Car trouble and its ramifications

Friday, as I was driving my kids to their dad’s for the weekend, my “check engine” light started blinking at me. I told the kids, “We’re going home.” I talked to the car all the way home, “You can do this, baby. You’re a good car. We’re almost there, honey! Oh, you’re so good. I’m so sorry, I promise to take you to a shop on Monday morning.” The kids said it would have been funny if it hadn’t been for the danger of us being stranded on the side of the road.  Does anyone else do that? Talk to their cars when the car is threatening to break down?

We got home safely, and a friend had time to take me on a quick grocery shopping trip yesterday. So I’ll be taking the car to the shop (only two blocks away! Yay!) in the morning, and today I’m working on my menu plan for the week using pantry and freezer contents, along with the little bit of stuff I picked up yesterday.

And hoping like crazy that the fix is low-cost and quick.