a little petition

I have a little petition for your prayers. Our van has had some serious problems this trip. We took our car into the shop for the third time and this repair was quoted at 1,300. Ok, so we have already put more into the car then it is worth and thus we decided we are not going to do this repair. It is the AC which is sort of a luxury thing...you know the car still works AC or not. But in Vegas its not really a luxury its a necessity when you have three little ones to drive around. But thank heaven it has been working on and off. I drive back to Reno in a couple days and I really need it to decide to work for that drive. I know this is so lame but could you say a tiny little prayer for our AC? Eight hours driving in the Nevada Desert is not something I want to put my kids through without the AC.

Now we are starting to have to try and save whatever money we can to buy a car by next summer. I figure I can make it through the rest of the summer heat and through next spring without it but at that point it will be time for a new van. We are so grateful that we even had this van. It has been a heaven sent. However, with 200,000 + miles on it the writing is on the wall.