Happy Thanksgiving
There are many things to be thankful for today. I am a simple person and this morning the thing I am thankful for is that everything is timing out how I want it to. The turkey came out at 7a.m., I did a copy cat recipe for honey baked ham, and it looks wonderful too. I made quich for breakfast and it was good and came out how and when I wanted it to. Now I just have to time out the stove top items and we are golden.
There are some years where the thought of the holidays just wears me out. I hate the "have to's" and the commercialism. This year everyone gets a homemade gift, because we don't have the money to buy things, and I think I am going to fill their stockings with cookies and other simple homemade things, or we may just do away with stockings this year, we will see.
Alan and I have never really spent a lot, compared to many others. Years ago, when Katey was little, we decided to only buy them 2 gifts each, one thing they need and one thing they want. This came one year, after opening a huge pile of gifts, when one of our children turned and looked at us and said, "Is that all?". Sad, but true. I try to focus on being together as a family and having fun.
Happy Thanksgiving!!
posted by Liz at 9:20 AM - permalink - -
November 14, 2008
Grateful for Honda
We have a 2000 Honda Odyssey and I am very grateful for that vehicle. I have an idealized notion of how I want things to be but inevitably I am too lazy to make it that way. I said that to say that we are pretty hard on our cars. We usually don't have the money to change the oil when it needs it, not that it doesn't get done, it is just done later than it should be.
The only real "trouble" we have ever had with that car is at 108,000 miles when both the transmission and catalytic converter went out. Thankfully the dealer got it covered under warranty and we didn't have to pay the 7000.00 it would have been otherwise. In the last month or so it had started to run a little rough and I was concerned that something bad was going to happen. The check engine light had been on for awhile, I knew what it was, but we just didn't have the money to have it fixed. Ultimately, we had the EGR valve replaced, the cause of the check engine light, and it is back to running great. Our mechanic told me we need a new battery, I knew that too. The one I have in there is a 2003 and it is starting to struggle. So, I guess I will get a new battery on Saturday.
I have a tendency to always thing something bad is going to happen to one of the cars. So I drive around on pins and needles, not good. I just got to thinking yesterday after we went to pick up the Odyssey about how lucky we really are with that thing and I wanted to share it with you all. And the things they say about how good Honda's are - BELIEVE THEM!!
posted by Liz at 8:48 AM - permalink - -
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