Our friends did something soooo nice.

[snipsnsnails]

I posted last week that our car is done and financially, we are strapped. We don't know what we're going to do next: Buy an inexpensive car outright. Finance an inexpensive car and take on a payment. Go back to a 1-car household for a while.

Fast forward to this week - my parents had signed V up for a summer camp that meets M,T and W and this is the last week. My DH was going to be taking the car to work and it's far enough, traffic is terrible enough and gas is sky-high enough that it wasn't feasible to really drive DH to work, drop him off and then go back to get him all three days.  So, I asked a friend who also takes her daughter at the camp if she could give V a ride one of the days. She's so sweet, but logistically it was going to be a nightmare, so I said not to worry and I would ask around.

About 30 minutes later, she calls me and says, "Oh, I didn't even think about it, but we are finishing up a lease on our car, and we bought a car already to drive when the lease is up. I still have my car, so we have 3 cars. Use the extra one for the next month if you want." I told her no way but she insisted and I said I would use it for the 3 days to take V to camp. !!!!!

Then, another friend heard me asking her in person about a ride and she said that she is going to visit family for the middle two weeks in July and she wanted me to use her car while she was gone. And she wouldn't take no for an answer!!!!

Finally, we had a BBQ with another friend and they saw the car we had just picked up from the friend for camp and asked about it. When we told them what was going on, she said that she would leave their car while they're in OBX next week and I should use it for anything I want!!!!

Oh, oh, and two more friends texted to ask if I needed rides anywhere this week!

Guys, that means we have a little bit of time to figure out what to do about the car situation and I have a car in case of an emergency or a quick grocery store run or something. Soooooo sweet and big for us!

If anything, going through a rough time gives me the opportunity to see all the kindness that people want to put out into the world, ya know? I shouldn't be cynical and forget it, but sometimes I do. We really are surrounded by so much love - here on ML, in our lives, our friend and families, everywhere. I want to always pay that forward.

[luckyval]

That is amazing - you have great friends!

[Bernadine]

I think it's really a sign of what a great person you are, that people want to step up and help out.

[nursewife]

That's great to hear! I love hearing stories like this

[snickers]

What amazing friends you have!
Having only one car would be very difficult & frustrating, so I am glad you have a little mroe time to figure things out

[iamgrace]

Nice.

[Deleted]

This has me smiling big

[alzi]

This is so awesome. You have great friends!!

[AlpineSlide]

That's great! Your friends are good people!

[snipsnsnails]

Jun 25, 2013 9:55:27 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

Oh, Bernadine, that is such a thoughtful thing to say. I only want to put as much love as possible out there. The universe always needs more love.  I fumble it pretty frequently, though, but the universe hasn't smited me yet.

[Deleted]

You have some great friends!!

[bananapancakes]

That is such a nice story. It's great to have awesome friends!

[Deleted]

What great friends Nice to know there are great people out there.

This place reminds me of it all the time!

[Deleted]

That's awesome

[styme46]

YAY for awesome friends!

[stephlove]

You have such amazing friends.

[Deleted]

Karma!

[Yankees21]

That is amazing. What great friends!

[janegold]

Really, really nice!

[sparkythelawyer]

You are such a sweet person, no wonder people want to do nice things by you!  I am glad you have such great friends :-)