If you have been reading my blog you will know my kids have been very sick for 10 days now. I mentioned to my mom when we went out for a tylenol run AGAIN, coming out costing $57 for infant and toddler medication... plus the puffers, and antibiotics... I told mom it has come to around $200 for all this medication! An expense we were not expecting, but took on as best we could. On Sunday a couple handed vinj an envelope, inside it said, God had spoken to them about giving us $200 to help with the inevitable cost of medication during sickness. I was so shocked, how could God be thinking about us to that extent, not all that, but we got the same amount we spent almost to the penny. Monday morning we got our government of alberta child health cards, so we are now covered for all those expenses, and God covered our butts before that : )Also during our sickness we had three meals provided for us, which was a huge blessing, we used them each for two meals last week. Now for the weather to get a little less nippy so I can walk over and give all those dishes back.
Another majour development in our lives in a NEW VEHICLE! We have owned 5 vehicles in our marriage.
2. 1992 toyota Corolla, AWESOME car, sold it for $800! Made money on it!
3. Ford Windstar, first car ever given to us for FREE! Was an awesome ride for a year.Untill we left for Zambia.
4. 1994 Toyota Ipsum, GREAT car we have in Zamibia, sold it for $4000 when we left. Which made it possibl for us to buy our next car.
5. 2003, Saturn VUE, I LOVE this car, but it is too small for our family now, and especially- if and when we have another little one we would absolutely not fit. It is for sale right now.
And for our newsest addition. A Honda Pilot, 8 seater SUV, 2WD. It is the base model, but is enough luxery for us! Now here is another crazy God story.... vinj was talking to a friend about us selling our car and looking for something with more seats. And since they had more then three kids he was asking his advice about a car. He was asking vinj how we were going to finances it and things, we said we would only be buying something for how ever much we get for our car.
He encouraged vinj to get something with warranty, in his experience older, second hand, can crap out on you and cause alot more expense. ANWAY... long story short he called vinj and told him he and his wife wanted to be the bank for us, they would buy the car outright for us and we would just own them, with NO INTEREST. (ok so really, who does that! Family dosn't even do that!) we were very shocked and it took us a little while to think it over. They told us they really wanted to do it for us, now this is a family with kids of their own already.... We took their offer and started looking for a reliable car that will last us with all the kilometers we put on our vehicles.
We ended up really loving the Honda Pilot. Our pastor has one and so we have had opportunity to sit in it, and look inside with the space and things. It is an eight seater (which means, I can in theory have three more kids : ) heehee, we will see how many kids I can get out of vinj, who seems a little more reluctant for the big family we both wanted to start with :)
Now this is where RED NECKS come in, forgive me brothers.... BUT seriously. We got so much flack for buying our car from.... WAIT FOR IT... ANOTHER PROVINCE!!!! oooooooo scarey!
I mean it's not like we were ordering it from Japan to be shipped to vancouver! We could have done that too! We found a GREAT deal in vancouver, where we would save thousands buying from there. So vinj and our friend flew out there tuesday morning, bought the car, and started driving home, they will be home this afternoon. We got a car, and vinj and his buddy got a little adventure out of it too :)
Yes we accounted for the gas it would take to come back
Yes we know we need an out of province inspection
Yes we checked out if the warranty works out here at alberta Honda dealerships
Yes we added up all the expenses and car cost against a pilot here.
Thanx dad for all your advice and looking beyond alberta.
ANYWAY, just waiting for vinj to come with the addition to our family.
Also for all you pintrest addics, I checked it out since I had time with no husband home, it's pretty cool for sure! Have found some great ideas. I LOVE how people are started to get back into HOME MADE STUFF! It is awesome. Could be the death of wal-mart type stores : ) haha.
