...to do a task I have never done

...I DID IT!

I am really proud of myself to say that I solved a problem, start to finish, about my car without consulting Mark, my dad, my brother, or my father-in-law, or my neighbor.

Now first I should preface this story with the fact that I am not necessarily proud of the fact that I have never done this.  I have watched others do this several times.  In fact I watched my neighbor do it for me just a few weeks ago.  And I was determined not to call on him to jump start my van...again.

I wish I knew why the battery had died today.  I have no idea.  It doesn't really matter.

I just know when I got the girls all loaded up this morning to run our errands, there was the familiar click when I turned the key.

Ugh.

I am proud because frankly I didn't get upset.  Not even a little irritated.

I just traded vehicles, schlepped the girls off to daycare, took care of the errands I needed to run and then came home to tackle my problem.

I thought about calling on Donny. Or even calling USAA (after all its free right?).

I have come to learn that I can google just about anything.  Voila.  Google to the rescue.

I have read stories of women who are incredibly independent and handy.  I think it is admirable there are women who change the oil in their cars, put together their children's play sets, and many even are handy with power tools.  I have always admired them.  Not that I really wanted to do these tasks.  Because frankly, I have always had the men in my life willing to do these tasks for me (case in point, both my father-in-law and my dad took care of the lawn while they were here).

I can run a lawn mower and a weed wacker just as well as most any person.  (Is this not what a trimmer is really called?  The spell-check is showing an error?)  These are just not jobs that I choose to squeeze into my generally full days.

The van issue...out-of-my-box.

Yea for me!  Problem solved.  No neighbor bothered.  And now I can add 'can jump-start a vehicle' to my resume.