Hallelujah!!--

Our "summer car saga" is finally over! It has been one "car drama" after another for the past three months. In May (before school got out), our beloved Honda died (boo-hoo). So, we were down to one car-a bit of a hassle but nothing we couldn't handle. Then, in June, the boys and I were in a car accident. So, then our "one car" was down to half-a-car. It took another month before we could even get the van into the body shop for repairs. Thankfully, the owner of the body shop lent us a car (for free) while they were fixing the van, otherwise we would have been down to zero cars.We were initially told it would take one week to fix the van, however, it took three. We finally got it back yesterday (after school started back up again). A couple of weeks ago, we finally found another car to buy, to get us back up to two cars (once the van was fixed). We bought a 2002 Mazda Protege with only 53,000 miles on it. That's only 7-8K miles/year. We got a really good deal. Hopefully, there will be no more "car drama" for the next five years.