While the cat's away, the mouse...

gets a flat tire.

Will is in California this week. On Sunday night we dropped my minivan off at the Chrysler dealership because it started making a strange squealing sound (it turns out to be a bad shim on the side of the alternator for those of you who understand what that means) and we also had two recall notices about the van to take care of too.  One was on the electronic, sliding door and the other was for the drain tube for the windshield washer fluid.  The verdict was that I won't get my van back until Thursday (tomorrow).  Did I mention that on Friday afternoon I got 4 new tires put on the van and also got oil change?  (not cheap)

In the meantime, I'm driving the Explorer, which Will had to put a new battery in on Sunday when we realized it wouldn't start.  On Tuesday morning when I woke up to take the girls to school, the Explorer had a completely flat tire!  And, the spare was flat too! 

Normally I would have just hopped into one of our other two cars, but Will drove his Diamante to the airport so it wasn't here and neither was the van.

Luckily we have AAA and we were able to get the Explorer towed to the Firestone service center and got two new tires put on in record time!  The girls were only 60 minutes late for school. 

The girls got to ride in the tow truck and thought it was sooooo cool! 

We walked to the local Food Lion grocery store and they picked out a second breakfast (milk and powdered donuts).  I also found some stickers and blank paper in my purse for them use and we had our portable DVD player and movies in the Explorer so they also had that to keep them occupied while we waited for the truck to be done. They were pretty good considering the fact that they kept complaining they didn't have anything to do.