I post here on this blog long after blogging was cool.  I love that a handful of you friends read here, but I mostly post as a record of our lives.  I already catch the kids glancing through from time to time, and I hope it remains a viable source of family history as the years go by.

Last night, around 5:15 P.M. Stewart came in the living room to tell me the car had lost electrical power a few miles from home like it had done two other times since we had owned it.  Though we know it is a relatively inexpensive fix, it was literally the straw that broke my back where “Skrt Skrt” was concerned.

At 6AM today, I was online and by 11:30AM we were test driving a car in Orleans County. 

It was all God.  This car has about 11,000 miles on it for $11,000, and it is a 2016 still under warranty until April.  I ended up leaving John out there at 2PM so I could get home, change, and get to work by 3:30PM.  I was late, but had called ahead to warn them.  John did not get home until 6:00 PM, but when he did, he had a new Butler Family Commuter’s Car for the family.

It represents some humility on our part.  We’ve been blessed to live debt free for many, many, many years (save the mortgage) and getting even this small loan hurts just a little.  But we have been easily paying a hundred or more dollars a month on repairs for the little red one, so it makes more sense to have something younger and less worn out.

I hope the kids remember how God made this sweet little car possible for us, and I pray that it gets more than a few kids through their early college years at local schools.