Cars, Prayers & Dads

I had a very interesting day today. I wanted to run to the

beauty supply store real quick before I had

to get ready for work. So I loaded the dogs in the car.

After getting my stuff I went out

to my car and it wouldn't start. It had been giving me some

trouble with not wanting to start for about a month,

but I could always get it going. Not this time.

So I called my dad and he said he was on his way.

After trying to start it off and on for about an hour

while waiting for my dad to get there, I decided I needed

some more help, so I said a little prayer.

I normally wouldn't pray about something like

"Please start my car." I usually pray for things like

"Please let me get there safely" or "Please don't let this truck hit me"

after all the Lord is not a mechanic, & I feel like

He has more important prayers to be answering.

But I did it anyway.

My dad arrived with some reinforcement, he brought his

neighbor who knows more about cars then my dad does.

I was never so glad to see my dad in my whole life.

They finally got it started long enough to get

it to the auto repair place.

So I dropped it off and went home to wait for the diagnosis.

My dad thought it might be the starter. Which is not cheap.

He was guessing it might cost close to $500.

Crap that is a lot of money.

Good thing I just got a check from my roommate

which means I would only have to take a little bit

out of savings to cover it.

So I was prepared for the worst but still hoped for the best.

But when the mechanic called he said it was

just the battery. Which ended up being 1/5 the price of

what I thought it might be.

So after all was said and done, my pray was answered.

My car did get started, and things did work out

better then I could have imagined.

Even though I only prayed for my car to start,

the Lord blessed me more then what I had asked for.

It's amazing how aware He is of us.

I am grateful for the love showed to me today

by both my earthly father and Heavenly Father.

I'm a lucky girl!!!

(This is me right after I first bought my car in

2003. Yes my hair was way shorter

and I was a lot skinnier!!!)

LABOR day

This Labor day weekend I decided to take it literally &

I did a lot of laboring around the house.

I have a roommate moving in this week so I had

a lot of organizing and cleaning up to do.

I didn't take a lot of before pictures, but you can just

imagine how messy closets get before you feel

like they need some organizing.

This is my newly organized hall closet.

This closet is the "after"

I had to condense two closets into one,

so this is as good as it gets.

Pantry

Fridge and Freezer

This is the spare bathroom. I wanted to change the

shower curtain for my new roommate. The old one was

hard to slide on the rod. It was extra tall so

when I took it down it ripped the paint and some

of the wall off and I was not able to hide it.

This is the new curtain, not bad for Walmart

Ugly holes "before"

No more holes "after"

The numbers on my mailbox were falling off,

so I decided to get new ones. Of course the

parts of the stickers that were still sticking were

extremely stuck. It took forever to get most of the

sticky stuff off. I did the best I could.

"before"

With the new numbers and

I repainted the mailbox door

"after"

It's always nice when your house is nice and clean

Happy Labor Day!!