Your Cell Phone...

Don't leave home without it!

Seriously, Don't. Stop. Turn around. Be late. Just don't leave without it.

The day you actually think, "oh, it's okay, I'll just be a couple of hours at the gym and then come back..." is the day that you will come out from the meeting at the gym...

Load the kiddos in the car...

Thinking you have the (very busy) day planned out to the T...

and find that you have a flat tire...

so you tote all kiddos back into the gym

and try to remember some numbers (that are all stored in your cell phone)

to re-arrange the preschool car pool

and get a ride from fellow instructor home

(on which drive, also find out how un-childproof the car is when Joshy opens the back door enroute...)

to call and join AAA, to then schedule some car help...

only to be told, "Oh, your membership won't show up for 3 days..."

then grab a ride with the re-arranged preschool car pool (Thanks Marissa!!) back to the gym to try to change tire yourself...

only to realize after getting there (and having the rain start)

that you don't have any way to get the lug nuts off...

so you call AAA back, and get a different (more customer friendly) helper, who tells you she can help you (rain clouds suddenly get a silver lining)...

... and 25 minutes later, tells you she can, indeed have someone come out to help you...

... you just have to wait for them to come when they can...

... and when they do come to get enough air to get to the tire place, you are told that they are completely booked and can't get to the car for quite some time...

... so you get to once again re-arrange car pool home from school (Thanks AGAIN Marissa, and Sarah!)...

... all while hubby is out of town...

Yep - The cell phone.

Don't leave home without it.

Consider yourself warned...