Last night after I woke up at 1 AM and stayed awake for an hour, I began to wonder if it was really wise of us to sell our second vehicle.
I sure thought so at the time.  We would save the car payments, the upkeep costs, the auto insurance, the licensing fees and the fuel charges.
I assured my husband it would be no trouble for me to get the kids up and get in the car with him to take him to work on time every day. Hey, that way we would actually have a start time to our day.

Fast forward to one...or is it two?..months later. He is now working one earlier every morning.  This means we have to be out of the house by 5:30AM. Eeeek! I know the 5 year old is not going back to sleep, and here I am, up at 1 AM? How will I function?
This is when the idea of buying a horse as a second mode of transportation popped into my head. Don't all of our best ideas come in the middle of the night?  Consider this one for a moment, and it is ok if you laugh while you do so.
The horse would need to eat, right? Lawn = grass, grass= food ergo, horse=completely environmentally friendly lawnmower! With the added bonus of then fertilizing the lawn. How perfect is that?
A horse would also help me with my goal of getting the family on a regular exercise routine. I mean, when we look in the backyard and see our horse, won't we want to saddle him up and go for a ride? Seems perfect!
Except, as I said, our backyard. We live in the city. I don't think the neighbors would look well on us for having a horse in the neighborhood. Perhaps I could convince them of the free fertilization benefit of the whole idea.
Then there is the actual transportation idea, can he really ride a horse 7 miles each way to work every day? Once he gets there, what will he do with the horse? He suggested he might have it fertilize the boss' car. I couldn't use the horse; after all, I have two kids to transport as well.
The last consideration is the initial outlay and the cost of upkeep for the horse. My husband wants to spend about $2k on a second car. I think could manage a horse for that.  I have no idea what vet bills and horse shoes cost, but can it really be more than oil changes, engine tune ups and new tires?
Tomorrow I want the car to take the kids to the Children' Museum and he wants to b in by 5AM, this means that I will be leaving the house in 4 hours and 21 minutes to take him to work, and here I sit typing away at the computer.
What do you think? Should we get a horse, or another car?
Perhaps we could get a big goat.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />