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Well here we go again. A new year and frozen pipes. We spent the New Year in Kenora Ontario with the Wittmeier family because our daughter will soon be moving in with them to help out in their church.
God blessed us with a mysterious couple sending us a cheque for $400! It was american so we got almost an extra hundred. We were so in need that day and I had been sitting there so badly depressed over our financial situation. We had not even been going to have Christmas except our two oldest kids had bought the food and presents and a wonderful new fireplace (electric - stone) for me.
We ended up having a great Christmas with both Josh and I on the mend. I had half of my third toe on my right foot amputated on December 5th. Another story that one.. including running out of gas! Then while I was still recovering and not even walking yet, Joshua had surgery on his right foot for an ingrown toenail on his big toe. SO both of us sat the entire holidays out pretty much. However, he recovered much faster than I did of course as his wasn't as serious, and he also was way younger.
We enjoyed our time out and had fun at the WIttmeiers too. During the Christmas season, someone also bought boots, ski-suits and other things for our family which were and still are such a blessing to us. God has shown us that in 2009 He is blessing us.
However, the problems still multiply. We came home to frozen pipes. sigh... they stayed frozen for an entire week. Well the HOT water was, then it warmed up on the weekend and we got it back. Our washer however apparently had a leak in the pipes somewhere and we never got that back. It is a sheet of ice around the pipes down there so the boys are trying to deal with that issue today. However, the hot water has frozen again due to the windchill sending the temperature so low. It was down to -48 C last night! Extremely cold. Our van will not start today and I do not even know how Kyla-Dawn got to work.
So here I sit at 10:46 am, nobody has had breakfast yet because we are trying to work on pipes and get things in place to warm them up and get our hot water back, and I am sitting here with my foot throbbing and burning trying to get everyone organized and myself in gear. So much for school or anything else I had planned.
Depressed? Yup!!!
I am trying to not think of the money this is going to cost us that we do not have. I am trying to stay positive about it all but it is not easy today when the boys keep arguing over everything we need to do. I know it is not fun for poor Michael who at 13 is the only one who can get down in that back crawlspace, but he has to do it and there is nobody else!
So that is how my new year has begun. I went about 20 hours with no diet coke then the stress got to me when the adjustor for our insurance company came yesterday and later that night, I went and had some diet coke again. We are trying to at the least cut back on it but preferably quit.
Well enough whining on here. I need to focus on something more productive I guess now that I have vented.
We just called the company recommended to us and he refused to even come. He is too busy. Call the town he says it could be their issue so now my husbad is doing that and in the meantime, I am sitting here paralyzed at all of this that is beyond my control and knowledge and most definitely finances!!!
