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The Green Hornet

2010 has been out to a good start sunny days and much happiness. The rain clouds moved in last night when our car (aka: The Green Hornet) wouldn’t start after picking up Spyro’s for dinner. We walked home, and Eric worked with our mechanic Winston’s to get the car running, it didn’t work so he came home with plans to have it toed to Winston’s in the morning. We talked a lot about money, making things work, and God forbid, getting a new car. We prayed about it, and felt at peace with our situation, knowing God would take care of us.

Now, I’m not saying that God didn’t take care of us, He gave us our answer to our prayers; we just don’t like the answer we got very well.

After having it toed, (by the same guy who took it to Les Schwab for us in November after our two tire blow out) our mechanic Kai at Winston called us with some less than great news. The Green Hornet is dead. Something to do with the cylinders… and I guess I tune out mechanic talk after that, the bottom line is, $4000 to fix it. Yikes… $4000, so here we are, faced with one of the biggest hills we’ve had to climb in our marriage thus far.

What next?

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