practically a comedy of errors

This day keeps going increasingly wrong, to the point where it is practically a comedy of errors...

The day started off with my daughter over-sleeping on a day where she had to be at school at 5:45 a.m. to leave for a trip to Virginia for 3-days. Because of some past history, which will remain unspoken, and some attitudes and high tensions, I sent her off with a fight. Then I felt like a horrible mom all day. Who sends their kid off on their first parent-less 'trip' on a bad note?!?! (I am sheepishly raising my hand...)

Then, after getting the boys off on better note, I proceeded on to a lovely Bible study group...where I completely forgot to even pray! (Great leadership, huh??)

After study, we discovered one of the girls' car battery had died, so the three of us put our heads together...and called my hubby for directions...and jump started it. Or tried. Oops...we had the cables hooked up wrong...unlike in money, red is POSITIVE, not negative. Yeah...let's just say there were sparks, smoke and a melted jumper cable handle. Thankfully, there doesn't seem to be any serious/permanent damage (other than the cable), and we corrected our error and got the car running. (Kind of sounds like a joke, huh? "How many women on cell phones does it take to jump a car battery...").

But wait, it gets even better...

With a very whiney five-year-old in tow, I headed off to the grocery store to get something to make a meal for the new mommy, and apparently, in the parking lot I scraped the van I was parked next to as I was leaving. I say "apparently" because, while I thought I was touching, I pulled front again and didn't think I had done any damage, so I left. The two nice police officers who came banging on my door this afternoon informed me otherwise. Yeah. Seriously, they were VERY nice, and told me it was no big deal, that I wasn't going to be ticked or cited, and that they would just give my insurance info to the other van owner, who wasn't sure he was going to even be making a claim. (Still praying on that one...). He graciously said accidents happen, it's why we have insurance, and for me not to do anything, just wait and see if my insurance contacts me. However, I still say, it's not a pleasant surprise to have lawmen showing up at your door saying "Are you Jessica Clemmer??? Were you at the Douglassville Redners today???"

Then, I think I may have quite possibly crushed my middle sons' feelings by telling him I had just had a really bad day, and I couldn't take sitting in the freezing cold tonight for his game. (I guess I should really start on my "Bad Mom of the Year Award speech...)

My hubby didn't seem overly sympathetic to any of my plights today, I am SUPER emotional because I am 12 days in to a 21 day fast that is doing quite a nice job of bringing all my nasty fleshliness to the surface, and - WARNING: TMI APPROACHING - I have a chronic case of PMS!!!! Oh, and one last thing....the string on my tea bag just broke and the scalding hot bag just flung onto my leg! And then the dog banged into the coffee table and splashed the tea all over the place!!

I think...quite seriously...I need to go to bed and just end this day. And hope for a better one tomorrow. Either that, or I am just going to throw in the towel, eat chocolate and watch Chuck. Yeah...that's what I REALLY want... Oh, the spirit is willing, but that flesh is oh-so-weak...

So...you see the humor in it all? Yeah, me too, sorta...but I'm sure it will be a lot funnier a week from now...