Snow Kidding!

Guess what I did today?

You guessed it...
I crashed my car in to an abandoned vehicle in a snowy ditch!
How did you know?

What a crappy day! I got called in to sub at the high school because some teachers who have to travel quite a distance decided that the roads were too bad. They were right! I wasn't feeling good this morning, so I almost said no, but I didn't work yesterday so I felt like I should just do it since it was bound to be a low attendance/easy day anyway. When I got in the Civic (no I didn't take the Golf because it hasn't got a car starter in it, but I should have!) the radio announcers were telling everyone to stay home if they didn't have to go out...psha! I've driven in worse!

Well about a third of the way to town I hit a patch of ice, I took my foot off the gas, my car started fish tailing, I was scared that I was going to run into an on coming truck, so I probably over steered and that landed me in the ditch! Unfortunately, someone else must have done the same exact thing not long before because right in the middle of the snow bank my car was ploughing, was an SUV. Crash! Crunch! Sob!

I'm fine, no one else was with me, and no one was in or near the SUV. Insurance will take care of everything, I hope, even a rental car starting tomorrow morning.

I thank the Lord that I lived to tell this tale, that my kids weren't with me, that the other driver had already gone to get a tow truck, that we don't own nice new vehicles, that my parents were able to come pick me up (Mike was stuck at home with both kids and no car seats).

I guess this was a wake up call to pay attention and enjoy life! It could have been over for me if I had hit the ditch a moment sooner, or if I had hit the on coming vehicle, or if, if, if....

I need to rejoice in the small trials that I face, and be honoured to participate in life's small victories & celebrations, and I need to savour moments of retreat. I need to complain less and praise and thank more. I need to clean less (don't gasp at the thought) and "huggle" my babies longer. I need to be more mindful of how short a moment is, and consider that only God knows the quantity of my moment rations.

All this to say, I'm glad I'm alive.