This morning the Jeep wasn't liking the cold. While it started up right away, Hank decided to shut off all the electronics in the vehicle but keep running. So I left it heating up in the driveway, and came back out and all the electronics were still not working. I turned off Hank, and tried to turn him back on, and he was dead.

Most likely a dead cell in the battery.

My wonderful mother woke up from a dead sleep to come and take me to work. Thankful that even in the bad moments I get the good moments of catching up with her.

Work was busy, but productive, which is a far cry from last week I think.

Stephen picked me up from work, in a pretty bad mood. When your teeth hurt, and it's not a pain you felt before, it's worrisome and also puts you in a pretty sour mood. It was pouring outside, and traffic was terrible with no good way to drive home.

Stephen had preordered a battery for the Jeep, except when we got to Advanced Auto Parts they informed us we'd preordered it at another location 3 miles away, which might of well been 100 miles because traffic was at a standstill.

Stephen looked up the address, and I noticed the time it closed was 5 minutes ago. But that couldn't be right, because what auto place closes at 6pm on weekdays and 4pm on a Saturday? Sketchville auto stores, that's who.

We got there and sure enough they were closed like their website hours said. So we sped off, me freaking out a little bit because it was wet, we're going fast, and people are crazy drivers, and ended up going to pick my car up at Stephen's office where it's been parked for a few weeks.

Thankfully the car was working, and the drive was smooth sailing from there.

Chad came over for a bit, and by that time Stephen's mood had gotten better (medication helps a lot) and he felt ready to open his package that had come in the mail. So we recorded the whole event, and even Stephen's first attempt at trying to master his brand new pair of Heely's!

I married a child.

It was just the laughs we needed though. We kicked back the rug in the den, and he used Chad as his assisting arm to roll around on the vinyl floors.

Matt finally made it home a bit later, and we got to present him some brownies with a single candle in the middle for his birthday! Happy birthday BMACK! 

Woke up this morning to snow. SNOW!! In March! In South Carolina! This state has problems, but this problem was a good one because I finally got to see the pretty snow falling outside of my window, which is the first time really in about 3 years.

After a good morning and introduction to "Experiencing God" series that we will be doing over the next few months at church, we all gathered together for a spaghetti lunch and an Operation Christmas Child meeting. The entire time my back kept hurting worse and worse, and so finally after about an hour at lunch, we headed back home, the snow already melted from this morning.

The rest of the day I slept, read, and played on the computer until the wee hours of the night, hoping to give my back some rest. It didn't entirely work.

But in the hecticness the next few weeks will bring, I needed the rest. Also finally turned my phone on that has been dead all weekend to find I actually had a ton of missed messages. Which is good and bad. Makes me feel good, but makes me a bad friend. Oops.

Stephen and I were walking to the car a little after lunch to drive over to Lowe's to pick up a few items for the backyard, but mainly to get me out of the house because I was starting to get a little bit of cabin fever. As we stepped out the door I saw Melinda getting out of her car walking towards me. Asked her how her daughter Hailey was doing, and she mentioned she was going to come ask me to lunch.

So instead of just the two of us, Stephen joined us too. We went to Panera Bread and ended up sitting there for about two hours just talking about how the earth may be flat, kids growing up, and entrepreneurship.

As scary as it may be for me to think about Stephen starting his own business and us not having the most stable income for a while, it's always amazing how God keeps putting people in our path who want to help Stephen along the way. Melinda has been through managing her own business for years now, and they are about to open up another business this month. So her connections and advice I think could prove really valuable in Stephen's venture.

God keeps trying to ease me into this, and trust me I really appreciate it.

Later tonight we had my parents over for my Mom's 69th birthday! We ate Hudson's BBQ, had some baked scones from Momma Rabbit's and played Spinners--all things my mamma loves! Matt was even able to join us for a bit.

Around lunch time I headed out the door with a present in tow to go to Elgin to meet up with Britney Paquette. Britney has come to our Unleashed group for a while, but she moved recently and I haven't seen her in almost a year.

She's actually pregnant, and expecting a little girl next week! She's super excited for Avery to be here, and it was so good to get to open up with her some about anything and everything.

We've never really hung out just the two of us, so it was a bit of shock to me to realize how natural we were around one another. No weird awkwardness or silence, just catching up like "old times". Always nice when I manage to make a friend as an adult. I feel so accomplished when I do. 

I think my mood today was defined in the moment tonight when we tried to leave for Unleashed. I needed to repark my car as it was sitting in the middle of our lawn so Stephen could sell his truck. In trying to move it back into the driveway, I managed to do anything but get it straight. At no point do I believe all 4 tires were on the driveway, so finally after staring at Stephen and Matt in desperation, I finally gave up. Halfway parked on the grass and driveway, I just shoved it in to park, turned it off, got out, and stormed off to Stephen's car and told them, "I know. I'm just done."

Later Matt told me as soon as I turned off the Jeep, Stephen said "Oh she's so done right now." Haha. I've come to realize when I get frustrated I just quit and walk away, because otherwise I will explode.

Unfortunately this week has been crazy busy and weird, and slightly overwhelming at work. While its been some good mixed in there, like today when sweet Keith begged me not to leave school, there's also been some real crummy moments like realizing on Monday I had nothing done for all our volunteers who were coming today to help pack our camper packets. On top of getting more projects that need to be completed in like a week, it was just a bit too much today.

But now it's the weekend, and hopefully the grumps will be gone soon! 

Being back today at work was like having a second Monday in one week. I thought having a break was going to be good, but unfortunately it was quite the opposite.

Just was happy to be home this evening, and once again take in all the rest and relaxation we could. So with scrambled eggs made, Parks and Rec on the tv, and cuddled under a blanket with my head in Stephen's lap, it was a pretty good day. 

We were the first ones in the door this morning at the surgeons office. Unfortunately they were a bit behind and so we had to wait for a bit still, but soon enough Stephen was taken away for 2 hours while they removed his wisdom teeth.

Insurance didn't cover the whole cost of this, so I was fully hoping that my 1K was going to get me a front row seat to loopyville and hilariousness. But apparently Stephen is immune to anesthesia and its ill effects, and all I got was a drowsy and still kind of funny live video Stephen did from the parking lot at Walgreens as I picked up prescription meds.

You might can watch that here :/