Normal Days

Somedays are just "normal" nothing exciting happens, life is just as we know it. Somedays are exciting, there is something that we have anticiapated happening or something we love goes on.
And then there are THOSE days.

The normal days I get a little bored of. I mean, cleaning, errands, mundane is so overrated.

The last almost three weeks I have found are so non-normal. Exciting, some of the days and some of THOSE days? You bet! The THOSE days were a little more than I wanted to endure. I will post os some of the exciting enthralling days soon, but today, lets just, hopeully get over the those days.

We lost our dog the first day she came to live in our new house, that would be New Years day. She ran away. It took LOTS of WORK to get her home. We got her home, but we acquired a new dog before she came home. Sunny got "rescued" one more time on her own. We thought we had the problem solved, a dog tag and an electric fence. Roxie, our new dog, and Sunny are great playmates. This past Friday, we took Sunny to the park with us, Roxie stayed at home as she is a much younger dog and harder to get to mind. We played a long time. Ryan chaied Sunny up and one of the other boys brought Roxie out and unchained Sunny. When it was time to feed Sunny and Roxie the boys went out and found no dogs. We looked and couldn't find them. We just hoped and prayed that we would find them. . . Saturday, the call came they had been picked up by a policeman and taken to the pound. Now, Roxie is a younger dog, and we weren't sure if we were going to keep her. . .So, we didn't spay her and take care of her. . .So, we went to spring the two dogs. Almost three HOURS laterwe left less one dog. . .You see Roxie couldn't leave without having to pay two HUNDRED and fifty dollars for her not being spayed. . .or their vets could spay her for free. . .she will hopefully come home on Monday.

In the midst of the dog craziness, I came home after being gone about forty-five minutes to find about an inch of water on the main floor of my house in my FRONT room -- the connection to the toilet in my boys bathroom had failed and we had a flood of epic proportions. LOVELY. The carpet is still pulled up awaiting Jake's assistance in relaying the carpet We just hope and pray that we didn't miss the water and are so grateful I was ONLY gone forty five minutes :).

I used almost all of my towels in the flood and my washing machine decided to have a pump go out. I have been without a washing machine all week. I ordered the wrong pump online. We had company twice. We got new trees, sixteen holes needed to be dug.

My renters called and said the dishwasher in that house was under recall and they had had problems with it leaking. A new dishwasher will be delivered and installed on Tuesday.

Yep, the past several weeks has been tough. Here is to the normal mundane days. I look forward to them. I am grateful for them. But even more, I am grateful that each of my challenges has made me more grateful for so many things, as my pile of laundry is being whittled away and my new trees are now in the ground with the promise of many delicious fruits. I have to remember that the normal days are blessings that I need to remember to be grateful for. The dry ground in my house and no floods when I come home from errands. . . Challenges come, and they truly try me at times, but I think I need to be grateful for each day.