Button Pushers

My kids love pushing buttons. When I told them to get in the car and buckle up, they immediately crawl into the driver seat and start to turn on the blinkers and push all the buttons on the radio. You know just touch every button on the dashboard. I'm sure there is a complex calculation of how long it takes me to put away the stroller and all the toys we drug with us. I think they gauge how much time they have to play in the front seat before I get around to buckle up Caleb and start fussing at them. So when I started the car last night on our way home from Jay's softball game the dashboard lights were off, the hazard lights were on and the rear window wiper was on. It was very exciting. The kids were having a ball tuning on the lights above them in the car. It was dark out so it was so much more amusing then during the day. Of course I thought of the repercussions of them playing like this, so I yelled back to them. "Now turn those off when we get home." In the hustle and bustle of tired kids and a crying toddler I didn't double check that all the lights were off. So I got all the kids ready to go out this morning to speech and run errand to find that the cars battery was completely dead. Ugh!!!! I am not the best with anything gas powered, I don't know how to jump a car or hook up a car battery. I called Jay at work and we walked me through the process. It is obviously not charged yet because I'm sitting at home with these three little monsters who will only be pushing my buttons today...

*** So in the attempt to be independent and charge the car myself I realized that I had forgot to plug the charger into the wall. Well we have two chargers so one was plugged into the car but not the wall and the other was plugged into the wall and not the car. I know it is not rocket science but car upkeep and repair is not for me.