Life's Craziness

So, there must be opposition in all things or else life would be boring, right? Lately, my life has had its fair share of ups and downs and I'm truly grateful for the ups. The real craziness started when Doctor finished his internship and began a course out of state. He is gone during the week and I can't tell you how exciting it is on Friday nights when I get to see him again. Whenever he is gone something always breaks down. This time it was our computer. We had a wicked thunderstorm on Monday night, which isn't unusual for our part of the world. I was getting ready to tuck Dude into bed when we heard the loudest crack of thunder I've ever heard. The house shook and the smoke alarms started beeping. My first thought was that the lightning had struck our house. I freaked out and ran to get our shoes (those who know me well know I don't think straight in stressful moments and I always grab shoes) in order to get out of the house. I looked out the window and saw hail and horizontal rain pounding outside. I said a quick silent prayer that my family would be protected when we ventured outside. When I got to the kitchen to get the shoes, I saw our computer was smoking. I hurried and unplugged it and went to go wake up the girls. As I was walking down the hall the alarms stopped beeping. I turned on the T.V. and there was a tornado warning for our area. Great. I began the many frantic calls to my husband who wasn't answering his phone. (He now knows to keep his phone on his person at all times. ;) ) I won't bore you with the rest of the details of the evening/night except for to say that we were protected from the storm and only lost our computer and a rose bush. So that was a downer and an upper all in one. My father-in-law was so gracious and sent us a new computer which amazingly enough arrived yesterday afternoon. After hooking up the new computer I realized it was dinner time and had forgotten to prepare something. Don't judge me, I've got 4 kids and one of them is a newborn. Anyways I piled the kids into the car to go to Burger King. They always want to stay and play on the playground, but I more times than not tell them no and bring it home. Well, today I was feeling brave and told them we could stay. After we got our food we walked to the playground and in a bit of irony it was closed for repairs. So, we went to the park. We got home and Honey Bunch was shivering. Hum, that's not normal in the summer. She had a fever of 103 degrees. And our doctor is out of state. After a long night of Honey Bunch acting crazy and singing Old McDonald at the top of her lungs for the majority of it, I called Doctor this morning to see if I should take her in. I hear, "A guy pulled in front of me. " And then the call was disconnected. I tried calling back to no avail. After about 15 minutes of me thinking the worst, Doctor called back and said that he had been in a car accident. A guy pulled out in an F-150 truck and hit him. The car will probably need a new hood and headlight, but he is ok. The up in this story is that he is alright and should still be able to come home tomorrow. All in all things are pretty alright. :)