You just gotta laugh....

When it rains it pours here at Dunbar Manor. Let me give you a quick recap of our life just in the last two weeks. Jamy was all set to go on another trip overseas so I had rebooked appointments, made sitter arrangements and all of that sort of thing so that everything was covered while he was gone. The Wed. before he was set to leave I surprised him with a sitter and a night out for dinner to celebrate Valentine's since he was going to be gone. So we go to dinner and spend $30 on a sitter for the night. Then the next day we find out he isn't going on that trip and he will be here for Valentine's. My dad was already coming up that weekend to help me with the kids so we could have had a babysitter for free. That's okay, 'cuz hey hubby gets to be home. Yeah!

So, then we have a windstorm and lose part of our roof AGAIN!! That's okay it was the one part of the roof that we hadn't gotten replaced yet. I called the insurance company and they sent a claims officer out yesterday. The damage $994.99. Our deductible $1000. Are you laughing yet?

Since my dad was going to be here for Valentine's I talked him into staying the night and decided to splurge on an overnight trip to Lawrence with Jamy. Great idea, right? Except three hours after I booked the reservation guess what happened.

Our two-year-old washer dies. We pay the repairman $45 to come out and tell us it is dead and we need a new one. Okay...that is okay, I call the company they will give us 15% off a new one even though our old one isn't under warranty anymore. Better than nothing right?

Six hours after the repairman leaves Weston, who hasn't been sick all winter, pukes all over his bed, his room and himself. Great, pukey kid and no washer! Aghhh, life is good.

We find a new washer, but decide to wait to buy it because our tax refund was scheduled to get here last Friday. Friday comes, we check the website, and yup, the feds released the money. Hmmm... why isn't it at our bank? We call the bank. It can take 2-3 business days to hit the bank. Okay, I can go to McDonalds and it shows up right away, but for some reason if it is a deposit coming from the feds it takes three days. Gotcha! It is now a three day weekend and so earliest we will see it is Tues. Great, 'cuz Jamy leaves for a trip on Tues. So no washer for me while he is gone. That is okay. It is a short trip and he will be home by Sat. We will get the washer then and all will be right with the world.

Okay, now we are up to this morning. I wake up with one of those headaches that will only go away if you go back to sleep for a couple of hours. Problem? I have three small kids which doesn't make that a possibility. No problem. I will just plow through because that is what moms do.

I decided to clean the bathroom. I lean up against the tub as I am cleaning it. I look down I have bleached the leg of my brand new pants. Did you all know SoftScrub has bleach in it? I didn't, but I do now. Keep in mind I haven't bought new clothes for myself since before the kids were born. These pants were two weeks old. Aggghhh, life is good.

Then I go to get in the car to pick up Abby from school. Battery is toast. Great, no problem. So I load the little ones in the stroller and we walk down to get Abby. It is cold but fresh air is good, right? No worries about the car because my mom just happened to be coming through today. I will use her car and jump my car and all will be good. Except its not. Nothing happens when I jump it. That's alright. I couldn't happen on a better day because Mom is here and she can take me to Topeka to the base where I can pick up the truck. Aaagghh....life is good.

I am sure I forgot some craziness, but you get the idea. My point, you ask? Here you go. No matter what life throws at you you have the great opportunity to choose how you will react. I could throw my hands up and cry or I can say, "Wow, aren't we lucky!' I am going to decide we are pretty darn lucky. See all of this stuff could have happened a couple of months ago when money was really, really tight or it could have happened while Jamy was gone for a big deployment. But it didn't. It all happened in the last two weeks. Right when we were scheduled to get a big tax refund. My car could have died on a day when I had no way to get to the base to get the truck, but it didn't. It died on the one day my mom just happened to be coming down anyway.

So see, even when life is crazy it is all good. Now I sit here in the quiet house with the kids all asleep and wonder what tomorrow will bring. Hmmm...maybe I will just stay in bed. Better not tempt fate, ya know!? After all, a girl can only be Pollyanna for so long.