Growing up you hear “you’re giving me gray hairs”. Now days I’m not the one hearing it but the one thinking it. Yes, I can feel the red fade a little everyday thanks in part to the toddler. This morning I roll my window down and it won’t go back up. The window has done this before…last October. I paid $300 to replace the motor for it. Less than a year and it seems to have happened again. Now, of course I wasn’t in a place to drop what I was doing and head to the shop so I do that thing where you hope, pray, and every 5 minutes just about you try to roll it back up. Of course it doesn’t work and you eventually decide to just accept that something is broken. But you still keep trying the button just in case. After about 10 minutes something actually happens. Low and behold, it goes back up! That is when it hits you. It probably wasn’t the window, rather all the mud/dirt on your window you found this morning. You know how it got there and you knocked the big clots off of it thinking you were good to go, but nope, you needed a little…excitement to get you ready for the day apparently.

For those who are wondering…for the most part we live outside the city so we burn things. Mostly cardboard boxes, pizza boxes, and other such things. Well, trying to be a responsible adult I like to have the water hose on and ready just in case. We have a good nozzle that has the different settings on it but is also easy to use because yes, I let my child play with the water hose. Why not right?! He likes to take his semi and construction trucks outside and play in the mud and wash them off. What I didn’t expect was for him to start picking up mud and slinging it at my car. I wasn’t worried, I could just spray it off when we went inside, which is what I did. I just didn’t get all of it apparently. The actual mud puddle is just on one side so I didn’t think about checking the driver’s side for it too. it wasn’t until after I got him buckled in and walked around to get in the car that I find, my side had been mudded too. All well, no big deal. That is until I need to roll my window down and it doesn’t come back up. By now it wasn’t wet mud, it had dried and was just dirt clots which I knocked off the best I could. Apparently that was just enough for it to get stuck. After the ten minutes of trying, it finally broke loose.

It is times like these when I truly think God has a very special place in heaven for those who teach/take care of children for a living!! Lawd help us!