Need a New Transmission, again...

Corey went to the gym this morning, and on his way back, his car wouldn't change gears. It's an automatic, and he could tell it was stuck in 2nd cause it was revving, and then it started smoking from under the hood. He was at an intersection and was able to turn into a neighborhood and then he called a tow truck. He had it towed to Freeway Transmissions, where we should have gone in the first place. Tanners has a 5 year warranty, but we are NOT taking the car back there to just have it be stuck there for another 3 months. Ugh, so frustrating. I am, however, grateful that it didn't break down on me when I took Corey's car to the temple this morning. Yet, despite our trying to be optimistic, the problems caused by Tanner are not over. It "worked" for 17 days. I am, however, grateful that the car is now at a place where there is customer service and a place where we have reasons to believe that they are competent. We talked with Mario a lot in December, and he was more helpful to us than anyone at Tanners. I'm sure we'll find out soon what the bad news is, and that Freeway Transmissions will call us and we won't have to call them over and over again to get any answers. So yes, that is good news. And, two more items of good news: This isn't Valley Forge, and we are not stuck on an ice flow in Antarctica. The sun is shinning today and spring is coming and this is just a mortal experience. Thankfully we are not faced with making any decisions where life or death  hang in the balance. I'll take it and I'll try to keep murmuring at a minimum. I will probably need to go on morning walks and watch the sunrise. I did that this morning.

I saw the sun set tonight too, on my way home after a ride on the road up the canyon.

I watched the sky until all the pink was gone, so for 5 min or so. I took a ride after getting home from the park. Logistics today were: Abi had a rehearsal in American Fork for a lyceum concert this Saturday. She came home and went by the school to pick up Owen to take him to sleep over with Ethan and Bella. I didn't have a car, so I walked to the school with K in a stroller to meet Abi and get Owen. Owen got checked out and he and Abi headed out, K wanted to go to the park, so we stayed there and found Daniel and Peter before they got on the bus, they wanted to play, so they played and it was a nice weather day, yay.

They had fun and then we walked home. Usually K doesn't want to walk. She wants to be held or pushed in the stroller, but today she walked the whole way! Of course that left us at the mercy of her agency if she didn't feel like following us, which happened once and caused a 5 min delay. Daniel and Peter were very patient and just sat on the sidewalk while she started to walk around in the church parking lot.

She's cute. The kids had leftovers for dinner while I cleaned up after my ride. Corey worked late but he's home now, time for scriptures.