A Happy Update!!!

I have a quick* update on my last post where I asked why do bad things always happen in threes?

We took our car into the dealership on Monday night and explained what the problem we were having was and what we thought was causing it.  Once we got this far, the clerk told The Husband that if it was in fact the water pump, as we believed then it would be covered by the dealership at no cost to us. (Apparently although there isn't an actual recall, if my make and model of car comes in with a broken water pump, the dealership has to replace it; I guess it's an internal recall.) When we heard this, we began praying (literally) that it was the water pump.  For the last two days we have prayed and prayed that the on-going problem with my car was the water pump and today we finally got the call that that was the problem!!!

Since the car was in for a repair anyway, we had a transmission flush done as a normal/preventative maintenance measure.  This we had to pay for to the tune of $228, but that beats the heck out of $700-900 which is what we would have had to pay if there wasn't an internal recall on our car! I'm still so happy and have thanked God so many times. This is a great time to remember to praise The One who delivered us this blessing.

One of our budget categories is car repair, which I guess is not the most aptly named category.  In addition to actual repairs we need we use this for maintenance and tires. In all honesty, we use it more often for regular maintenance. Anyway, in the category, we currently have $150. Although it won't cover the whole cost of the maintenance we had done, I only have to come up with $78 which isn't bad at all considering what I was worried about just a couple short days ago!

Also in that post, I talked about our water heater timer getting fried. We didn't have as much luck there as with the car, but we came out ahead of where I thought we would there too.  One of my brothers owns a plumbing company and he was able to get the timer for us for $120, that's about $30 than the cheapest price we were able to find online. The company overnighted it to us and we didn't have to pay shipping so that's another small win!

I'm so happy my financially tragic weekend has turned out better than I ever could have hoped just a few days removed from the actual events! Seriously, what a blessing: we expected to be out over $1000 from last weekend and we only have to pay about $350, of which we already have $150 saved. This is another great example of remembering when things work in my favor and when I'm the lucky one.

*PS - I guess this wasn't such a quick update after all.