A sick car and a sick kiddo...

Just like your kids need checkups every year so does my car. It's really cool too...I have little lights on my dashboard that go from green to yellow to red to let me know when it is time to take it in. Unfortunately my car isn't the newest car on the road, but it gets me where I need to go pretty reliably. This time during it's checkup we found out that it had a broken strut arm thingy and so if I didn't want to worry about having a wheel fall off someday I had to get that fixed up. Luckily our car repair place is just a few doors down from our house and I am able to just walk home. The guys who run the shop are really nice and do a great job keeping my car going and Bill says that we don't have to worry about them trying to fix something that doesn't need to be fixed. My car was all fixed up yesterday and I was able to pick it up so my photo of the day is of Thomas, our car's doctor. (Hi Thomas!)



This weekend Colin was SUPPOSED to go on a campout with the Boy Scouts and I was supposed to go to the gym this morning with my friend Karen. INSTEAD I opted out of the gym (welllll....new things sometimes are tricky!) and while I was hope the phone rang and on the other end of the line was the school nurse telling me that Colin had a 101 degree temperature and I needed to come and get him. Poor guy! Well it is a good thing I didn't go to the gym anyway. I got Colin home and some Motrin into him and he slept the afternoon away on the couch. Bill and I had to coordinate and drive the food to the Scout Hut (I forgot to mention that Colin was "grubmaster" for this trip so we had a fridge full of food and also the Jeep had the stuff that didn't need to be cold.) Hopefully Colin will feel better tomorrow and can hook up with the scouts for their activities in the afternoon. They are going to earn their shooting sports merit badge and will be on the target range. We are keeping up with the Motrin so that fever stays down!!! My photo for today is poor Colin getting his temperature taken by the school nurse.