Thank You, Dave Ramsey!

Abba, thank you for always taking care of us. I thank you so much for bringing Dave Ramsey into our lives a few years ago. He deserves many blessings for the things he teaches all of us.

We had a hard day with cars yesterday. Andy's check engine light had come on in his car and we took it into the dealership to see what was going on with it. I turned out to be that the catalytic converter needed to be replaced as well as some pipe and some phlange. The dealership quoted us $1700 to fix it. I called Mom (parts manager at a Chevy dealership) and asked her if that sounded reasonable. She told us to take it to a muffler shop and they'd do it for a lot cheaper. So, we took it into Luntz and they did the job for $700. A lot better than $1700, although Mom still thinks we overpaid. Oh well.

Then, we took my car into the dealership as it had become really loud lately and if you turned the wheel to the right the sound went away. Turns out I needed a new wheel hub as the bearing was bad. That cost us $250 to get taken care. So, we had almost $1000 in car repairs.

Yesterday was a very stressful day wondering if we were going to get the cars back in time for us to each get to work (we work opposite schedules today and I didn't feel like having to get up at 3am to take him to work and then have to keep him and D up until after 10pm to come and get me). But everything worked out ok. But, what I am truly grateful for is that we had the money saved to pay totally in cash for the repairs. Thank you, Dave Ramsey, and thank you, Abba, for taking care of us always!