. She actually asks me what do I want him to do and does he have my number. Huh??? Finally I get her to understand that this is an emergency and she says she will try to get him. About 15 to 20 minutes later he calls me and says he is on the way up to the school. But guess what, they are not there! Nannah decides to take her brother and sister to her friend’s house. Someone I have never even met. She happens to call me and say “could you pick us up at so and so’s house”. First of all, who is so and so and why did you leave the school grounds? All kinds of stuff is running through my head. I don’t understand why she left the school at all. All of my kids know the rule is if I am late, go into the school and wait. Very simple. All of the what ifs are what really made my head hurt. I just had to sit and cry and get it all out. Now I feel better. So how was your day? 
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