What a day it was yesterday. I've been looking forward to it for a long time now because I was going to get together with my sister-in-law in Fargo and do some shopping with no kids which doesn't happen much. We picked the day and marked it on our calendars. My other sister-in-law was going to come with me which was going to be fun, especially having someone to ride and chat with. But, in the end she couldn't take the time off from work so I was going to drive there alone. No big deal, I've driven to Fargo too many times to count. We would still have fun on our girls day out. :)
I said goodbye to our kids as I dropped them off at school and I went on my way. Everything was going so smoothly, hardly any cars on the road. I passed Grand Forks and pretty soon there was a construction zone which seems like never ends on that road. I was driving slowly like you're supposed to and there was a big truck in front of me so I couldn't have gone faster anyway. But the truck was so big and wide I couldn't see the narrow lanes and all of a sudden I see he's leading me into an exit. I quickly stopped and so did the car following me there. The lane I was supposed to be in was just a few feet away, with some dry gravel in between so I proceeded to drive across it onto the lane, just as the car behind me did. But I saw something was wrong right away. It felt like I ran over a small bump and right away the front tire went flat and I had to pull over. The car following me just passed me like nothing, probably wondering what happened to me. I pulled over, opened the door and my fear came true - the tire had a huge rip in it. Of course, my spare tire was sitting in our garage at home.
So I sat down in the van and frantically started texting (that is because my phone was totally out of minutes and all I could do was text :)). First I texted Ehren, who was just about to go for a blood test at work. Then I was starting to text my sister-in-law when I see a guy come to the side of the van. He was such a nice man and felt really bad about my tire and wanted to help. He was heading towards Grand Forks so I just asked him to drop me off there so I can wait for my husband or someone. He said he knew a pastor in Grand Forks and that maybe his wife could help me out which was so nice of him. But I said I'll just wait because I was pretty sure Ehren would come fix it for me.
And he did, as soon as he could he left work, grabbed the spare tire and tools and we got the van to Grand Forks to get a new tire on. It was very nice actually to have a little date in the middle of the week and even though it was a big bummer to not have some girl and shopping time, it worked out great and I could not even be upset because something so much worse could have happened. Ehren and I laugh how almost every time I'm going out of town by myself something goes wrong with the van or something. I don't know why that is and why nothing ever happens when I'm with Ehren. Ehren even said he had a thought that morning how something was going to happen. Now we might start expecting it, good thing I rarely drive far all by myself.
I got back just in time to pick the kids up from Ehren's parents house where the bus dropped them off and went straight to church to help serve our Wednesday night supper. And by the time we got home around 8:30pm I was exhausted. I think all that stress just wears you out. :) I'm very glad for a very low-key day today other than my first 2 volleyball games tonight.
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