our week

Sunday:

On a whim, I decided to finally put a post on Craigslist to try to sell my car.  My 1994 Nissan Sentra, that my parents gave me for Christmas my junior year of high school.  (thanks to my dad for reminding me of some of those details!) So I've had this car for just over 11 years.  It drove me back and forth to high school and back and forth from Winfield to Manhattan for college.  Then it drove me from Manhattan to Newton many many weekends after Dave graduated and moved back home.  And once we were married, it's carried our children in infant seats, and then toddler seats.  It's taken my hubby back and forth from work and home many many days.  It had super gas mileage and required very little work over the years.  But having a collection of 5 vehicles (Dave's truck, the Nissan, Dave's Cuda, my grandpa's old truck, and now the Durango we just bought which is a story all of it's own) is not very realistic, nor do we have room for them.  And it's really bad when our children begin counting them up and commenting on how many we have!

 So we decided we'd sell the Nissan.  I posted it on Sunday afternoon on Craigslist before I laid down for a nap.  We had no idea what to expect.  But we definitely weren't expecting the outcome we got.  And I was definitely expecting to get a nap in.  But instead, In the first 5 minutes, Dave got 3 calls.  All 3 people headed from Wichita to our house.  Dave informed them all that others were coming at the same time.  So we rushed out to clean the car up a bit and figure out what in the world we even needed to know to sell a car on the spot like that!  They all 3 were here at the same time, taking turns driving it.  The 2nd guy was willing to pay just what we wanted for it.  He handed us cash, we wrote up a bill of sale on a piece of paper, signed over the title, grabbed all our stuff out of it, and he was gone. 

In the mean time Dave's phone continued to ring off the hook all day.
5 minutes plus 30 minutes drive time - the car was sold.

As calls kept coming in we just laughed.  We laughed because it was JUST what we needed.
This waiting game as we try to sell our house is frustrating.  And although the car is NOTHING in comparison to the house, we know that God knew we needed a pick-me-up. And selling the car that fast gave us just that. 

Dave did tell the guy that if he would buy our house he'd throw in the car for free. Unfortuneately for us, he just bought a new home. And yes, I did stand there and take a picture of the guy driving away in the car, even though my husband told me not to.

Monday {Valentine's Day}:

Dave came home from work with a rose for his 2 girls.  Mine was red, Taylor's was pink.  Mason got a Hot Wheels.  We felt so loved!  He decided he wanted to start a tradition of this - a rose for his little girl every V-Day. We wondered if she'd really care about a rose.  But she surprised us and was SOOOO thrilled.  Her reaction was priceless. 

  
That night we had a SUPER FUN couples party with our small group!  Laurel had such fun decorations with a fancy table set. The guys planned the dinner. Steaks, chicken, salad, mashed potatoes, bread, fruit kabobs, green bean casserole and even walked around the table serving it to us.  It was so sweet! 

Tuesday:

I hear I missed a fabulous M2M night at our church.  They rescheduled for a night I had a show, so I was bummed to miss it.  Even more bummed after I heard how amazing it was.  On the upside - God is always working.  He sent me to a hostesses home that NEEDED a night to focus on other things than what was going on in her life at the time.  She needed to laugh and enjoy friends.  I didn't know this till I got there.  The night was such a blessing to her I think, and to me too.


Wednesday:

I got sick.  Nana saved half the day by watching the kids.

Thursday:

Still sick.  And the day was just overall depressing.  With such beautiful weather I hated being stuck in the house feeling so awful just resting.  I wanted to be outside with my kids.  Instead, they got to enjoy the day with Aunt Barb, and had plenty of time outside.  I was just sad it wasn't with me.  The weather made me want to clean, but my body couldn't do it.  Instead I got more down by looking at how messy my house was around me and having no energy to do anything about it. 

So I made steaks and sweet potato fries for dinner - trying to make the day a bit better.  And a DQ trip and some American Idol with the family definitely helped too.

Taylor is doing such a good job writing her name.  The only letter I helped her with was the Z.  Man, not many kids have to learn that one, huh?

Oh, and my hubby bought a new toy that he thinks will come in handy if we get our new house.  If we don't get it - I guess we'll just sell it.  I'll let you guess what it is :-) 

Friday:

Date Night!!!  The kids are headed to Aunt Stefanie and Uncle Steve's house for a slumber party - and we are headed to dinner and a movie- praying I can actually breath out of my nose.

Saturday:

Hockey Game!



Hope you're enjoying your week!  I'm praying I can enjoy some of this beautiful weather soon!