The old rusty car..

Well yesterday evening my step-dad came over and we resurrected the old rusty red car in my driveway. It has been sitting there for literally years and it’s not a vehicle of quality. I remember a few years ago driving a long and hearing this odd sound like a big thud, and then crunch, I looked behind me and a HUGE piece of rust had fallen off!! So why the move to bring car from loserville back from the dead? Well a few weeks ago my three sons and I were in a very bad car accident and we totaled off our mazada. It was a three car collision that should never had happened and ended with us being smashed into a metal pole as well. I only remember hitting one vehicle (who was at fault by the way) and not the other two.  Now I have to say, I had been struggling with my faith for the last couple of years, but this accident sort of brought me home to God again in a way.

It was…the scariest thing in the world to have my 3 year old son laying somewhere in the intensive care unit in a neck brace with glass in his face, slipping in and out of consciousness, not knowing his brothers names, not knowing if he was okay, and not being able to physically get up and see him myself! I kept a fair bit of humor in tact during the whole thing and the doctors were awesome! Literally as they were pulling pieces of glass from my head my phone went off, and it was the son “I’m On A Boat” by the Lonely Island. The doctors looked at each other when the song came on, and then laughed heartily and started singing along, I joined in at the end too, and we were all in stitches of laughter! To make matters worse, laying there not being able to feel my knees, I had to pee soooo badly! Unreal! I tried so hard to use the bed pan and the doctors were teasing me about it extensively as they migrated to the “other side of the room” to give me privacy. That’s when the ring tone went off again, and you could hear laughter erupt from the other side of the room “Well that’ll break your piss – concentration!” . And it sure did! I was reduced to having a catheter put it, and a bag of pee laying casually on my lap.  I told the doctor I was no longer the cool stylish accident victim, but I was now the loser accident victim who had her own pee showcased.  I think I had more fun joking with the doctors there than anything, and well… the morphine definitely helped, lol!  All in all we came out as if angels had been holding us all up in that accident! The MD had told me he was expecting to find me dead at the scene of the accident, and everyone was convinced that I had angels watching over my boys and I.  My three year old just ended up having some bad whiplash and cuts on his face, and my other two boys only had very minor seat belt burns! I had minor injuries compared to what I could have had, but they were worried about a vertebra in my neck so I was in a neck brace for a few weeks, I had glass stuck in my head and cheek, a broken cheekbone and very badly bunged up knees, but overall, I was quite alright! In any case, my little boys are OKAY and that’s all that matters to me .

So clearly, I had to get the crapmobile going again, just until I find another vehicle, and so the shopping begins! Yuck yuck yuck, if I get told one more time to buy a mini-van I might scream! I just enrolled all three of the boys in soccer, so to get a mini-van would “officially” make me the soccer mom!! I am just not ready for that status yet! I need a nice car, that looks nice, has no rust and is reliable. Not necessarily a brand new vehicle by any means but something that would look good with my photography business stamped on it, and that looks professional enough that when I pull up for weddings and jobs, every one isn’t wondering why they hired me to begin with.

So here I am back in the red rusty car, and not liking it at all! This car hunt best go well!!!

Our Mangled car

the car accident

car accident

the car accident

The pole