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Water woes and the W;NK Think Show! @ 09:41 am
We are spoiled. We expect things to always work. You turn the key and your car starts. You flip a switch and the light turns on. You turn the faucet and hot water comes out. These past few days have shown me just how much we expect things to work and how everything gets thrown off track when they don't.
Our water heater died on Tuesday. Thankfully, we were able to purchase a used one for pretty cheap from the BooKites. Yesterday, Matt and Dave got it loaded up in Dave's truck and brought it home. :) Matt got it all hooked up (after running to borrow some tools from Pastor Keith) but we weren't getting any hot water out of any of the faucets. Now i don't know anything really about plumbing so i was no help. Matt banged on the pipes a bit and eventually loosened up the gunk from the bathroom faucet so we have hot water in there and MAN OH MAN it feels great! Now if only we could get the kitchen and shower working.
It was pretty anticlimactic. Matt felt like he was a failure because he couldn't get the shower going for me. I tried to reassure him that it was ok and that i was disappointed in him. He told me he would fill up some bowls with warm water and dump them on the in the shower so at least i could get clean. I didn't want that. Funny how close we are, you would think it wouldn't bother me. I just felt vulnerable. I told him that maybe he could just keep the warm water filled in the bowls as i took care of business. He agreed.
He let me struggle for a few mintues before he asked again if i wanted him to pour the water on me. When he reminded me that i would do the same for him, i finally agreed. What a blessing he is to me. It was a very sweet moment to have him take care of me in that way. I sure do love that man!
The shower was wonderful because boy, did i need it! I didn't want to take another cold shower on Wednesday so i just washed my hair. Cynthia and I ran yesterday in our new shoes. I'm glad the guy at Running Wild warned us that we were going to have to do a few easy runs and wear our shoes around a lot to break them in before they would feel good to run in. I immediately missed my other shoes when we started running. I wasn't feeling the greatest anyway, it was humid and my allergies caused my sinuses to swell so it was hard to breathe. We reached the 1 mile marker as out 10 mintue timer rang and Cynthia suggested we turn around since her knee was kinda bothering her. I would have kissed her had we not been running. My calves were killing me. We ended up running 20 mintues total and i was very glad to be done!
I came home, took some advil with a glass of milk, grabbed two bags of frozen veggies and iced my legs. When they felt better, i decided to head downstairs and clear out the area around the water heater. Turns out that it was January 2007 that we bought that water heater so there was 5 years of stuff piled up around it.
I grabbed some gloves and a garbage bag and got to work. We had a mound of blankets down there that needed to be washed so i threw a few in the washer as i worked. Once i got started i was pleased with how fast things moved along. We don't have as much crap down there as i thought we did. I found a few things for the garage sale i'm hoping to have. I went to move our old aquarium and noticed that the water wasn't going down very fast in the drain. Sigh. I just kept plugging away and soon the basement was looking pretty decent.
When the washer was finally done with it's cycle, a lot of water just stood there in the basement. UGH! I grabbed the "klunger" and set to work. After about 30 minutes of plunging and praying and crying i gave up and came upstairs. I decided to just leave it and i'd deal with it later. It's all very overwhelming.
After i picked up Isaac, i put on some Gilmore Girls and ended up taking a little nap on the couch. Woke up in time to run out the door to Walmart to get isaac new shoes, shorts and a glove for t-ball. And draino. and more garbage bags. and coffee. We headed back to Red Star to wait for Matt. He was in a meeting and didn't get out til 3:20. Poor guy. He's had such a stressful week with working late and meetings and class. His finals are next week and then he'll be headed out to CA to see Miranda graduate. He deserves the vacation!
Soooooo, tonight Matt has to go to his friend, Will's to take their math quiz and then he'll be home again to start in on the pipes. Please pray with us that the gunk will break loose and we'll be back in hot water before long.
Wednesday was our last night of W;NK for the year. JoAnna came up with a game show for the kids to review the year. Tim K thought up the name...the W;NK Think Show! Here is the game board. The categories are..Who Am I?, Name that Tune, Pair-a-Bull (the parables) and The Bible. Each kid got a turn to pick a card and Tim read the corresponding question.
The blue team
The Red Team!
Everyone wins!
Finished out the night with snocones and popcorn :)
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