Playing a waiting game...

Poppy's still being stubborn - he'll ask to go to the bathroom while still wearing pull-ups, and he'll crap while wearing underpants. The wait and the battle continues.

Today is going to be a busy day with the tin cans. We should know by today when we'll get the new Matrix, hopefully it'll be before Thursday as that's when the next payment would be due for the old Echo - it's much easier and less messy with the paperwork if we switch cars before then, so we can close the paperwork on the old car and go ahead with the new one (plus we wouldn't have to worry about making a payment for January!).

Today (or tomorrow), we'll take the rental car in and swap it out for a van to use to go to the big city tomorrow for the big family celebration for my grandmother's 95th. Being the cheapskate that I am, we decided to use the regular rental car that is covered, gratis, under the insurance plan for everyday use so Pene could get to work. If we upgraded to the van, we'd have to pay $17 more per day plus extra insurance. Fitting the 6 of us into a small Toyota Echo wasn't going to work and it wouldn't have been cost effective to take two cars to Toronto and back tomorrow, especially with Pene still feeling skittish being out there on the roads.

Pene's feeling almost completely back to normal physically, just a bit of buzzing going on in the head which is probably a result of the concussion. She went back to work for the first time yesterday and settled in without too many complications. Mentally, it'll still take time for her to get used to being back in a car and so far, she's mainly stuck to the small roads and hasn't been on a highway or a major thoroughway yet.
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