The Mothers Day Black Cloud

The Mothers Day Black Cloud is something that has followed me since I was 16 and had my first car. Someone I barely knew borrowed my car to take a friend home from a party I was at and he fell asleep at the wheel and hit a house totalling the car. This had happened at about 5:30 am on Mothers Day morning.

Well, today the black cloud returned. Val and I and the boys were inside the house clean up a couple rooms when we heard a loud bang. I thought, what did the cats just knock over.... Val said, that sounded like a car accident. So I rushed downstairs and looked outside, someone had plowed right into the back of our new Van.

I went outside and yelled something like, "What the heck just happened?" towards the guy gingerly getting out of his car that was conveniently parallel parked behind our car now. He started telling me how sorry he was and I quickly found that truly this was an accident and was actually starting to worry about how they were doing. I asked if everyone in the car was OK, and he kept saying, I'm sorry and I can't believe I just did that. Yes we are OK he said. A couple fire engines and police later our Van was gone and totalled. Below is the picture to show for it.

How convenient that our new family car is now gone and we are just about to have the 3rd child. Well, he was insured and everyone was OK, that was all that mattered. So a little inconvenience but we should have a rental car tomorrow and then shopping for a new van apparently.

Happy Mothers Day All!!!!

We are still waiting for #3 to come.