This morning I made a disaster in the boys' room. You know how you start to organize one little area and then next thing you know you've got everything strewn about all over the floor? Yeah. That happened. Purged some stuff. Put some stuff downstairs. Plus got all of their new games put away.
This afternoon I stress ate and watched an episode of Call the Midwife. (I only have one left to go. What will I watch next!?)
Picked up Daniel and dropped the boys' at a friends house again and then went home to pick up Jacob. Headed to Springfield for a test drive. I was very anxious today for some reason. Even after praying, I just had butterflies and had a headache. I think a lot of it was because I really was hoping this would be the one for us, but also trying not to get my hopes up.
I actually liked our salesman right off the bat. Zero pressure. Handed me the keys and off we went to test it out. In general all seemed to check out. It's a 2009 so 2 years newer than my old van, so of course it has its paint chips here and there. We were trying everything out, so I had the CD of our church Christmas music for the program with me. I stuck it in the CD player and it didn't work...and it wouldn't come back out! The salesman's face was great when he asked how we liked it and I said, "Well, it drove nice, but it ate my CD!" Needless to say, I knew I wanted the van if we could get the price where I wanted it and if they would fix the CD player.
The whole process was fairly painless. He asked if we were still looking elsewhere or had been looking. I said we had looked at some and would be looking at more, but would talk if he could make some kind of deal with us. After not too much negotiating they sold it to us for $1300 less. It was overpriced and I knew it from research, so was thankful that they didn't give us a hard. time. The gas tank was almost empty, so they filled it up for us and they got the CD out. I'll take it in next week sometime to have them look the CD player over. Overall, I'm thankful that my prayers were heard and God gave us a salesperson that wasn't pushy and who seemed fair and to the point. No run around.
Jacob got to drive the new van home, while I went to pick up the boys, who were having so much fun still that they didn't want to leave. Got home and realized James is a little kleptomaniac who stole an old cell phone from their house. Such a booger, that boy.
Long list of things to get accomplished tomorrow, so it's off to bed!
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