So many new things

I had written last June about how much money we had manged to spend in about a week.  It didn't end there.  In August, our drains clogged and we had to bring a plumber in to work on it.  At the end of September, our computer died and we had to purchase another one.  In October, the brakes on our van needed to be replaced even though we had replaced them just 13 months earlier.  In November, our dishwasher began leaking and had to be replaced.  Gratefully, there was no damage done to our house that required expensive repairs.  This year Andrew's cars required a repair, although our vehicles are both 2008 models so that isn't surprising at this point.  In March our washing machine broke again, after countless repairs.  We decided this last time that we just needed to get a new one...repairing the part that continued to fail was almost half the cost of a new one.  This week, our stove started acting crazy.  It had happened once last fall and we know it is the electrical board.  Again, one of those repairs that you might as well just buy a new one.  That's what we did yesterday...purchased a new stove.  It was certainly not money we had planned to spend right before our vacation in ten days, but it is what it is.  I'm so grateful for my church hours that are allowing us not to dig too terribly deeply into our savings, and I'm eternally grateful we've made the choices that we've made so we have savings.  I'm grateful I get to be home with my kiddos each day.  I'll take these repairs any day over major medical crises or anything life altering like that.  Knock-on-wood though, hopefully nothing else stops working!