Wow.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Wow.<\/p>\n
So, I have crossed over a thresh-hold that I never thought I would cross.\u00a0 We were successful in the haggling game of buying a car and we are now the proud owners of a mid-size SUV.\u00a0 To go from a Toyota Echo<\/a>, which is about the size of a two seater bicycle, to this (a lovely, wonderful, comfortable, reliable, stylish Pontiac Torrent<\/a>\u00a0-sigh) is a euphoria unlike anything I have ever known.\u00a0 We drove home from our vacation feeling happier, and roomier, than we ever have before.\u00a0You never know how cramped you are until you are un-cramped.\u00a0<\/p>\n The old “selling out” question has come into play, I’ll be honest.\u00a0 I’m just uptight enough to have worried about my prior disgust with our biggie size culture\u00a0and whether or\u00a0not I am becoming all that I find detrimental to our society.. Blah Blah blabity blah.. You know what?\u00a0 My kids are safer, happier and much (much!) more comfortable – and so am I.\u00a0 The AWD and airbags to spare make me feel much more secure.\u00a0 And, you know what, in my little bug of a car I was never noticed in the midst of all the 18-wheelers and oversized trucks and uber-sized SUVs.\u00a0 I like feeling heartier and more noticable on the road.\u00a0 The XM radio doesn’t hurt either.\u00a0<\/p>\n It is just one of those “nevers” of mine that has put me in check.\u00a0 Never say never.\u00a0 And leave your judgement at the door – because, one day, you might just be all that you say you hate and you might love every minute of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Wow. So, I have crossed over a thresh-hold that I never thought I would cross.\u00a0 We were successful in the haggling game of buying a car and we are now the proud…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-smart-buying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}