This Past Weekend

 

I hung out with a friend from work this Friday. We have a few times and did a craft last time. We wanted to paint doormats but couldn't find anything blank ones, so we went for a paint by numbers. Her painting had a hundred squares, so she didn't finish. It was fun to get together to paint, talk and eat dirt cake. 

A couple weeks ago Emery called me around 7:45 am; that's not a time I want a call. She did start by saying everything is okay but the car is making a really loud noise when she turns left. It's no secret she hates this car, so while I believed her there was a noise, I didn't think it would be that bad. A few days later she had our car and I needed to go out so I took hers and I hate to say it, she was kind of right. It was sluggish, little loud running and turning left made a loud noise. I told Brad but still that car had issues before so we weren't super concerned. The next day I took her to get her car washed and it was much worse. Much louder, felt hard to get it moving and the engine didn't sound good. I made Brad go out with me right after that to drive it and he hit Eagle and thought about turning back. When we got home we checked the oil and there was almost nothing. We aren't that bad of car owners, the last time it was changed was in July, so this isn't normal. We got oil and filled it up, let it sit then drove it. It sounded better but not good still. We now had a choice. Take it in, spend whatever that would cost in hopes it lasts to April. We did plan to get a different car around then. Or just junk it out. We called a few places and looked and we could get $125 for the car, so putting money into it isn't worth it to us. So Emery got her wish and a new to us kids car was bought. We did Carvana again and would use them again. So easy. We got a Nissan Kicks, a cute little SUV. 

She is already decorating it. 

We have said a few times that is it a kids car, but I don't think she hears it. She's happy the car runs better and really, Brad and I are happy to have her in a safter car, even if it was 6 months earlier than we thought it would be.