So before I do a beautiful post about Cali’s 2nd birthday I need to vent a little.
I took Cali and Rose to the Dr. this morning – Cali for her 2 year and Rose for 2 months. Packer came, so I had the 3 little ones and was 5 minutes early for my 10:30 appointment. On the way there my van started dinging at me and the temperature warning light came on so I looked down and watched the temperature jump as high as it could go and the car kept dinging at me. I kept driving and looking and listening for signs of overheating BUT right before I made it to the Dr.s office my gas light came on and the temperature light went off and the temperature gage came down to midway between hot and cold. So… I went to my Dr appointments and brought the owners manual in with me for reading material.
Now to make a long story short. I expect to wait 10 minutes at a Dr.s office, 20 minutes is normal, but 50 minutes!!! Are you kidding me? 50 minutes after my scheduled time plus I was there 5 minutes early because I wanted to get in and get out. I have a kindergartener to pick up at noon… So my kids were getting very unhappy by this time and we still had to do all of the doctor stuff and shots and this whole time I just kept thinking that I was here for a well check – a well check up – we were not sick or needing to be there, just trying to be a responsible mom and get immunizations as scheduled and… after being in the nasty waiting room for an hour we probably brought home everything from the other 20 patients that were not there for well checks and were seen before us!! Anyway, we finally got in to see the Dr ( AND then I called Ben in the middle of a meeting and he had to leave and reschedule his meetings and go get Benji from School because our morning at the DR’s office was LAme and we could not get home in time) and the Nurses FINALLY came to poke the girls in the legs (maybe they should do over the counter immunizations!! I would be happy to poke the kids at my convenience compared to what I went through this morning.  And at 12:05 we were finally done. Cali ended up getting an antibiotic for her ears and hopefully we won’t be going back until the next well check.

The only good news is that the van ran fine on the way home, no light on, no dinging, no High on the temperature gage – no mom with 3 little kids ages 3 and under stuck on the side of the road. BUT – is something wrong with my car?? is it an electrical problem? Thermosat malfunction? or am I going to be over heating again soon?

I feel better now. Thanks for listening blogging world.