Expounding on the car...

That last post did not do our new car news justice. I knew it wouldn't, but I was literally heading out the door and had about 1 minute to post... something. I figured I'd add to it later...

See, this new car thing is a really big deal. The last new car we bought was in 1993. I was a huge fan of used cars until I discovered that the story of "instant depreciation as soon as they drive off the lot" is a myth. All I had to do was check out carmax.com to see that the used cars were selling for the same or MORE than the new version. I don't understand it, but it's true.

Oh, but this decision was a struggle. We haven't had a payment for years and when we bought the Maxima, it was absolutely top-of-the-line. We knew we couldn't replace it with something as nice. (After all, homeschooling just doesn't pay the way it used to!) But we were pouring thousands into the Maxima.

When Tim refused to drive it to work (and it is HIS car) and said it was giving him an ulcer, I relented on my hard core drive-it-until-it-falls-apart-in-a-pile philosophy.

I do enjoy this new car. It smells great. It runs great. It has about a million twins on the road, and several in any given parking lot. It's beyond practical.

Yet, even though it seems silly, but I do mourn the loss of my first grown-up car.