From Pop to the Top - Funtastic Adventures in the Summer Sun!

[Happy Elf]

Really enjoyed your Nemo pictures. I loved that show, it was so neat to see how they worked the character puppets.

So sorry to hear about your car. I would be crying too if I was 2 payments away from no car payments. Glad Drew is ok!

 

[micandminforever]

My thoughts and prayers are with you that everything works out for the good in your cars situation. Thankfully Drew and his friend were not hurt.

 

[MeMom]

Thanks. I'm in need of those right now.

That is terrible about the car. Glad to hear that everyone is ok. I hope that the police have a word or two with the jeep owner.

He drove off. Drew was hoping someone who was driving nearby saw what happened and would call in the license or description, but who knows? I know I have been thinking some not so nice things about whoever it was, because they have really screwed up things for us.

Hey MeMom, haven't been around here the past couple of weeks but just saw on FB about Drew and your car - very glad he and his passenger are both okay, but very sorry you are going through such an unpleasant ordeal right now.

It's a pretty depressing night. I doubt there will be much sleep, and it will be a long day tomorrow. I know it will all come out okay, so I'm trying not to be down, but human nature takes over sometimes. After I have an evening of wrestling with it and processing it, I'll be able to face it better tomorrow.

I sent some hugs to you over on Facebook but I'll send some more here too. Years ago John and I were in a car accident that totaled my car. Not only was it very scary but very frustrating because I had just finished paying it off before we got married. We had just bought our first house and couldn't afford a new car. Luckily we were able to find something we could afford so I am hoping the same for you!

On a happy note, I was able to find some Mickey dishes at a bigger Target today. I almost missed them because they had them on an endcap over by the coffee makers and other small appliances. I thought that was a weird spot!

I sure hope so, because I really, really can't afford to take on a new car note. With some added school loans I've just started paying for Drew, I was going to be struggling until I got that breathing room after the January payment. I really don't know what to do now, but I'll figure it out. I do the after-school tutoring on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but I'm trying to think what else I can do. UPS has some weird hour weekend shifts, so I may check into those. This week, I'll just deal with all the car issues and the holiday, and maybe I'll be able to think more clearly by the week's end.

Oh dear, so sorry to hear about the car. I hope you can get everything handled easily and quickly.
So glad no one was hurt, but I know it hurts when your child gets in any accident. I also knows how the wallet hurts just when you think you are free of an obligation and something just puts that obligation back on your "to do" list.

It does. Paycheck to paycheck is the way it is here. Truthfully, I have no business thinking about going to Disney World or anywhere else for the next five years, but I don't come from a family with a history of long lives. Mix that with all the things my kids didn't have growing up in a single parent home, and it makes me want to go ahead and do things with them anyway. Especially with Trent down there now - even if I did nothing Disney other than resorts and DTD, I would still want to travel to Orlando. Dave Ramsey would be very unhappy with me, I can assure you.

Really enjoyed your Nemo pictures. I loved that show, it was so neat to see how they worked the character puppets.

So sorry to hear about your car. I would be crying too if I was 2 payments away from no car payments. Glad Drew is ok!

How many times I have said that today...
two more payments!
I'll probably be saying it in my sleep.

I keep wishing this was just a bad dream, and I'll wake up from it.

I think I must be on Santa's bad list this year.

Yes, I am very glad Drew is fine. I'm sure it scared him, and I know he feels bad about it all.

 

[vamassey1]

I really enjoyed your AK updates. Such sweet pictures with Jiminy Cricket. Can't go to Conservation Station without seeing the goats. As I have said Nemo is really growing on me and I like it more everytime I see it.

So sorry about Drew's accident. I work for an insurance company so I see this frustration everyday. I hope it gets taken care of in a speedy manner and you're able to find new transportation.

 

[jenjolt]

Oh MeMom!! Sending lots of pixie dust, warm thoughts, and prayers your way!!!! I'm so glad no one was hurt!!!! I hope the insurance company will help expedite your claim and you can move on from this!!!!! Thinking of you during this time!

 

[slightly_obsessed]

I sent you some good thoughts on FB, but thought I'd come here and give you some more. I am SO glad Drew and his passenger weren't hurt. Reading about the accident gave me the chills so I can't imagine what both of you are going through. I am sure it will all work out.

 

[disney<333]

I know I said this on FB but figured I should come here, too. I am so sorry to hear about the accident. Cars can be replaced but people can not. Everybody is o.k. and that is the important thing. God has a plan and he will direct you there. Everything will be o.k. I know the insurance is a pain but maybe you can look at Disney pictures while you get everything settled. You have good friends and people that care for you that will help you while everything gets settled out.

 

[Happy Elf]

I think I must be on Santa's bad list this year.

Not a chance!!! You have to be on Santa's nice list.

 

[uncw89]

Memom, I'm sorry to hear about the accident and your car!!!! I'm glad Drew is OK! I hope someone saw the accident and calls the police to report what they saw. I read about it on FB and I'm going back to read the details on here. I hope everything turns out OK!

 

[MeMom]

I really enjoyed your AK updates. Such sweet pictures with Jiminy Cricket. Can't go to Conservation Station without seeing the goats. As I have said Nemo is really growing on me and I like it more everytime I see it.

So sorry about Drew's accident. I work for an insurance company so I see this frustration everyday. I hope it gets taken care of in a speedy manner and you're able to find new transportation.

It sure is frustrating that someone trying to be cute has caused me a whole lot of grief, and I'm guessing they'll be sleeping like a log without thinking a thing about it tonight. What if the boys would have been hurt? They just left, and they had to have seen what was happening in the rearview mirror!

Oh MeMom!! Sending lots of pixie dust, warm thoughts, and prayers your way!!!! I'm so glad no one was hurt!!!! I hope the insurance company will help expedite your claim and you can move on from this!!!!! Thinking of you during this time!

I need the prayers of some good people right now.

I sent you some good thoughts on FB, but thought I'd come here and give you some more. I am SO glad Drew and his passenger weren't hurt. Reading about the accident gave me the chills so I can't imagine what both of you are going through. I am sure it will all work out.

I know it will. It's just the initial going through all the hassles. I've got to get a ride to school and then after school to the rental place, meet the insurance guy, figure out what to do about a car, transfer tags or get new ones or however that goes, etc. Just lots of stuff I could do without right now - or any time for that matter.

I know I said this on FB but figured I should come here, too. I am so sorry to hear about the accident. Cars can be replaced but people can not. Everybody is o.k. and that is the important thing. God has a plan and he will direct you there. Everything will be o.k. I know the insurance is a pain but maybe you can look at Disney pictures while you get everything settled. You have good friends and people that care for you that will help you while everything gets settled out.

Sometimes I need God to fast forward and show me how the plan ends. I've been paying on that car for all these years, and two payments away, here we go again. I think I will need many Disney pictures in the week ahead.

I'm guessing both boys will be sore for the next few days, but there were no injuries, thank heavens!

Not a chance!!! You have to be on Santa's nice list.

I'm not so sure about that.
I hope he will be good to Drew, then, since I've got nothing to give. We've already agreed on no presents for the adults this year anyway. Trent's got bills, since he's on his own now, Jill just had to give away all her savings for the car and water heater, and I'm broke, so we agreed. I know they'll have a little Christmas, because they have 'significant others', but I was planning to get Drew a couple of things. He's got a semi-girlfriend, but it's not like it's serious enough that he'll be doing a family Christmas with them or anything. The others are happy enough with my gift being our big family meals that we do on our trips, but Drew doesn't go most of the time, so I guess he get slighted. At this point, there will be a definite rethinking of the February/March trip.

Memom, I'm sorry to hear about the accident and your car!!!! I'm glad Drew is OK! I hope someone saw the accident and calls the police to report what they saw. I read about it on FB and I'm going back to read the details on here. I hope everything turns out OK!

I guess anyone who noticed would have called in right them or stopped. I suppose by some miracle they might get a phone call and connect the incident somehow, but I'm not counting on it. I just want to have this all over with quickly and get on with normal life.


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Forgive my whining and lack of faith today. I know tomorrow will look brighter, and I know God is taking care of it all. My human weakness just gets the best of me sometimes.

 

[Tinker_Tam]

I am so sorry Memom. I can't believe someone would be that ignorant.. and then to just leave them there without checking on them. They had to have known what they did was wrong. I could understand how you could lack faith tonight.. but perhaps the faith you are really lacking is more with mankind... Just something to think about. I will be praying for you. Please, get it all out here. We are all here to listen.

 

[slightly_obsessed]

Yesterday, he refused to go to Art, so I just took him back to the room with me and didn't try to fight him on it. I told him he had to draw a picture, and I gave him a new box of crayons to do it with. What he brought back looked like something a 2-3 year old would draw. I had no idea what it was, so I pulled out my standard, 'Tell me about your nice picture'. Come to find out, it was a turkey. I asked him if he wanted to give it to our assistant principal, since he spends a lot of time with her. He said yes, and I helped him spell her name. I wrote a note on it telling her what it was, because there was no way to know. He took it and put it on her desk and came back to the room. We spent the rest of the hour reading and playing a Math game. He beat me, gosh darn it! He was the best Race to 100 player in the room! After that, the rest of his day was better. I walked him out to his car in the afternoon, and his dad dreaded seeing me, of course, knowing it was not good. I was happy to start his weekend off on a good note by telling him what a good day we had had.

It's moments like this that ensure you can't be on Santa's bad list. I am sure he will remember that special time for years.

I know it will. It's just the initial going through all the hassles. I've got to get a ride to school and then after school to the rental place, meet the insurance guy, figure out what to do about a car, transfer tags or get new ones or however that goes, etc. Just lots of stuff I could do without right now - or any time for that matter.

One thing at a time. And remember to breathe.

 

[MeMom]

I am so sorry Memom. I can't believe someone would be that ignorant.. and then to just leave them there without checking on them. They had to have known what they did was wrong. I could understand how you could lack faith tonight.. but perhaps the faith you are really lacking is more with mankind... Just something to think about. I will be praying for you. Please, get it all out here. We are all here to listen.

I think it's the financial part, mostly. I was on the verge of having a tiny bit of breathing room in my budget, and this just blows that up. There's a lot going on at school as we close out the mid-year - lots of testing and paperwork and such, so school itself is a bit overwhelming. Put both of those together, and it just makes for a horrible, no good, very bad day or two.

I am sure he will remember that special time for years.


One thing at a time. And remember to breathe.

If he tries to stay with me today for Music, it's not going to work for him, I'm afraid. I have too much to do today, so I'll cross my fingers that he'll go in and practice for our Christmas show cooperatively.

One thing at a time - I know. There are just so many 'one things'. I'm already stressing about this morning, because I have a stack of things to do, and I normally get to school at 6:30. The girl who is picking me up, for which I am truly grateful, doesn't leave her house until 6:45, so I'll start the day off behind and have to play catch up all day. I am very thankful that this is a two day school week!!!

Let's just go ahead and have a thankful whole week around here, since I need to concentrate on good things.

I am thankful for God's love and mercy and forgiveness toward every individual.

I am thankful for the three incredible children He allowed me to raise. They bless my life every day. I was so unworthy to have such awesome gifts, and yet He gave them to me anyway. I am thankful that they have homes and friends and people who love them to enrich their lives. I am thankful that they are healthy and are not coping with any ongoing and serious illnesses.

I am thankful for my job, although it stresses me out a lot of times.
I guess I would be a whole heckuva lot more stressed out without it!

I am thankful for good people in my life - through church, the kids' school, my school, other jobs I have had in the past, and right here. I know some pretty fantastic people, and I am honored to call them my friends.

I'll stop there for now. I have more to be thankful for (I haven't mentioned two special little girls yet), so we'll pick up later.
Have a Magnificent Monday, everyone!

 

[jenjolt]

Good Morning MeMom!! I wish you a very happy Monday and I hope some unexpected blessings will come your way!!

You are so right, we all have so much to be thankful for!! Thank you for starting this morning off with that reminder!!!!!!

 

[kschafer]

Hang in there MeMom!! I'm so sorry you are dealing with the stress over this

Trust me, you are on Santa's nice list...the Jeep driver is the one on the naughty list! Santa knows all you do all year long and how much you mean to your real and Dis families!

 

[punkin413]

just read what happened to your car. that stinks!!! hope your insurance company (or theirs) treats you right. and so glad to hear drew and his friend are okay. i will hopefully give you a real hug in a few days!

 

[Charleston Princess]

Oh, MeMom! I am so, so, so sorry to hear about your car! I am very glad Drew is okay, but how devastating to be so close to paying it off. You need lots of hugs and pixie dust!!!

I will post your pumpkin recipe. I will do it in a separate post, so I can label it. I will go grab my cookbook right now.

More hugs for you! I am just sick about this for you!

 

[Charleston Princess]

Set aside 1 cup of a yellow cake mix. Add the rest of the mix, 1/2 cup butter, and 1 egg. Press that into the bottom of a greased 13 x 9 pan.

Mix a 29 oz. can of pumpkin, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup milk, and 2 eggs. (I added a teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice as well.) Spread that over the top of the cake layer.

Mix the 1 cup reserved cake mix, 1/2 cup sugar, and 4 tablespoons butter until crumbly and spread on top. Bake for 40 minutes at 350 degrees.



Chelsea and I made it yesterday, and it is so good. My kids have been eating it like there is no tomorrow.

 

[Tinker_Tam]

Set aside 1 cup of a yellow cake mix. Add the rest of the mix, 1/2 cup butter, and 1 egg. Press that into the bottom of a greased 13 x 9 pan.

Mix a 29 oz. can of pumpkin, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup milk, and 2 eggs. (I added a teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice as well.) Spread that over the top of the cake layer.

Mix the 1 cup reserved cake mix, 1/2 cup sugar, and 4 tablespoons butter until crumbly and spread on top. Bake for 40 minutes at 350 degrees.



Chelsea and I made it yesterday, and it is so good. My kids have been eating it like there is no tomorrow.

Really dumb question... When you say cake mix, you aren't talking about wet mix but rather dry, straight from the box???

 

[moparop]

Thinking of you again this morning Memom. Like I offered on FB, if anything from your insurance company does not seen right or you'd like a second opinion, Ryan would be very glad to help. I hope today proved to be a bit more sunny for you!

Are Jill and her crew coming up for thanksgiving dinner?