Soooo Exhausted

I'll tell you about my day from the get-go. Last night I was up until 4am painting Herbie, sewing a purse :) and generally not being able to doze off. Herbie was due this morning at10am. Few others in class had completed their popcorn sculptures. Some were unpainted. Some statues weren't really carved all the way, but they gave up on carving and painted their statues solid yellow. The TA guy, Jesse, pointed at mine as an example of great color-matching. Herbie was painted the same as the original popcorn. **I'm proud that I have talent** After class, I started to walk to the postoffice on campus to mail a package. But Jimmy called my cellphone. He was already at the other end of campus to pick me up from school. He was trying to save me from waiting on him, so he showed up promptly (not knowing I needed to go to the post office with a package). So I met up with Jimmy across campus and we grabbed sandwiches to-go for lunch.
When we got back to the car with the kids and our sandwiches, the car didn't start! It was/is stuck in front of a comic book store on University street. We sat in the car and ate our sandwiches, trying to start the car every 5 minutes for about a half hour. **12:30** Our first priority was to get the kids home. We took un-neccesary items out of my school bag and loaded it up with water bottles (from the package in the trunk of our car). Allan already had a wet diaper, so on University we walked up to the CVS Pharmacy and bought a small package of diapers, a single serving of milk, and some crackers/cookies. We wanted to be set in case the kids got fussy on the way home. I changed Allan's diaper at the CVS and we started out walking home.
Jimmy called his work because he was supposed to be at Cracker Barrel tonight at 5pm and he isn't sure how he'll get there. We kept on walking, each of us taking turns carrying Allan. Allan wasn't wearing shoes. After all, Jimmy just thought he was picking me up from class and heading back home. So we didn't let him walk too much of the way (just in front of a library and in some front yards on the way home). We had to keep stopping for Elaine to drink water. She walked a lot of the way on her own, but had to be carried by each of us off and on. We stopped once for about 20 minutes in the shade, because Allan fell asleep on Jimmy's shoulder and Jimmy was too tired to walk any more. We drank more water, cooled down, checked out my new sun burn and got back to walking. We tried to keep it light-hearted for Elaine. We compared ourselves to Dora the Explorer. "First we pass the firehouse, then the school and then we're at the Blue Castle (our house)". She didn't get whiney until about 3 hours had passed. She was wearing sandals and a dress, and the tall grass was bothering her.
We finally reached where the North end of the Loop meets Kings Row at 3:15pm. Our next door neighbor lady was coming home from work and saw us!! She recognized Elaine. She drove us the last mile home in her car. Us and the kids had already walked about 3 or so miles. Our neighbor gave us her phone numbers in case we get stuck somewhere again with the kids. I'm so grateful to be home. The kids have been playing in the bathtub for 30 minutes straight, cooling off. I took a shower. Jimmy is calling people, trying to find a ride for work. Meanwhile, he's exhausted.
Jimmy is gonna take one of our bicycles to work at the Elk's lodge in the morning. He works there all day tomorrow. He's gonna check on the car and see if he can get it to start after work tomorrow night. He might just have to get it towed home. I'll let yall know.