Truck woes--sort of a vent

Mike called me yesterday, wanting to know if he should pay for his two new steer tires from our checking account, or if he should charge them to Fred's account and pay them out. (Fred is the owner of the company we're leased to.) I told him to go ahead and pay for them, since we actually had enough money for a change. He charged them.

He called me a few minutes later and said one of his batteries blew up. Good thing he didn't pay for the tires out of our checking account because there would not have been enough money to fix both problems! He went to Peterbilt and got batteries. They were $120 each--the truck takes FOUR!

Geesh. That's $500 just for batteries. The tires were almost $700. So there went $1,200 in only one day. And the truck needs a new air compressor. Guess what? It ain't gonna happen this week! Trucking is incredibly expensive... which is about half the reason I despise it.

After doing all that late yesterday, he was too tired to make it all the way home. So I called him at 7 am to wake him up. He spent the night in Tulsa, only 100 miles from home. How disappointing.

And there you go--the other reason I despise trucking. My husband is always too tired to make it home. He almost always has to stop somewhere along the way to rest just to make it here. And then he ends up spending almost no time with his family because he's tired. He ends up sleeping most of the weekend to "catch up" so that he can go another week.

Have I mentioned that I don't like trucking? Ugh. I really would like to have my husband back... but he seems to belong to the open road instead of to me. :(

Second Grade... Coming Soon!

Delaney will start school on August 18. She will be in the second grade, and it's only 3 days away!

We had gotten a letter earlier this week about open house. It had a little bit about her teacher, a list of students that will be in her classroom, and a class schedule. Delaney immediately started to cry! She only knew one little girl in her class, and we were having trouble trying to figure out how to pronounce the teacher's name.

Last night, we went to open house at school. We met her teacher, Mrs. Mansilla (pronounced man-SEE-uh), and she is very nice! She was very sweet and friendly, and seems to have a great love for the kids. I'm so relieved to have met her because I think I get more nervous about school and the teachers than Delaney does!

Allen Elementary seems so huge. There are several halls of classrooms for the second grade students! Last year we were told that at last count, there were 305 first-graders. Wow. That's a lot of kiddos!

When we were getting all of Delaney's things together to take to her new class last night, Jenna got herself a backpack and wanted to take "her" things to school, too. LOL... Thankfully, it will be a couple more years before we have to worry about Jenna going to school. I'm not quite ready for that yet!