The flourescent vested epiphany

Once again, I have made a trip to the Dr. this time it was Amia. Last Tuesday she was playing with her sisters, in a pretend marching band. You have to love kids imagination. She decided to use my five pound hand held weights as cymbals. It however does not take much imagination to figure out what happened next, her poor little ring finger got in the way of her climatic clapping and smashed it good. Now we know how fond our family is of the ER so don't even ask if we went. Besides it was only black and blue and the size of cheese filled hot dog. Anyway, we got an appt. the next day with our Dr. who said it indeed had been fractured but also had a hematoma. She would need to wear a splint for the next two weeks. (phew! no surgery we already did that with another child and a smashed finger :) ) However, the Dr. said they had no splints that size you will have to go to the local med supply store and get one. No problem, I thought, I am not doing anything else today. First stop, none in stock. Second stop, none in stock. Then I remembered I am not sure I even have enough cash in the bank. A quick call to Geoff who confirms my suspicions and sends me to his bank. At this point It is now a quarter to 3 and the kids have yet to eat and are getting rather obnoxious, and I am just about to my breaking point. I thought this was going to be a quick deal when I started out at 11:30 that morning and now I have to drive across town, with screaming children, no money, and a fuel tank on E! As I pull up to a stop light I see the sign next to me says "you must turn right" or something like that! I however Know for a fact that the road does not end there and there is no real logical reason for that sign. Also if I turn right as directed it will be a 2 mile turn around before I can get back on track. As I weighed the pros and cons I decided if the man in front of me went for it i would as well. He did and so did 4 other people in front of him! Yes! I thought!....until I saw a brightly colored policeman in the middle of the road yelling at all 6 of us to pull over and park! I secretly hoped it was a random DUI checkpoint for which i would be cleared, of course and sent on my merry way. Wrong! and likelihood of that at 3 in the afternoon is highly improbable. I knew deep down I was busted! Having never been ticketed before I did not know what to do, other than get my license out. That I learned from watching Geoff. The policeman came over hollering about how I had 8 signs to show me that was a turn right only lane. He then asked if I was the only passenger in the car. I said No, three others. He then sticks his head in my car and looks at them then takes a step back and poses the traditional policeman pose with chest up and out. Then proceeds to shout as though he were running for office and we were the last people on earth whom he had to convince he was the right man for the job.
Ma'am
YOU HAVE DIS - O- BEY- ED THE LAW!
All the pomp and circumstance of that moment was completely absorbed by my little sponges sitting firmly belted into their car seats. It was all I could do to keep it together. Arguing with this man seemed was as futile as arguing with your drill Sargent. 86.00 dollars later no grace was bestowed. He did wish me a wonderful day, thogh. Who does that? I gave up on finding my daughters splint or lunch. None of that mattered now. All I wanted to do was call Geoff and go home. Geoff's oober sympathetic self listened to my blubbering plight and and then asked if I had done something wrong. Well, yes I ....I ....did but.... He steps in and says OK then move on. :) I love him so much! Maybe, he starts again, if you had cried for that cop the way you are for me then you could have got the warning you were hoping for. Ihung up the phone totally dejected. Thanks dear.
Later that night for AWANA Zoe had to draw a picture of what she was most thankful for. She drew a picture of me! (What a precious child.) Except over my head was an enormous $86.00. I think if she could have figured out a way to get it to light up and flash that would have been a part of her picture as well.
The sermon this Sunday was on humility, I think maybe God is trying to teach me a lesson in humility in every way possible.