I haven’t blogged since mid-Jan?? Sorry, all my loyal readers. I now have motivation and inspiration to do better. What’s up with us? Well….
I’m enjoying work. It’s been 2 months now, and it’s going well. I’m very blessed, to be working for a local business and only 8 hrs/week. It sure takes the stress off arranging childcare. I’m having fun and meeting all sorts of people. You learn lots too, just from observing people.
Jamayia’s eating better. Her appetite has greatly increased–yeah! Not only does she chew food, but she actually swallows it too!! I know!!! Improvements all around. She’s getting to be quite the ravenous little monkey, which is cool. I’m sure she’ll be slowly packing on the ounces too. Can you believe I’m starting to think about her birthday cake. Yes, her birthday’s in July, but she’s also allergic to milk. I want her to enjoy a fun birthday meal, dessert included. No point in blowing out candles on a dessert you can’t even ingest yourself.
Jonathon’s been mega busy with work. Thankfully he’s been keeping warm as he busses it to work day after day.
Speaking of warm–it so was NOT this past week. Okay, let me not lie. It was gorgeous on Sunday, just a few degrees below freezing point. But please tell me how we plummeted down to nearly -50 Celcius (including windchill factor)??? Brrrrrr…… Which brings me to today’s title.
Tuesday nite, I was heading out with the Sisters-in-love and Baby. (Yeah, I was planning for her to stay home with Daddy, but he got delayed at work). I pressed the button on the keychain to start the car, and saw lights come on in the car. When we went outside, though, the car was off. It’s supposed to run for 18 minutes automatically, and we certainly didn’t take that long to come out. I pressed the remote button again. It tried to start and stopped, start and stopped. Not good… I got in the car and manually tried to start it…had a few problems, but it eventually turned over and stayed on. We had no car troubles on our return trip home. That nite, I asked hubby to program it so that the car automatically starts when the temp reaches a certain point. He thought he did.
Wednesday morning, I tried to start the car. I saw lights and walked away from the window. Close to 1pm, I went to start it again, as I was heading out. This time, I stood watch at the window. Turns out that it would start for a whopping 2 seconds, then konk out. This meant I had to go outside and start it up myself. I bundle up and get in the car. I turned the key and was only getting silence. A couple times, I’d hear the engine try to turn over…but mostly silence. It was dead. Dead, like in the movies kind of dead. I looked around, but there was no knight in shining armour galloping through my back lane. I leaned back on my seat and said an honest prayer. “Lord, am I not supposed to go out today? It’s cool if I’m to stay home.” I tried the car again–it started!! Praise the Lord! Only He could come through like that. The car was so dead, that the odometer has reset itself, as well as all my preset radio stations.
I know you’re dying to ask if my car was plugged in. Short answer: no. The cord from our block heater is actually broken, so we’re not able to use it. Instead, we just program the car starter to automatically start at specific temperatures. We had no problems last winter. And Wednesday nite, Jonathon was sure to program the car correctly. We’ve had no problems since.
Yeah!