I would KILL for a '98, although I am fond of our good car, a '91 Infiniti.

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I think we're waiting until this summer to start test-driving minivans. Depending on what DH's raise actually comes through as bring-home, we may also consider buying used.

The Honda's a '97--and the truck is only a two-seater.

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Cindy, our only car is the '98.

As is our only truck.

So Minnesota=Brigadoon?

Yup. It's why I never make it to F2Fs. :)

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It's not allowed to break down. Damn it.

I hear ya, Plei. Our other car is a '91. It fills up with water. Dh has not done anything about this (like just take it somewhere, to see if we can get that to stop before the bottom rusts out). It is a car, in that we have to pay to insure it, feed it gas and oil, and it still makes it to the train station, and back. Dh better start building his stamina to walk the entire mile+ up hill from the train to our house.

Assuming Chris gets into kindergarten, I will have one brief, blissful year, with all three kids in the same school, and the school is only about 3 blocks away. Of course, they won't all be going at the same times, but...

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Just talked to my parents. The scan they did on dad's heart this morning was inconclusive--no sign of clotting in the damaged portion, but that doesn't prove there wasn't a clot there before causing the problem. Also, they found a small spot on one of his lungs (he had lung cancer ~10 years ago), but because of the size and placement can't do a biopsy without surgery, and it sounded like they hadn't decided if/when to do that, since it'd involve taking him off some of the blood thinners he's on because of cardiac/TIA issues.

So, to sum up, we don't know anything. Argh.

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Ugh, Susan. Many prayers for him.

Robin, any word on how your niece is doing?

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Damn, not knowing is hard. Much health~ma to your dad, Susan.

Does Massachusetts have school buses?

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Does Massachisetts have school buses?

Yes. I think they're town based, but I'm not even sure how it works. You can't take a bus unless you're at least a mile out from the school, I think. You have to pay if you live under two miles from the school. I live in a dinky little town. I think there's only one elementary school that is as far as two miles from my house. The high school is two miles from the house, though.

It's a very short walk to our elementary school. It's just that the sidewalks aren't clear this time of year (still a lot of snow), and the weather is going to be rainy, once the snow goes away.

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After a eulogistic paragraph on each of the good and decent offspring who stayed in the area, there was a final cryptic sentence: "The (Lastnames) also have one other son, who no longer lives in Minnesota."

You have a Jaye-like blurb!

Health~ma to your dad, Susan.

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Thanks, Cindy. I just realized that I had no idea. I think of them as being everywhere, but every place I know the policy on doesn't have them.

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