Blessings: A Car Story

So, Sama took our car to get checked out to make sure all was well for driving to Oregon on Saturday. Well, apparently the back left tire was in bad shape because the brake was slowly getting welded onto the tire. What?! Yeah so all those times we put the emergency break on when we park--totally unnecessary apparently. So that caused problems with the car overheating a lot because it was working extra hard to pull that tire around.  Anyway, we knew our car was old and not the best, but we were still hoping to take it. They gave us an estimate and got to work fixing the problems. I guess it was still okay to drive because Sama brought it back and had plans to go back today to let them finish the repairs. Well....

Yesterday Sama took the car out because he had left his backpack with his computer and brand new camera across town. He didn't make it because the car started banging. He turned around and headed home going as slowly as possible and then....the tire fell off. Yep. It just fell off and rolled away. Crazy.

So where are the blessings in this you may ask? Well I promise they are there. Thankfully no one was hurt yesterday when all this happened. The tire rolled into a really old fence but no other cars or anything. There was no accident. Also, we were very lucky that Natalie wasn't in the car. Again, nothing bad happened, but it would have been a lot more worrisome if she had been there. And finally, this happened BEFORE we started driving a few hundred miles to Oregon. So, blessings! We are so grateful.

Yes, it is too bad about the car, but we were planning on purchasing a new one once in Oregon anyway. So we are going to sell this for whatever price we can get and put it towards the new car.

And now back to packing!

Bedtime Smiles

So Natalie has started doing something interesting. When we are getting her ready for a nap or for bed, she will sometimes fall asleep and then wake up as we put her down in her bed. At this point instead of crying or getting upset, she will usually just start smiling these big adorable smiles at us. It is too cute and I have to remember that it is nap/bedtime and not pick her up and start playing with her. Anyway, I think she knows that if she smiles at us then we will play with her and that smiling at bedtime is so much more effective for getting picked up than crying. And smiling is definitely more fun for us too :)

This Week

We had a great week! Well, not including Natalie having an ear infection. Poor baby. I've been getting plenty of exercise and we have spent a lot of time with good friends. Wednesday we went to eat with some friends and we had more friends over last night. It was just great.

Well I realize this is very short, but I just wanted to give an update. Hope you are all doing well!