A Day In My Life

Since we decided that Joe would continue to be home educated through high school I looked at our ISP's Class Day II class offerings. Physical Science Lab is offered so I signed him up for that class. We are able to drop off our high school students, but I don't like to do that and signed the rest of us up to go too.

As I was heading to the car I was chatting with my friend Pam and told the girls to go get into the car. They obediently went to the car and after a few minutes they shut the doors and locked the car, from the inside.

All of a sudden the horn started blaring in panic mode. It thought it was being stolen and was reacting to this hostile attack against it. I don't have the "clicker" "remote" for it as it has been lost for over a year now so I couldn't just press a button to deactivate it. I told Addis to unlock the car from the inside and she did but it kept honking and honking and honking. FINALLY it went off only to keep honking ANYTIME we did ANYTHING to it. By now office workers are looking out the window, women are coming up to my car to get a gander at what is going on. (Did you know that I make an impression wherever I go, whether I like it or not?-With 12 kids, two colors, adults and babies-that tends to happen)

I decide I'm going to go home with my horn blaring and at least give the people at the church/school some peace and quiet. As I was driving through the parking lot with my horn blowing John said, "Mom, someone is coming who wants to talk to you." So I stopped and it was Yukon Don. Yukon Don is a family friend who does Bible Study with Steve on Friday mornings and is a handyman by trade. Thank you Lord! He worked and fiddled around for a while and could not figure out where the fuse was for the horn. He finally found it and took it out. Problem was my car would not go into drive unless the horn fuse was in. He put it back in and I shifted into Drive and then he took the fuse back out. Oh, the peace, the quiet! It had been honking for about twenty minutes.

I drove home with five of the kids in the car with me. All was well but I knew I couldn't do the errands that I wanted to so home bound we were. As soon as we pulled onto the driveway I turned off the car and tried to restart it, it didn't work. Steve came home and tried to figure it out, he couldn't either. He disengaged the battery thinking if it sat for while maybe that would work. Nope.

We had to get to a graduation celebration so we left it, hood propped for later pondering. On our way home, Sarah says to me, "You know this happened the other night at Youth. James made it go off and I stuck the key in the door and it went off." Huh? Are you kidding me?! It took a 17 year old girl to tell three adults how to disengage the horn. We tried it. It worked!

I had Steve call Don to tell him what we figured out just in case it happened to another home school mom and his assistance was needed. He told Steve, "I've been going to Class Day for 3-1/2 years and it's never happened before, I hope to go another 3-1/2 years before it happens again. Hilarious.