You know, it's a good thing I've already made up my mind [see earlier posts] that my Christmas focus will be more spiritual this year.

Because after what I did to my husband's beloved Dodge Ram truck the financial part of it probably isn't going to be such a thrill, anyway.

Friends and family who read this blog will be shocked to hear this--because we've haven't said a word about it. But I--yes I, WonderDrip---seriously injured my husband's "third baby". His truck.  He hasn't so much as uttered an angry unkind word though. He has merely cautioned me to be more careful, to pay  more attention.  Of all the men to have their trucks abused by their wives did it HAVE TO BE MY SWEET MAN?

While at a friend's house [um, that would be you, Jennifer] I was backing into what I thought was her driveway to exit her subdivision. THEN....

THWUNK! THWAP! CHU--U--GGG! [CAN YOU TELL WE STUDIED PHONICS DIGRAPHS TODAY?]

I backed into her telephone pole. The stinking pole was fine--but my husband's truck! 

I thought I had just damaged the bumper. "We'll find a junkyard and get another one," I thought, nearly in a panic. "After all this IS Tennessee--we've got nearly as many junkyards as we do mountains!"  Not so.  Upon careful examination, I not only damaged the bumper, but the truck-bed-door-thingy, the bed liner, and something else that I can't remember the name of.

He took the truck to a body shop today to get an estimate and called me. "Hon, do you want to guess how much it is?"  "NO, just tell me, "I said, while in the back of my mind I was trying to calculate what I had in the house to sell on ebay or homeschool buy to cover it and cleanse my conscience.

"Only over $3,000." 

So, I couldn't have a Martha Christmas right now even if I wanted one. I thought about jumping over to the SewSensible website to see if she had patterns for portable holes to crawl into when one pulls a boner like me.

I don't know if there are 'memes' for "fessin' up on Friday".  If not, I officially start it here at Doehill. Sheesh, for $3,000 worth of damage I ought to at least get a little blog traffic out of it.