Life can be sometimes you have to laugh about what is going on, because it is really just too embarrassing to cry in public.  Well, today was one of those days for me. Yesterday morning, after just getting settled into work, I get a call from my wife, her SUV has broken down.  So, I pack up and head back down the road, and this was happening while AAA was taking her SUV to the mechanic.

Well, today I got the call, the call that I was hoping that would not becoming in. My family mechanic said the words “The transmission is shot”. Well crap was my reply and then I started laughing. It wasn’t funny at all, but sometimes you have to laugh, because I didn’t want to start crying in front of co-workers when he told me that it would be close to $5,000 to repair her SUV.
I felt like I had been kicked in the gut. I could not believe that I was having this conversation. I was literally going to make the final payment on the SUV next week.

But the next few things almost brought me to tears. I called my father in law about borrowing his truck, he offered to rent us a car. I called my mom, she offered to drive 5 hours to come and stay with the boys so that my wife and I could go and look at cars. And then my Godfather sent me a text and it read “how much money do you need?”

What is love? When those closest to you offer you everything to help you out, without you even having to say a word. Because as each one of those three important people in my life made their offers, I teared up.  I had not budgeted for or even thought that there would on the radar for another year. I had already started thinking through how we were going to be able to save money. Well, so much for that idea, so sometimes you have to laugh and roll on.

And, now it looks like we are going to be looking for a new SUV.