When we were in St. George the weekend before last we grabbed some food and headed to meet up with family at the park. On the way there our van decided to not shift out of 2nd gear. We are not car people so we debated what to do and checked the transmission fluid. Caravans have a bad rap for needing a new transmission about this time so we were worried because of course it was 7pm on a Saturday night and we wouldn’t be able to get it looked at until Monday morning and planned to drive home on Sunday and… we did not want to be stuck on vacation 🙂
We decided to take it to an old family friend that lived in the area to at least get another opinion on driving home in that condition and it started shifting just fine on the way to his house!! Halelujah!! So – – -we drove home the next day and made it without further incident.

And then a few days later it started not shifting again, I was stuck going 55 on the freeway, glad that wasn’t our drive home from St. George! We were definitely blessed to get home as planned. Doesn’t sound like much but it was a huge blessing especially when you have 3 little kids that may or may not behave. Ends up we had a solenoid (sp) that needed replaced and are back in business – at least for now.

I wish I had went to school to fix cars – that would be a lot more useful in this life of mine. Or maybe learned something about plumbing since I just wrote the plumber a check for a frozen pipe – -boo.

PS – I had a Dr apt today and all is well with #4, yahoo!