
That was, until I noticed the radio aerial suddenly lower on its own.
I went cold.
I lowered my foot down on the accelerator. No revs. I coasted down the (small) hill to the highway, turned the corner and put my foot down to the floor. I managed to rustle up a few dying, death rattle sounding last revs to sputter us across the three lanes of highway to reach the mouth of our street.
And there we stopped. In the start of our street. A one way street from the highway, remember? So if anyone wants to drive down they now can't. And did I mention I had both children in the car?
Seriously, I was so happy. Happy that we had made it to the street. Happy that we weren't stuck dead on the highway. Happy that I was able to run down to the service station and ask the lovely guy that works there for a helping hand - he loves the children and was more than happy to help. Happy that we live on a really friendly street - someone who lives a few houses down from us pulled up behind me and pulled his car over and helped us. He pushed the car, he supported the car, he even drove the car in reverse back on to the highway.

So that was just one of our exciting adventures. We've had lovely visitors (Hi Tracey and Jenna!), lovely dinner picnics (Hi Jen and family!), day trips down the coast, caterpillar transformations, photo orders (ohmygoodnessexciting), illness, solo cycling and lots of other stuff. Truly! See why I haven't been blogging? I've been slack on photo taking too (I find that happens when I'm busy with work photos) but I will work on a blog post this week to update on our lives. We've got pretty cool lives.
2 comments:
Casso I find your positive outlook so bloody inspiring! I LOVE the way you frame things. I'd like to be like you when I grow up :)
Seriously, I don't know WHAT came over me! How did I stay so calm and positive? :) I think in my mind I seriously couldn't get over how it was the absolute best situation that could have come from such a bad one. I was also incredibly grateful it wasn't 42 degrees because for some reason anything bad to happen with a car always occurs on a boiling hot day!
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