Different Person?

This is written by Rachel, NOT Mom! I guess if I want to not have to clean my room I better type. I don't were to start? Hmmmmmmmm...????????? Ohhhhhh! I know were how about the car? Did you know that it hit the tire were I was at? That was scary!! I hope we get the money, fix the car, and the forget the whole thing. It doesn't look like that will happen. When we called her insurance company they said that she canceled out her insurance on 10/24/06! That is bad! Really bad! I hope this is done soon!
We had a very nice Christmas together with just our small 5 people family. It was fun! I got something that was too young for me so I got a tamagotchi that is pink! My favorite color! I also got a safe little thing to help it not from being all scrached up. I also replaced something that I am not going to use that much and I instead got a DVD of my favorite singing group. Hurray!!!
I need to do something before I forget.
Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!! And A Happy New Year!!!!

Everyone's ok...

but the car isn't. I don't have much time to write but wanted everyone to know that we were in a car accident yesterday. I was in the left turn lane when a car in front of me decided they were turning left too. We were side-swiped in the front quarter panel. It didn't want to move so I left it where it was till the tow truck got there. The other driver was able to pull into a drive way. I had all the kids in the car but everyone is fine. A shop owner must be used to accidents there. She let the kids come into the back of her comic book store to stay warm while I dealt with the sheriff and everything else. I then had a friend from church come and get them. Mark came to the scene as soon as I called and almost beat the sheriff there. The other lady was ticketed for failure to yield the right-of-way. The sheriff said that it was clear that I was in that lane and she should have looked better before pulling out.
Unfortunately, we both have just PLPD insurance. Looks like we'll be able to get $500 from her insurance to pay for repairs. The question is just how much the repairs are going to be. We had the tow truck take the car to the recommended shop and we'll hear from them later today. Of course, we can't pursue the money from her until I get a copy of the accident report which could take 5 business days, which is even longer with the holidays.
Depending what we find out on the estimate, we have a friend with a heated garage and lots of experience. He may be able to keep the repairs under the $500. He has also loaned us his Neon to use till we get this mess worked out.
It doesn't help with the budget or the Christmas spirit, but we are just very grateful that we are all fine. Cars are replaceable, kids aren't.
Gotta get busy now though. I was doing 3 large cakes for AWANA at church tonight but that got rather messed up with the "excitment" of late night.

Mom's home & more

Just a quick post to make sure that everyone knows that Mom was able to be released from the hospital and go home on Saturday. She is glad to be there and says she is doing her best to not do anything.
This is going to be quite a busy week for us. Joshua has a school holiday program this evening, Rachel has a band program on Thursday, Mark's family party is Saturday (in Detroit), and both boys are in the church program this coming Sunday morning. Of course, this is all thrown on top of the normal routine of school, homework, AWANA, chores, and work!
That won't leave much time for blogging this week. It also won't leave much time for fixing my Haloscan comments. Oh, well. Bloggers will have to do for now.
I'm also putting in my final AVON order before Christmas. I'll switch the link (if I haven't already) as soon as I post this so you can see the latest books. Just let me know if you want anything.

Changes

Well, I went and did it. I changed around my template...but I also managed to goof up my Haloscan comments while I was at it. Help, blogger brother Nate! It said that it would be saving my old template but I don't know how to get to it.

Mom's being released...soon

I went back to TC to see Mom this Tuesday & Wednesday and they are saying she could be released on Friday. At first, they were saying either Thursday or Friday but they also said that she had to be off the oxygen for 24 hours first and she was still needing it on Wednesday afternoon. Her oxygen levels are doing better but still are borderline. They are still doing breathing treatments too. Actually all she has left for extra attachments are the oxygen in her nose and then the central line in her neck. She isn't letting that port out till she is ready to go out the door. Her poor veins have really had a rough time of it and this makes it so much easier.
Mom called Uncle Mike early in the week and said to come on Thursday but that they might not leave till Friday. She also said she didn't care if he brought his truck or her car but he had better be there when they say that she can go. She told me she feels like a kid waiting for Christmas to arrive. She really did look so much better this week!
Well, there is a lot more going on around here but no time to blog about it now. Hopefully will be able to soon. I also want to get some time to play with this new version of blogger to see what type of changes I can make to this site.