My car died!! But the good news is that I got a new one!!!
We'd been thinking about getting a new car since we are expecting #3. My old car won't fit 3 car seats. But we finally decided to try to make it work and get more narrow car seats. And then my car died....so much for that idea!!
We were on our way to get my sister from the airport...she was coming for the weekend!! We were almost to the airport and Patrick noticed that the steering wheel was shaking pretty badly. So we stopped and he checked it out. The radiator fan was loose and gave the radiator a little crack. He thought he could fix it when we got home. We barely made it home. The fan just tore up the radiator...and would just dump the radiator fluid. When we were almost home, he had to stop almost every block to refill the radiator with water so it wouldn't overheat the car. It was awful.
We are planning on driving to Arkansas in 5 days!!
So on the way home...we were thinking about maybe we should look at new cars. Miriam offered to watch the kids while we headed to the dealership.
Everything worked out perfectly! I really do feel like this was a "meant to be" moment. It would've been awful if this happened to us on our trip to Arkansas. My old car model was known to lose its transmission around my mileage...and we could tell it was starting to get problems. So even though Patrick could've replaced the radiator...we didn't want to pour tons of money into that car anymore. We were really grateful that Patrick's parents could get us the friends/family employee discount!!!
And I LOVE my new car!!!
