OUR NEW VAN !!!!

Well, not really new, but new to us!! We are the proud owners of a 1999 silverNissan Quest (yes we match the Moss Family) ! While this may seem like boring news to most people - it is a very exciting day in the Bard/DiCharia household - we have been without a car for what seems like forever !! Really, it has been since May and with 3 kids and a husband living in the burbs where public transportation is non existent it may as well be forever ! We have been fortunate enough to have great friends who have been more than willing to allow us to use their cars/vans whenever we needed ! I am so grateful for all of the help we received (we really do have some awesome friends !) I am super excited about our "new" van, not only do we now have our own transportation but we also own our van! I am very proud of us - the old me (and Jim) would have run out and financed a new car probably one that was more expensive than we could afford. This time we did some heavy debating, considering and praying, and decided that rather than sink ourselves further into debt we would take our time and find a van that was a little older that we could buy outright and not have a car payment to worry about. We figured that if we could avoid a car payment for a few years we would be able to get back on track faster from the last couple years of periodic unemployment. Yeah, we are trying to be a little more financially responsible !! I think we may be starting to grow up ! Now we just have to pray that our "new" van lasts for the 2 years that we want it to !