False summit

Have you ever been climbing and you see the sky up ahead and it looks like you are almost at the summit only to realise that it is a false summit and you still need to drop down and the climb up some more in order to reach the true summit. With a wrong perspective that can be disheartening. That is how our days have been lately. Filled with litlle peaks and deep valleys. We got our van back on friday finally with a new transmission, it last the weekend and went bad again on monday. My lost bag arrived finally with all of its contents intact. The check engine light came on in the van that we had borrowed for Rachels birthday party scavenger hunt at the mall. When we arrived home with a house full of teen girls -we had no hot water because it was all pouring out of our hotwater heater onto the floor of our basement. The summit is in sight but I think that it will be a long difficult climb. With Thanksgiving that we have made it this far.