Mike's Cracker Jacks Day!

Ever just have one of those days... starts out the wrong way and just doesn't quit! That's what today's been for Mike... believe it or not he's still smiling!

We started the morning by waking up late... or should I say... he started the morning late because I hit the snooze button too many times! He jumped up and got in the shower, but by then the kids had already showered just before he got up there so he suds'd up and then a blast of cold water hit him! Yikes! I manage to quickly get dressed and head out the door so that I wasn't late to a morning meeting.

Next... getting ready to pack up his briefcase and Paige says "we don't have our lunches packed"... another Mommy oops! I usually do that in the evenings. But wait.. that's not all... Chase says "we are out of lunchmeat too"! So now... Mike's scrambling a lunch together (our school is a no peanut school so that rules out the PB&J), still recovering from a cold shower, running late, and then....

He finally gets all the kids piled in the car, hits the garage door button, and the spring busts on the automatic garage door thingy above him!!! Now... he's stuck in the garage! He was able to disable the automatic opener, but when the spring broke, it broke something else and even manually the garage door wouldn't stay up! The kids get out of the car, Kayleigh RUNS them the 1/2 mile to the bus-stop so they don't miss the bus, and Mike works on figuring out how to prop the garage door open with a ladder, then finally gets his car out. Wait... it's not over!

Let's catch up...
gets up late
cold shower
scrambles for lunches
piles kids in car
garage door spring breaks
kids start running
props open the garage with a ladder...

He takes off down the road to wear the kids are and they are still at the bus stop about to get on the bus. He notices Paige is crying... seems Mike didn't have her water bottle sealed properly and it poured all over the already crazy lunch he packed for them and was leaking out the side of the lunch bag!! So he jumps out of the car, takes her lunchbag, gives her his last $5 in cash to just buy lunch, and gets her off to school with no time left for him to go to the ATM and races to work...

Poor guy! What a trooper he is though! Even as he was telling me about the morning he was laughing about it. I think I'd be throwing things as soon as the blast of cold water hit me!!

Kudos kind sir! You are an awesome father and an even better husband!!