Any additional life lessons....

need to happen when daddy is in the car....



So while we don't live in the country, we aren't really in the city either....in that we are in the country that has been built up....



and it some places it has been built up to fast....



So this morning we were driving down Main Street, and I thought I saw something dash out in "traffic", but it was still a few cars ahead of me....



Didn't see any major swerving, or anything to show that something had dashed out so just as quickly as I thought about it, it left me....



Well come to find out, 2 cars ahead of me had hit a deer.



Didn't hit it enough to kill it, but Main Street is a 4 lane road, with a center turning lane....



So the truck that hit the deer stops, and the car behind it stops...



Now the deer is flopping like a fish out of water...so I stop cause I don't want to hit it and "finish it off" nor do I want to do any damage to the new car....



So the car backs up and I roll down the window to make sure it had "flopped" into the other lane. The gentleman says yes, and that he was going to pull it to the side of the road, and he and I exchange the "knowing glance" since he can see the boys...as it I was going to move it but it's not dead yet....



So as I pass the truck that hit it, I see a lady in the passenger seat, and her husband is walking back to where the deer was, I roll down my window to make sure they were ok, and she says yes she was fine, just hated to see the animal suffer like that...of course the front of their trunk is completely ruined....



So as we drive the kids start with 50 questions....



The first being what happened why did we all stop. So I try to explain that there was no accident, that no other car had hit another car, but that a deer (an animal had tried to cross the street) and got hit by a car. Johnathan asked if he wanted to go eat at the fish place (yes we eat there on a fairly regular basis) and if he was crossing the street why didn't he look both ways....



Christopher asked me if the animal died, I said no, but I didn't know if he was hurt to bad that if they took him to an animal hospital if they would be able to help him....would anyone other than a mom with kids in the car actually take a deer to an animal hospital????



Of course the mention of hospital gets Xander going, and he wants to know who at hospital....



So needless to say a 10 minute car ride, and atleast 50 questions later mommy was very tired....and had a headache....