Pride

They say pride goes before the fall.  Maybe it should be pride goes before the car breaks down.  My van has been having issues and not nice easy fix ones.  I'm talking about going to the shop fixes and being without a car for days or more.  I wondered why this was happening to us.  We were trying to save money to move and these bills were not helping.  Then after listening to my children's remarks I figured it all out.  My children needed to be humbled.  We haven't lived the life of luxury but we've been comfortable and our children have never really wanted for anything.  Growing up my family wasn't so blessed and I've had to wear second hand clothes or ride in cars that weren't so nice or new.  Needless to say using my parent's extra car wasn't hard on me, but my children were forced into humility.  And since they didn't get it the first time we had a second bout of it.

The "rental"

As you can see it isn't pretty, but it got us around and I was grateful to borrow it instead of paying for a rental.  My children had different ideas.

Children's remarks:

"Did they have this when you were growing up?" - Nope

"What's that brown stuff on the window?" - I told them deer parts only to find out it was a patch.

"It smells funny."

"I can't buckle up.  The seat belt is broken." - It was missing some pieces but still worked.

"I'm glad I have to ride the bus to school and you aren't picking me up." - Said by the 5yo