Are you in the mood for a heart-warming story? Then hear the lovely story of our Monday…

I dropped the kids off at school and swung by the store on the way home. When I came out of the grocery store I turned on the truck, it vrooooomed at me like a race car and complained the rest of the way home. Whiny car. Muffler problem. We stuffed the little girls in the van and Hubby hopped in the truck so we could go take it to the shop. He backed the truck out…. and the van wouldn’t start. The van has a light switch by the sliding door and apparently one of the kids had turned it on and left it on from the night before.

So Hubby pulled back into the driveway, jumped the van, and off we went. We dropped off the truck, Hubby hopped into the van, and we headed home. And then the van started slipping out of gear…. and barely made it up the hill….. And it has been lazily sunbathing in the driveway ever since. Must be rough! It better be enjoying it’s little escape though because it’s getting repaired on Saturday and after that it’s back to work, work, work!

Well, after that Hubby was in a somewhat unpleasant mood so he went upstairs to go console himself by glaring at his computer screen (and who doesn’t feel better after that??). After about half an hour I hear a big crash followed by further frustrated sounding noises. Then his computer chair had a one way ticket down the stairs. In two pieces. Somehow the back had broken off. Overall, it was not the most cheery day. On the plus side, Monday was card night so my buddies came over and we played cards for a couple hours.

Here endeth the tale. You weren’t really expecting heart-warming, were you? At least it ends well. Our super-car-guy-buddy-turned-mechanic-who-makes-house-calls came over to take a look at it tonight and he said that it’s not the transmission like we originally thought; it’s just a U joint, which is much easier and cheaper to fix. Phew! We’re pretty delighted about that. Guess we’ll see if that’s really how it goes…

Rachel