Goodbye, Big Brown

We sold Big Brown today because we bought a new car which we are sooooo excited about. Why then did I find myself crying when the new owner (a cute little old grandma) drove it away today. I thought I must be crazy to be crying not only over a car but this particular car. The more I thought about it I realized exactly why I was sad to see it go. This car was the hugest blessing to our family, only we didn't realize it at the time.

Admittedly we were a little bit embarrassed when Alan got his new job and we bought this old car. We joked about it not being the image we had in mind. Now here we are five years later...This car hasn't broken down, not once in the last five years. We have never been left without a car since we bought this car. Not only that but I think we learned some life lessons from this car. The first one, being humble. This car taught us to be humble as we drove around as it developed more and more little funny quirks over the years for us to laugh about. This car also taught us to be grateful. We got everywhere we needed to be because of this car. This car gave us something to depend on while we went through some pretty tough but special times over the last few years.

When we felt prompted to adopt and we knew the cost was far above what we could afford we were scared and very unsure. Alan's dad gave me a blessing and we were promised that if we did what we felt like Heavenly Father wanted us to do that we would have enough money and that our temporal things, our possessions would outlast their regular functions and life expectancy's. This has been recognized time and time again and we know that big brown was one of those blessings for our family. We know that Big Brown was a blessing from a Heavenly Father that truly loves our family. So now realizing all of this I don't feel quite as crazy for crying about big brown leaving. I'm humbled and very grateful...