This has been a week of surprises. Some surprises are good, and others are not. We've had both this week.
The first surprise was with the car that Abe has been driving. I had called him to make sure that he had done something and he told me (CALMLY) instead that several warning lights had come on in the car's dashboard. Well, it is 9 years old, but I had just had the battery replaced and they told me that it was good for a while longer. (I didn't know that they only meant a few months!!)
So I gave him the phone number to the dealer and told him to bring it over there. I met him there and after we went out for a bite to eat, we found out that it needed over $5000 worth of work. And, that they weren't even recommending that we do it! Eek. Abe needs a car to drive to school with in the fall!
So that was (bad) surprise #1. But it was also a good surprise in that Abe reacted very calmly and correctly.
Then another surprise. Rosie wrote me a letter from camp actually admitting that she had a boyfriend. Sharing that information with mom was a lovely, good surprise present.
So back to the car. I posted on the internal bulletin board a query whether anyone had a car to sell- and good surprise #3- someone did! Low money, about the same age as the other car, but lower mileage.
Can you say rollercoaster week?
I'm glad some of the surprises were good ones!
Posted by: Daisy | August 10, 2010 at 10:23 PM