Student Cars or Desperation

Hahahahah!! If you can't tell--I'm cracking up.

Sorry, it's just when I think back on how my husband and I lived in the early years of our marriage it's a bit lotta funny. We had this cute little silver Honda and man, were we hard on that car. I'm not asking, I'm telling.

I didn't recognize the thing after the first year of our watch. But when we moved from Utah to D.C. it held up really well. Mechanically anyway if not cosmetically. And yet we only had one vehicle for a very long time. I think we had one vehicle for the first three years of our marriage.

But by the fourth year, by the time I had two small preschoolers and needed to make doctor appointments and go grocery shopping at the commissary on base then it was time for a second vehicle. We couldn't function on one. So we bought this other Honda, a little red Accord and it was so cute and cool and I thought it was so high tech at the time. But I laugh when I think back and realize that the previous owner wanted a window tint and obviously couldn't afford it and so they did it themselves. Luckily we bought that car when the self window tint was starting to go South and it was literally bubbling and buckling in places.

It makes me smile. We were so excited about that thing.