As some of you may have heard Aiden and I were in a car accident Tuesday morning. Don’t worry we are both OK. Here is the story:
Aiden and I were driving our 2000 Pontiac Montana to meet up with Melodie at the church office. She had left about 30 minutes earlier with Ryan (Ethan was at school). I pulled out of our neighborhood onto Walker St. and proceeded down the street like we have done hundreds of times before. Not even a mile down the road we were passing though the intersection at Walker and Crescent and out of no where… BAMMM! This lady who was driving the opposite direction on Walker decided to take a quick left turn in the same intersection right in front of me. My front passenger headlight area collided with her passenger side spinning her around in the intersection. Thankfully our van is like a tank. The air bags didn’t even go off and I swerved a little but made it through the intersection and pulled over to the side of the road safely.
I was a little rattled from the suddenness of it all. (I didn’t even see her until we collided, I think this is a great indication of how fast and careless she was driving.) I looked back at Aiden and he was a bit confused. He said “Daddy go Boom?” Other then being a bit shaken up both of us were fine. I pulled Aiden out and surveyed the damage. The lady that hit us was still in her car in the intersection. A guy had stopped to help and make sure she was ok. Her car was completely smashed and had to get towed away on the back of a tow truck. The police officer told me that she was fine but she went to the hospital in the ambulance anyway to get checked out. Melodie came back from the office and I limped the car home into our parking space.
So there our van sits. The front passenger side completely smashed up and undriveable. I contacted the insurance company and it looks like it is going to take a while to get fixed, if not declared totaled. In the mean time we are all jamming into our little Ford Escort anytime we want to go anywhere as a family. It is a little difficult to fit two car seats into the back and Ethan in the middle. Not much room for backpacks, toys and other such things that the kids bring along with them but we will manage.
The crappy thing about all of this is that Aiden spent the rest of Tuesday vomiting every few hours. He had no other symptoms of head injury so we think it just had to do with the anxiety from the crash. This was confirmed by the past few nights of nightmares he has had. Waking up and yelling “Daddy go Boom!” We have not had much sleep in the past few days. Other than the nightmares Aiden is doing fine. He is his same old non-stop energy/destroy everything kid he has always been.
I am confident that God is going to work this out in the best way possible. Whether that be a fixed van, a new (obviously used) car, or some way we haven’t yet thought of. Please pray that His perfect will be done in all of this. And thank him that we were all safe through this whole thing! He is Awesome!
