Wayne was off today.
Today is the federal holiday for New Year’s.
A paid day off, we’ll take it.
Monday’s are also OT for Marcus & Macey.
Today was our first day back since the holiday’s.
Our plan was to go as a family, all except Taylor.
Taylor had spent the night with Hannah & had planned to spend the entire day with her. Time is passing quickly for those two.
Anyway, we were about 10 minutes from walking out the door when the phone rang. It was Taylor asking for Daddy’s help on behalf of Miss Mary.
They were only a few miles from our house & theirs when Mary’s 12-passenger van filled with 12 people had blown a tire. They were safe but stranded.
(Chris has left yesterday for a quick trip to UA to take care of business)
Fortunately, we had not left so Wayne & Tanner where on their way to help.
Mary had pulled over in a Burger King parking lot by no mistake.
Wayne worked hard to get them back on the road as soon as possible.
They were headed up the turnpike, a 2 hour drive, to meet Mary’s brother & his children for a visit. This put them behind about 2 hours.
After all was said and done, Wayne fixed their tire while I took the 3 little’s to OT myself, Mary & the kids got back on the highway as planned & we were able to meet Wayne & Tanner just in time for lunch at McDonald’s.
A detour, YES!
Another opportunity to be used to serve one another, definitely.
We were just glad we were able to help.
It won’t be long before we won’t be the ones to be called on. Sniff! Sniff!
For such a time as this…
Sid the Science Kid aka Tanner
Tanner has really enjoyed Science this year.
Several household items we have in the pantry has been used
as some kind of Science experiment.
He has enjoyed learning these techniques on line from Steve Spangler.
So much so, that he asked for Science projects for Christmas.
He has a bubble gum making kit, root beer making kit, the possibility to make snow, gravity goo & his latest fascination is dry ice.
You pick it up from your local grocery store & add water.
Tanner was so good with his little sisters.
They too enjoyed blowing the dry ice.
Tanner was intent on showing the girls how dry ice works
and
“to look with our eyes and not with our hands.”
He was totally in his element
Side note: If you add dish soap to a piece of yarn & slowly drag it across dry ice with water in a bowl, you can watch a bubble form.
Tanner is teaching us all to love Science.
It’s something he is good at and enjoys.
Happy Experimenting!
