National lemonade day

It really is! So since we're talking about taking lemons and making a sweet tangy drink...

Yesterday everything that could go wrong did. And as fast as possible, too. 

Here I am having a wonderful morning and getting a lot accomplished. The floors are all vacuumed and swept. Keith is happy and playing in the living room with himself. Then at 2pm...

1. The washer decided to leak all over the laundry room (after we thought we'd fixed it)

2. As I was putting the clothes in the dryer, to free up room for all the wet towels in the washer, the whole house went dark and we lost power. 

3. Losing power simply let me hear a trickling sound from the AC closet in the hallway. 

4. Investigating (in the dark) showed that the puppies had dug around the run-off pipe and it was up in the air where it couldn't drain. 

5. As I sopped up dirty water with our remaining dry towels I hear a poopy baby  crying in the living room. 

6. Once Keith is changed he gets deposited in his crib to cry while I dash to Dani's to borrow Nate's shop vac. 

7. I get home to find the puppies had gotten on the back porch a month or so ago. They destroyed our only outdoor extension cord then. Back over to Dani's. (After Tiger scratches my arm)

8. I feed the dogs their supper to keep them out of the yard while I suck out the AC pipe with the shop vac. It works. It only takes as long as Tiger takes to eat his supper and Twig's, too. Twig won't come on the back porch again, so she goes hungry. 

9. I get Keith up and feed him. 

10. I go to the attic to get our revolving fan down. I want to dry out the hall closet. The attic door is broken and I can't pull it down. I leave the closet door open and stuff my last two towels on the floor. 

11. I removed the air valve to the washer drain so I could finish those (3) loads of stinky wet towels... The laundry room smells like the septic tank now. 

12. I feed the chickens, clean up from feeding the dogs, feed Keith again, make supper and start laughing. 

13. Steve gets home. He's not laughing. 

14. We work all evening on the washer and attic door. Neither get fixed. We still don't know why the washer won't drain and have to replace the attic entry and ladder. 

15. 4 roaches and misc. other bugs get in when we have the front door open so we have a squishing party before going to bed. 

16. Twig howls at trains passing 50 miles away. (She just learned this skill and has been practicing. Late at night. Under our window. She's really good now.)

17. We got to pray for almost half an hour and immediately fell asleep. 

Buuuuut! Keith was absolutely adorable and happy all evening.

What do we learn from this? God will provide...but I have no idea how :) This will be cool.