cars are just cars.  unless you're me. 

today we sold our 2004 expedition.  we bought it new (before dave ramsey)
and even upgraded to the deluxe version with a DVD player and 3 headsets (an upgrade from the usual 2 because we had three kids.  we were hooking EVERYONE up with this purchase.)
honestly, we had no business buying this vehicle; it was too much money and we financed it for too long.  but we loved it. and i had been driving a piece of crap voyager minivan (not even a grand voyager...just a plain one) and we succumbed to temptation and bought the truck.  See?  it wasn't even a car.  it was a TRUCK, a bad ass machine that could handle a screaming kids with the slip of a DVD.  Just open up that sunroof and let the freedom in.  yep.  that's what i thought. 

we sold clifford for several reasons: we didn't need the room.  i don't carpool any more.  everyone drives.  two are leaving for college.  3 people don't need an SUV. 
and we needed cash.  college is expensive. so again, clifford to the rescue.

when we bought Clifford, our kids were 7, 9 and 11.  they are 15, 18 and 20 now. 
a lifetime.  of carpools.  and field trips.  and vacations.  of trips to school and the ER and baseball games and plays and PFO and swim meets.  of double buckling more kids that were legal and staff road trips.  trips to the vet.  of peace and quiet and my music when i needed that.
of conversations.  and singing bohemian rhapsody at the top of our lungs. 
of life as we lived it.  the good and the bad.

things change.  we have to as well. 
thanks clifford.