Good bye old friend

December is usually a hard month for us financially.  It's great having Gaetan home for a month, but that also means that we don't get paid for a month... and then there's Christmas presents, and for some reason our car insurance is always due then.  So, unexpected bills and spending more money, while there isn't as much coming in.  We get creative and make things work (with God's help of course) but this time we could help somebody while helping us.

Let me introduce you to my dear friend Foxy Beatrice.  She was my first car I ever had.  Good little Saturn, got great gas milage, and I have hardly had to put anything into making her run smoothly.  Gaetan had been driving her for the commute, when we still lived in GR but since we live so close there really isn't any point in having two cars.

One of our friends was looking for a little car with great gas mileage and we just kinda in passing talked about Foxy.  Well, last Tuesday she calls me up in the afternoon and was wondering if I was still interested in selling the car.  I talked it over with Gaetan and called her back and she was wondering if she could get it that night!  Turns out her brother totaled his car and needed another one fast because he had to work in two days.  We were in GR and they live on the East side of the state so we thought that it would be best to get the car the next morning.  That way it gave them time to get the title changed over and license plates and all that.

So the next morning they drove out and we sold Foxy.  I'm really glad that we were able to help them out, and it was helpful to us too.  I am always a little wary of selling cars or anything like that to people you know... what if something breaks?  I didn't want them to feel cheated or anything, and of course you think all should be well because you're friends.  We talked about that and she totally agreed... :)  I'm glad that we are on the same page about a lot of things!

Another nice thing about this deal was that we got to see Sunil's parents.  His Mom is from Venezuela and his Dad is from Nepal.  They live in Canada.  hahaha.  Anyways, we hardly get to see them because travel is so expensive, but they were in town for the holidays and I wanted to see them, but wasn't sure when/how we were going too.... this made it all possible.  They are such good people.  And I'm glad that they got to meet Lucy and Tristan.  It's nice to know people's parents and families and like hang out with them too :)

So here's to you, my trusty old friend.  I hope that you do your new owner as well as you helped us out!

JVG