It's not summer until....

It's just not summer until something happens to our family unit. My memory has faded over time, but the past 3 summers in a row, but our summers are definitely not boring!

Two summers ago, a giant tree fell on our family van totaling it and sending my Autistic son into a spiral of full-on anxiety about storms that we are still trying to help him work through. After a month or so, the family settled on a nice little Toyota Prius. I got teased by my friends about turning liberal because we went with a hybrid, but honestly, we couldn't find a van in our budget that we liked and the idea of a $25 fill up was extremely appealing. The kids fit in the car and we bought it. The Prius has been good to us for almost 2 summers.

Last summer, we lost the baby. That post is here and I can't bear to walk through it again. Suffice it to say, last summer sucked.

So now we are at this summer. It started off like a normal summer until the day of the deer, otherwise known as "día de los ciervos". I was coming home from VBS with 2 of my kids and one of their friends. Out of nowhere, a brown and white blur appeared in my right-side vision then a loud thump. When it was all said and done, we were all just fine in our little, tiny Prius, the deer however, did not fare as well. We got home, I made the phone call to the friend's mom. "Yes, Mrs. S she is fine. Just wanted you to know in case it settles in later..."

Then calls to my husband....yes hubs, I have wrecked the car. Yes, we are fine, but the car is not...

Then calls to the insurance company....

Then we had to decide what to do about the family trip to Florida that was supposed to happen 4 days later. We couldn't take the rental because we only had it until the insurance company settled or repaired. The adjuster came and declared the car totaled. There was rejoicing in my house because, of course by now, the kids have outgrown the Prius.

We borrowed a van and headed to Florida. While there we had more phone calls. The insurance company may want to fix the car instead. They are towing it to the body shop, we'll be in touch. All through the trip we didn't know what would happen to our sweet little Prius. Hubs and I have decided that if they want to fix it, we'll let them, then we'll trade it in for a van. Right now, we don't know what'd going to happen, but since it's summer in our family, it's bound to be interesting!