An Unexpected Week

By looking at the title and knowing Leandra and I, you might think "unexpected" somehow goes with "pregnancy." Nope. We've known all along what is going on. BUT, there were two things things that happened this week that caught us off guard.

Last week, we had to take our car into the shop because it wasn't acceleratng properly. Technically, it was accelerating, but it wasn't shifting gears. The autoshop guy said the transmission lines were chewed up and needed to be replaced. $160...down the tubes.

While that wasn't an expected cost on our budget, the bigger surprise came a week later when the same thing happened again! We were told that a mouse was the likely culprit as it was trying to find a warm location since the temperatures have been dropping. The little bugger cost us an extra $130 (we got a discount for the second visit). Needless to say, we are now parking in the garage.

Our second surprise came from a family visit as Leandra's aunt and uncle came through town...unannounced. I got a voice mail around 3:00 pm on Thursday from a "Steve Schmidt." I couldn't think of anyone that knew with that name (with a fairly obvious northern Minnesota accent), until I saw the call location as Duluth, MN. Ahhhhh...THAT "Steve Schmidt."

I give them a call and they ask me where Leandra is. I gave what I thought was the obvious answer. "Work." I asked where they were. In our driveway. ("Crap.") So I gave them directions to Opus 1 Music and called Leandra to tell her to get ready for a surprise. She was on a lunch break so I told her to get back to the store quickly.

She made it back. They found the store. And she got an unexpected family visit for about a half an hour. Yep...I'm sneaky.