Friend!!!!!!
I can't even.
So much has happened in the last week that I'm just going to show you a few pictures and explain from there.
Okay, I started writing this post in the fall of 2019 and now it's the end of March 2020. Even more is happening now what with all this corona virus and us all being isolated in our houses and all. But before we dive into how I'm handling our new life of homeschooling and how God is working in my life through these incredible circumstances, I'll let you know what was going on when I got my baby, my new Jeep.
So it's like this. My Jeep is a miracle.
My husband hated Jeeps. He thought it was cool for other people to have them, but when I told him that I wanted one for myself, it was two massive thumbs down from him. No way, never gonna happen.
Well, you know me. When I know what I want, I know what I want. Hands down, no questions, I knew I wanted a badass Jeep to drive around our farm and take me to lots of cool places. Looking super badass while I drive too.
But I thought I wanted a tan brown one, because I love that colour and I thought it would be perfect for this name I had picked out for it. You probably don't know about the kids' cartoon, Avatar: The Last Airbender. The name I had picked out was Appa, the name of the flying bison from that cartoon because me and my kids love that cartoon and it's epic, and we love Appa in the cartoon so it would be fun to have a vehicle like him.
Well, you know God. Sometimes when you think you want something really bad, he doesn't let you have it because he has something waaaaay better for you.
So even though my hubs was like, no way, never gonna sign the papers to buy a "cheap Jeep", I started watching ads for tan used Jeeps. I found several with low kms and in great condition but something always happened that I couldn't go and look at them. Either it would sell to someone else or it would be missing things I wanted, like heated seats.
I almost went to see about four or five different tan Jeeps. And as I'm shopping around, my hubby gets more annoyed at me for still wanting a Jeep. Finally we had a real talk about it and it turns out that his big hang up was safety. He felt like he had to buy me the biggest possible SUV so that I would be safe on the road. If he didn't, he felt responsible that it would be his fault if something happened to me. I reminded him that my safety doesn't come from what vehicle I'm driving, it comes from God and no matter what he should never be taking something like on himself. It was taking on guilt and fear that he was never supposed to hang onto.
So that was it. We had that talk and when I got home that day, he says to me:
"Come look at this Jeep I found for you."
I was like, "Say what now? You're looking for Jeeps for me!"
I was blown away! That was a total 180 degree turn. I didn't see that coming! But then I looked at what he found and I fell in love all over again.
It was a beautiful Bikini Pearl blue four door Jeep. We went and test drove a couple models before deciding which one we liked best and we signed the papers! And you know what else? The salesman and the dealership where we bought it, they are incredible. Seriously, we've bought several expensive vehicles and I've never been treated this good. Not only did they deliver it out to our farm, because we were busy with harvest at the time (hence the first picture in a field.) but they gave me hats and sweaters and Jeep stuff. I told the salesman when we bough it that I wanted the works because I'm a new Jeep lover and that was important to me, to have hats and stuff. And I was very impressed with how he came through on that.
But it was even more than just that. When they delivered it, the salesman came out with the finance guy and when everything was said and done, they hugged me!!! Maybe you don't know this about me, but I'm a hugger. Not with like strangers and I didn't ask for a hug but I think they could tell just how in love I was with my new Jeep and the finance guy was like, "Awwww, you're so cute like a little puppy. Let's have a hug before you go."
Ok, he didn't actually say that exactly but that's the vibe I got from him. And it didn't stop after we bought it. You know how sometimes a dealer is nice when you're buying a car but then everything goes back to normal after? Nope. Every time I go back in, they are like old friends and they all ask about how it's going and chat with me. One of the office girls got herself a Jeep wrangler and she was so excited to tell me about it when I saw her! I totally celebrated with her!
So now we belong to the Jeep club and it has been so incredibly awesome!!! I drive places now and people are constantly telling me how much they love my Jeep. Seriously, I'm not even exaggerating. Even in the small towns around us, almost always someone is telling me how beautiful my Jeep is. One time, Brenton was driving it around a city and he stopped at this cell phone repair place and the guy there was the store owner and he had a Jeep too and he asked to take a picture of it! Even without me driving, my Jeep is like a joy bringing machine!!
This one time, I was getting gas at a full serve station and I over heard the guys talking about my Jeep. The guy filling up my Jeep said, "I don't like Jeeps but I like this Jeep."
In my mind, I was like "yeah that's because my Jeep is fucking awesome!!"
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This one time, Hubby, me and the kids were going into a car wash in our new Jeep. It had gotten pretty muddy from driving around the farm and the song on the radio as we pulled up to the car wash door sang, "it would take a miracle to wash me clean. . ." 🤣🤣🤣🤣
One of the teachers at our kids' school told me that I'm driving her dream vehicle!!! And seriously, that's how it feels. I feel like it's a dream come true!!
Then, my hubby, who never, ever, ever has painted anything in any of the houses we've ever had, he painted our bathroom (which had a terrible colour that we hated) to match our Jeep! And guess what the name of the paint colour was? Awesome!!! Literally that is my favorite word. When my family or friends call me and ask how it's going, if I'm even remotely in a good mood, my answer is "Awesome!"
And besides getting my dream vehicle, I also bought a horse for the first time in many years, and I rode her while we rounded up cattle on our farm! Rosie was totally meant to be and I never knew how much fun you could have riding a cow horse! I love her so much and I didn't realize how much I missed having a horse. Oh, and one other cool thing: One of my best friends has two daughters, Pearl and Rosie. She's my friend who came with me to our new church the first time I went there and a lady prayed for us and said God was making us sisters. Now I have a car that is a bikini "Pearl" and my horse is "Rosie". Totally meant to be.
So there you go. That's all the crazy awesomeness that was lighting me up last year. Things settled down for Christmas and the new year but 2020 has brought some incredible new adventures and I'll get y'all caught up on those soon!
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