My boyfriend and I have a blended family and together we have 6 children. Both of us went through divorces about 4 years ago and neither had good credit. My vehicle was a ’99 Toyota Corolla and he had a Chevy Silverado, we could never go anywhere with the whole family unless we wanted to take to vehicles. This was a real issue and prevented us from a lot of family activities. So after reading The Map I wrote out some intentions and began thinking of having a vehicle that our whole family could comfortably ride in and we could afford.

We focused our attention on having a Honda Pilot but left it open if something else would fit what we needed. I thought about having this car a lot and every time I would see one I would visualize myself having one and get so happy.

Within a couple months my boyfriend got a raise (bringing in more money was also one of the intentions) and we started looking for a car. Knowing that realistically we didn’t have the credit and we had no down payment but we did it anyway.

He found a dealership that approved him (first miracle) so we packed up the kids and drove and hour and a half. When we arrived to the dealership the truck was almost out of gas but we were running late so decided to wait until we were done to fill it up. My boyfriend befriended the sales manager who also had a blended family and they were both from the same area of Texas (we live in Cali) because of this they made us an offer to trade in the truck as a down payment. The truck was realistically only worth about $2,500 to the dealership but they gave us 4k.

The first approval didn’t go through so they had to find another finance company and the only way it worked was with the money from the trade in. So after 5 hours we took all of our stuff out of the truck and put it into our Honda Pilot and before we left they filled up the tank.

The synchronicity of this whole experience was insane and nothing short of magic. Oh! and the Honda was gonna be more than the payment we were making on the truck but the increase equaled the amount of my boyfriends raise!! Now as I am driving down the street I look around at what I am driving and look at our whole family sitting in the back and am so grateful and know that I really can create my universe.