Megan headed towards home for her eight hour drive around mid-day on Friday. She called me an hour or so later to tell me she had a flat tire! Oh man. What a way to start a trip. I suggested she call her brother since she was still kind of close to where he was. Fifteen minutes later she called again and said the tire was changed and she was back on the road! FIFTEEN minutes! Before she told me what happened I was seriously impressed with that girl's ability to do anything. (and I still am) What had happened was a man had stopped to offer help. She was nervous about a stranger doing that, but she thought he seemed to be very careful about how he acted. (He didn't get out of his truck right away until she had accepted his offer of help.) This mama is Oh So Thankful for that man. I asked Megan if she saw any wings sticking out the back of his shirt or if his name was Michael or Gabriel. :)
The rest of her trip went smoothly. She even arrived home sooner than she first thought she might. And her dad got home from a trip an hour earlier than he thought he would too! Ahhh. We were all together again. (Well, minus Caleb and Amanda.)
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After we ate some supper, Megan started in on her PILE of laundry! What college student wouldn't rather haul home tons of laundry than pay good money to do it. She didn't being it home expecting me to do it. She's been doing her own laundry since she was in 6th grade. By the time the first load should have been done, Megan was in the laundry room checking on it. Soon came the yell of, "Mother, it's never going to empty!" (Why does she call me mother when she's annoyed?) I went in to see what was up and smelled something not good. The machine was full of her clothes and water. Thankfully, it was clean water. So the washing machine is dead. Megan and Zach worked on wringing out her clothes and Zach siphoned the water out. So we put very wet clothes in the dryer.
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About a half an hour later, the carbon monoxide detector started going off. Right when we were getting ready for bed. We couldn't figure why it was beeping. The pattern didn't fit any of the scenarios printed on the device. We debated for a while what to do, then decided to call the fire department. So about 12:30AM a very kind fire man came to the house. There were no toxic fumes in the house. Thankfully.
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The fireman asked us when the last time we cleaned out the dryer duct. (It was still running with Megan's clothes.) He went outside to see if he could feel the airflow at the vent. There was not much coming out.
Saturday morning the hubby called a friend who's wife was coming to the shower (yes, we were having a bridal shower for Megan here that afternoon), so he brought some equipment to help clean out the duct. They ended up working on it for 1 1/2 hours. It was plugged with two bucketfuls of lint and all sorts of grunge. The crazy thing was the way the duct was routed. It was probably 30 feet long, where the shortest route to the outside of the house is probably 5 feet. (There was something muttered about mental midgets --- referring to whoever built the house and decided to do that.)
I'm convinced those string of events were orchestrated by God to prevent a fire that likely could have started under our bedroom right over the utility room with the furnace and water heater and all that stuff.
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Zach and Peter were trying to figure out how to start up the sprinkler system. Zach ended up doing some of his amazing problem solving abilities to figure out that there were some pieces broken on it.
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Kind of minor-ish, but the dispenser part of the ice-maker stopped working.
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It took Pete probably 45 minutes to figure out how to change the garage door combanation.
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The bridal shower was a booming success! I think we had somewhere between 30-35 people here. Whew! My friend Jen was great to work with. She wrote an awesome devotional for Megan. I think my favorite line was when Jen said the best thing about marriage is getting to do life with you best friend. I wholeheartedly agree.
The day before I had called my sister-in-law and asked if she would say a blessing prayer. I thought it would be sweet to come from a family member and I knew I would blubber all over the place. Well, sweet Aunt Kathy shared a beautiful prayer, but blubbered her own way through. It was a special moment. Here's Megan and her Aunt Kathy.
Megan and Zach were blessed with many wonderful gifts. We didn't really play any games. Mostly because the planners (Jen and me) don't like shower games and so we didn't plan any! I did ask Zach a dozen or so questions about himself to "see how well Megan knows him." That was okay. Not a great hit. The best thing was a little video Jen put together. She interviewed a few children from church and asked them questions about Zach and Megan and marriage and dating. Oh, it was SO funny! The stars were the sisters that are going to be the flower girls in their wedding.
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Saturday night we had a nice dinner out to celebrate Pete's birthday. We went with Megan and Zach and our friends Mike and Jen. It was fun to celebrate Pete and to relax after a very busy day.
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Today we have another showing of the house. Thankfully hubby dear helped get everything back in order around here.
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Tomorrow the really nice appliance repairman will come and hopefully make everything all better.
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You forgot that the dryer now smells "funny" when we run it. And that the water softner doesn't seem to be softening the water any more. And... I'll stop there.
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