I got a NEW CAR!

Well, since we can’t seem to sell our house…

I got a new car! 🙂

That seems logical, right?!

Our plan was to sell the house, move into the new house, get Bradley moved into college and then I could get a new vehicle. Yeah, we see how all that worked out. I think God finds our “plans” humorous. We think we are the ones in control. Ha! Then, he reminds us that HE is the one in control. You see, I have an issue with control…I think I can handle things and I can make things happen. Then I usually have to learn the hard way that that’s not how things work. Funny, this past Sunday at church guess what the sermon was about?

You guessed it…control.

OK, God, I get it! Now that I know you’re the one in control, can you PLEASE sell our house?!?! 😉

My beloved Armada was about 6 years old and she needed some work. New tires and some other minor repairs. And, since 90% of the time it was just me in that great big 8 passenger vehicle we decided it was time down size in vehicle and to save a little (or a lot!) of money in gas.

A few weeks ago, we woke up, got ready and hit the road in search of a “new”er smaller SUV for me. Now, I knew what I wanted and my first choice was not a Nissan Murano, so Joe found the exact vehicle online. It was in Myrtle Beach, funny enough.  We drove the almost 2.5 hours to the dealership. We pulled onto the lot and there it was…a 2017 white Volvo XC60 with all the bells and whistles that I wanted. I loved it!! One problem though, it smelled like cigarette smoke–badly! And, if you know my husband at all, that is NOT going to fly. HA! To be honest, I didn’t want that, either. Now, if you smoke in your car, that’s obviously your prerogative, but we don’t smoke so we don’t like the smell, at all!  We test drove the car (twice), but we just couldn’t get over the smell and the car itself was smaller on the inside than what we were expecting. So, I looked around the lot a little and spotted the brand new 2018’s…now we we’re talking! 🙂 We test drove the one we liked, it obviously had the new car smell so that was great and it seemed roomier on the inside. We both loved it! But, we didn’t love the price…not even a little. We refused to pay Armada prices for an XC60! I do absolutely love Volvo XC60’s and one day, I hope to have one, but not in this season of life. And, that’s absolutely ok!

So, needles to say, we left the car lot disappointed. To be honest, we pretty much felt like nothing was going our way as we drove by the house in MB that we have a contract on. I guess you could say we were feeling sorry for ourselves…poor pitiful us. 😉 I will never forget Joe’s response though when we got back in my old car because it was super sweet. He put his hand on my lap and looked at me and told me he was sorry. He knew that was the car I wanted and he always tries his best to give me what I want. I am spoiled and I know it! 🙂 Of course, I told him it was ok! I’m not THAT bad! Geez!! But, I did win the husband lottery…most days.

After driving around for a few minutes and getting ready to make the 2.5 hour drive back home in the same Nissan Armada, Joe asked if I’d like to go look at the Muranos. We had narrowed our search to the XC60 or the Murano, but I had decided I only wanted the XC60. After giving it some thought, and pouting a bit, I’m sure, I decided it won’t hurt to look. We pulled up to the Nissan lot around 6:15/6:20ish, they closed at 7. The salesman walked out, we gave the Muranos on the lot a quick look over and picked out the one we wanted to test drive.

I loved it!! Joe loved it!! And, we both loved the price!! So, after approximately 5 hours at the Volvo dealer and 45 minutes at the Nissan dealer we had a brand new Nissan Murano!! 🙂

We were pretty excited to drive our fun, new, smaller SUV home. We pulled up to the house and the boys walked out to check out the new ride. They both seemed to love it as much as we did!

Then Damian said, “I thought you were getting a Volvo…” I asked him if he wanted to continue to eat?!

I have loved driving my new Murano, so if you’re in the market for a new, smaller SUV, give the Murano a look. No, this is not an ad. 😉 I just really like mine. I like it so much I find myself admiring it from afar (like from inside the house while it’s parked in the driveway), often. Now, I do miss my Armada! I loved that big ol’ white tank, as we often referred to it and I’m so grateful for all the memories we made in it, but we are all in a new season of life. Joe and I are doing our best to embrace the fewer children household that we find ourselves living in. In less than one calendar year we will be down to 1 child in school (excluding college, of course). What the what?!?! We might or might not be excited about this… 😉

So, I guess the moral of the story is, God keeps showing me he’s the “boss.” And, that’s ok, because His ways are always so much better than mine.

Something I keep reminding myself, that I recently heard in a sermon, “Even when our day is bad, God is still good!” I couldn’t agree more, but it sure is nice to be reminded.

Thank y’all for reading! Hope you have a Happy Halloween 🙂

~Susan