Happy New Year! (On the road again!)

After a super-fun visit all the way around the state of Iowa, we are about to jump back into Otis the van and head for home. I am feeling very sad right now. It is a strange combination of wanting to be home and not wanting to leave Iowa. It always takes a few days for me to bounce back from this feeling. I always take a million pictures so it will be fun to sort through them. They help.

I am excited to start my New Year's resolutions. Instead of the old generic "I am going to lose weight" which never seems to work for me, I have a new goal. I am going to run a 5K this year. I will do some research and figure out what I have to do to sign up for one. I am sure I am almost back to square one after not really paying attention to diet and exercise for 10+ days. I had fun though! Still, I lost 6 pounds between Thanksgiving and Christmas. So, I can do it.

I will post some pictures of the trip and the fun we had in the snow later this week.

I did a bad bad thing....

Have you ever done something and then wish you could travel through space and time and not do the thing that you just did? I don't mean going back years ago. A few hours. 5 minutes. 1 minute. Just for a "re-do".

I backed Otis the Van out of the garage yesterday afternoon on my way to pick Princess up from girl scouts. I accidentally scraped the passenger side of the van on the garage. Upon further investigation by a very irate DadOf3 last night, it was determined to be not so much a scrape as part of the rubber weather stripping from the garage that melted onto the van. DadOf3 was able to get most of it off. He will get the rest tonight.

That didn't make me feel like any less of a heel though.

I hate it when I do stupid stuff. I know I am not a good driver. I have never claimed to be a good driver. Any of my friends would never in their life use my name and the words "good driver" in the same sentence unless there was a "not" strategically placed in the sentence in question.

It is not that I have gotten a lot of traffic tickets. In fact (knock on wood) I have only received one traffic ticket and one warning. The traffic ticket was for going through an (allegedly) red light many, many years ago while I was in college. The warning was for not wearing a seatbelt while driving from a church to a wedding reception back in 1994. (My corsage pin was sticking through my dress and into my skin. My thinking at the time was "the church is only a few blocks away....") This will surprise people who know me too because I normally refuse to start a vehicle unless all passengers are buckled up.

I did manage to summon up enough courage to back out of the garage this morning and go to my Bible study. I called my husband first to warn him. It is raining again today (go figure!) and I could not stand being couped up inside all morning with the Royals.

They all actually had a great time in their classes today. The Prince and the Princess were talking all over each other afterwards, telling me what they learned and showing me what they had made. The Knight walked right into his classroom at drop-off time. He didn't fuss at all!

I do hate it when I do stupid things. It was an accident. But I made DadOf3 mad at me and I just hate that.

Can I have a do-over??