Yesterday was going to be pretty low key, spending the morning with family and the evening with a friend, but our bus threw us for a bit of a loop in the afternoon, just to keep it interesting.
If you’re from around here, you know there was an extreme cold warning yesterday. So our plans to play outside got scrapped, but we still made our way over to my mom’s for the morning. After a lovely morning of playing and eating and visiting, we began the process of packing up to head home for naps and such. Brady went out and started the van, and came back in to help load everyone up.
By the time we got out to the van, the kids were complaining of the cold and we reminded them it was literally a two minute drive home. When everyone was buckled, Brady climbed into the drivers seat, and noticed that the van accessories were running, but the van itself wasn’t.
Spoiler alert. It didn’t run after that. Still hasn’t.
The kids and I sat for a good while as Brady and my brother in law worked to get it running. But it didn’t work :/ They helped us get home, and Brady will be running back and forth a bit today, trying to get the van up and running. We think the gas lines froze?? Not totally sure, but hopefully the warmer weather today will be enough to get things moving.
After that special shakedown, Jerilee came over and we spent the evening together, eating WAY too much food and watching trashy movies.
We were all feeling old, and we didn’t make it to midnight together. Jerilee stayed until maybe 11:00 ish, and Brady and I watched Life in Pieces until midnight. We crashed immediately afterwards, haha!
Today begins 2019!
I’m feeling blank slate-ish. Fresh start-ish. But not good riddance-ish at all. Its so funny to look back on each year as a whole. My 2018 was so amazing, but a lot of people I love suffered hard this year. My 2017 was heartbreaking and changed the course of my life, but I have friends who truly loved their 2017. I’m not itching to see 2018 go like I was after 2017, but I have high hopes and a fresh face going into 2019!
We’ll talk goals for the future soon enough, once I’ve had time to sort a few of them out. Be thinking about yours so we can share!