Half of my prayers were answered. When all was said and done, it cost me just over $500 to get it fixed, but it was an easy fix. It seems that it wasn't getting a good spark, some wires were questionable, the coil had some issues and it needed a tune up. I'm told that these were easy to fix/replace, but everything that needed to be replaced must have been solid gold or gold plated based on the prices.
At least now we have two drivable vehicles. Of course Hubby is gone now... but that is beside the point!
I need to get a hold of the folks where Hubby works tomorrow to see if I can get one of them to take me over to where his truck is at. It should be ready to pick up, although I didn't get a call today confirming this as I was supposed to have. I'll call tomorrow in the morning to confirm the readiness of the truck, then find transportation. I'm tempted to see if they will let me keep it parked at his work until he gets back so it is not so crowded around here. With our 3 vehicles, and all the neighbors vehicles, our driveways and street fill up fast.
Tonight was #1's turn to make dinner. I try to arrange a few nights each month where each of the boys can take a turn fixing dinner for the family. I think it is good for them to know how to fix a meal, and know how to plan out how much food will be needed to serve the family. Tonight's dinner consisted of Green Eggs & Ham (green food coloring in scrambled eggs and cut up bologna) with bacon. Luckily there were only 4 of us for dinner or there would not have been enough. With #1 having cooked dinner, #2 is on clean-up detail. As for #3, I'm trying to find ways to keep him away from his brothers as he is annoying them to no end and I really don't want them to lose it and pummel him.
As for myself, I've been doing homework on and off all day. I work on it when the kids have good spells, then take time away from it to keep them away from each other when they don't have those much desired good spells. It has allowed me the time to re-write my notes, read a bit through the chapter some more, but not time to actually do the homework questions I need to do. I'm thinking tomorrow I need to send #1 and #2 to the library or swimming pool for a few hours so I can get more done. I think #2 may be volunteering up at the museum tomorrow, but I'm not sure on that.
I had hoped to get most of the homework done yesterday, but Hubby took off work early, and he and I spent about 8 hours taking care of some financial business to get our ducks in a row for the financing, then going up to the show room for the builder and making as many of the selections we could for the house. When all was said and done, we ended up about $1700 over where we wanted to be. While Hubby is gone I will be going over everything to see if we can trim anything to get down to where we want to be. It shouldn't be too difficult to trim away most of it. There are some options we chose that are very easy to replace ourselves in a couple years. I will likely start with those. I definitely don't want to trim the items that will give it a greater resale value though.
I still need to find time in the next few days to take the boys blackberry picking. I would like to put up some blackberry jam this weekend. I will have to see how things work out with homework, shopping and the other errands I need to take care of.