Scary!

Can you see part of the yellow bumper under the car?

Yesterday (Valentine's Day) morning I was taking my girls to school and this is what happened! Urgh! I was on a main street when this little yellow car, trying to cross the larger street on a side road t-boned me. It turns out that the 16-year-old girl was,

"in a hurry to get to school and just didn't see any cars"

Her exact words to the police officer. I'm not sure if they tell you in drivers ed not to tell the police officer at the scene of an accident that you were just in a hurry (and probably on your cell phone) but I would think that even a young girl would figure that out. To her credit, she was in a lot of pain and possibly in shock when the words came out of her mouth...but I have to admit that I was very happy by her admissions! It was clearly her fault. She had a stop sign, I didn't.

Megan and Brooke were both in the van and thank goodness, they were both sitting on the passenger's side that didn't get hit. None of us were hurt. The teenage girl I think ended up with a broken arm and hopefully nothing more serious.

I am so thankful to live near family! I was able to call my mother-in-law who came and rescued me!

But, there is still more to my Valentine's Day story.

When I got home, I had to call Beau (who was in class at the local college for work) to bring me his truck so I could get Chase to school and get the kids home from school. On my way to take Beau back to class he says, "Oh man, I was going to get you something for V-Day at lunch." (Totally OK that he waited until yesterday...I did too :) So, nothing from Beau. Understandable. It gets worse though! When we went to pick Beau up, each of the children had a special Valentine's Day surprise for HIM and nothing for their MOM! WHAT! I started some mock whining and got some positive attention. The children each dug into their goody boxes from their school parties to find me a sucker or cookie...so I guess it didn't turn out so bad after all.