On the day of Maia’s blessing, (and about 10 minutes before we were about to leave the house) we got a notification from our neighbour saying that our van had a broken window. There was an 3/4 inch size hole in the middle of the window with cracks spiderwebbing and it was on the verge of shattering. Justin drove it around to the garage as a precaution and when he shut the driver door the whole thing shattered into the van.
Needless to say, we were out of a vehicle.
And I’m not going to lie, at first I was so frustrated and angry. I was already anticipating a stressful week since Justin was due back at work after being off for paternity leave and this sort of stuff does not help with my anxiety.
However this actually came as a huge blessing in two areas:
1) Justin ended up taking Monday off to take the van in to get the window replaced. This was a huge relief to me since I could now ease into the week.
2) Turns out they didn’t have the right window so I made another appointment at a different place for the next day which meant I didn’t have to worry about school runs and such on a Tuesday either.
The auto glass place was in an industrial area so I did have to figure out what to do with 4 kids without a vehicle for up to 4 hours.
There was a park about a half hour walk away which was such an trek but we did it. The weather was chilly but once we got there everyone seemed to have fun.
On our way back I stopped by gas station Tim Hortons and had bathroom break and bought hot chocolate for us all.
It turned out to be a memorable day.
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