{"id":10032,"date":"2015-09-29T10:07:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T15:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/?p=10032"},"modified":"2015-09-29T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T17:18:44","slug":"we-ran-out-of-gas-on-the-toll-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/2015\/we-ran-out-of-gas-on-the-toll-road\/","title":{"rendered":"We ran out of gas on the toll road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was supposed to be in buda at 11 AM on Sunday morning for a baby shower, and I&nbsp;thought it would be a fun idea to let Charlie and the boys tagalong so they could go to Cabela&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;I would sit and&nbsp;sip mimosas and eat yummy quiche while the glowing mommy-to-be opened one adorable sleeper after the next.<\/p>\n<p>We were about halfway there when the van made a very bizarre jerking motion. Now, keep in mind, I&#8217;m super paranoid after the van just completely died on me before our trip to Vegas this past spring. I think it was something with a thingie majig that connected the engine and transmission. I&#8217;m not a mechanic so it&#8217;s easy to forget the details.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, every time I&#8217;m at a red light I just know it&#8217;s going to stop again. It was not a fun day.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday morning while we were sipping delicious coffee, I mentioned to Charlie that I needed gas but by the time we got dressed and the boys out the door, we both completely forgot.<\/p>\n<p>You got it &#8211; we ran out of gas 6 miles before our exit and we were 10 miles from a gas station in the other direction.&nbsp;My poor husband was so apologetic and he still keeps apologizing.<\/p>\n<p>The kids complained they were hot. I was about 95\u00b0 outside. Thankfully it wasn&#8217;t the middle of&nbsp;July. That would have really sucked.<\/p>\n<p>In Charlie&#8217;s defense van was reading a 1\/8 of a tank. Nissan sent a recall notice a while back but they haven&#8217;t gotten around to telling their customers how to go about fixing it. We&#8217;ve just been advised to not let it fall below quarter of a tank.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t get text tag on the phone and Charlie couldn&#8217;t get our insurance roadside assistance on the phone but my long time friend April came to our rescue. Thank you so much!!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10036\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4469-0-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4469-0.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\">&nbsp;<br \/>\nShe said never checks Facebook while driving because, obviously &#8230; but something told her she need to check this one. Thankfully she was not fair away and she able to bring &nbsp;gas to us.<\/p>\n<p>I was only an hour late to the shower. I missed the quiche but made it there in time for mimosas and fun little crafts! There was even a most adorable vintage carriage in the window.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10034\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4524-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4524.JPG\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\">&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4523.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4523.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The baby shower was breathtakingly beautiful but not as stunning as the money to be! I can&#8217;t wait to meet her sweet baby girl and to see how elegantly you handle motherhood. I&#8217;m sure it will put most of us to shame!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If &nbsp;you not familiar with Jenni, she is the talent behind J.Noel Photography. We originally met when she was still blogging. Oh, how I miss her posts. She is amazing and did our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/2013\/j-noel-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\">family&#8217;s photos<\/a> in 2013.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10044\" style=\"width: 693px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10044\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10044\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12010776_10207785223055396_2067356736884467358_o-2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Thank you to Jenni and her shower photographer for this picture! \" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-10044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thank you to Jenni and her shower photographer for this picture!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was supposed to be in buda at 11 AM on Sunday morning for a baby shower, and I&nbsp;thought it would be a fun idea to let Charlie and the boys tagalong so they could go to Cabela&#8217;s. &nbsp;I would sit and&nbsp;sip mimosas and eat yummy quiche while the glowing mommy-to-be opened one adorable sleeper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,359],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-family","8":"category-vacationsweekend-fun","9":"entry"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12010776_10207785223055396_2067356736884467358_o-2-e1443539251556.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zEve-2BO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}