Sunday, September 28, 2014

Reflections from a rough weekend

This weekend stunk, literally and figuratively. Friday, while enjoying some down time in the evening, I heard a large bang coming from the direction of the garage. I went to investigate but seeing no immediate danger or destruction, I left it for the next day to figure it out. It turns out that the spring for the garage door completely snapped in two. Dad called the repair guy, made an appointment, and by the afternoon and after $500 plus, it was fixed with  new springs, cables and wheels. Also, the washing machine broke. right before the spin cycle. it needed a new part and dad was able to fix it at a lot less then the repair man would have charged, so that was a blessing. the down side was that the clothes got pretty stinky be fore we could get them all clean again. Dads truck broke down and that cost over $300 for three hours of labor and the mechanic didn't even fix the problem.
While the boys were supposed to be taking a nap on Saturday, I heard Kyle yell in pain. I ran towards his bedroom only to find him and his older brother playing in two inches of standing water in the bathroom.  They had tried to flush a couple small lids down the toilet and were thrilled by the fact that the endeavor resulted in a mini swimming pool.  By some miracle, it only got a couple inches into the carpet.  We got to the rest of it with towels and buckets very quickly so it didn't damage anything else.
Then there was this morning.  The boys were taking a bath in the tub and Colin was in his bumbo.  Dad was watching them until I came in to get a hug and kiss. Adam started saying "look at Colin!" we turned around to see Colin under water and I totally lost it. Dad rescued him and Colin was understandably a little freaked out but otherwise fine. I have never been so scared in my life. It took me a long time to stop sobbing.  After all is said and done, the damage to material things just doesn't matter. They are just things and it is just money.  My family is the most important thing in the world to me. I don't know what I would do without any of them.

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