A week and a half ago, on the Wednesday before Mother's Day, I walked into our kitchen at about 8pm after getting off work a little later than normal. I fed the dogs and went to the sink (in my sock feet) to discover our entire floor covered in a pool of water. Of course I automatically thought my dogs must have gotten into something. I don't know why I would think that. They always look so innocent......
Cute little pals. But back to our story...
I found that the water was coming from our freezer. I opened the door and with water dripping everywhere, it was obvious that we had a situation on our hands. I think those are the words I used when I called my mom. "Mom, we have a situation, is Dad there?" My mom has heard this line before. In fact, this calls for a side story.
* When I was in high school, my friend Meredith and I were on our way home through the back roads in the dark after a rainy day. I couldn't really see how deep the water was across the road. Although I've drove these backwoods roads dozens of times, knowing they flood. I just didn't have time to turn around and make curfew so I drove right through. Bad idea. My car flooded and died. I then, intelligence shining, opened my door to see how deep we were. Deep enough for the water to rush in my floorboard. So I called my dad and said "Daddy, I've got a little bit of a water situation here" Dad, always my shining knight, comes in his truck, with the whole family shining flashlights and laughing as we sat barefoot on the hood of the car waiting for assistance. Meredith said "Oh you just never know what kind of fun adventures you get into with Jill," Kyle probably thinks the same.
I must add that as I'm assessing the fridge, I am home alone of course. Kyle is on shift for another 3 hours. Ahh. Police Wife Life. It still feels a lot like Army Wife Life. Since my parents are my "on call" backup, I tell them my woes and got to hear my mom's encouraging story of how she had three years in a row on Mother's Day a large appliance broke down and she had to purchase a new one, I was really hoping this wouldn't be my luck. We had had a storm the night before and it looked like the odds would be against us on this one. I could feel my vacation budget getting smaller. The freezer had basically thawed out and everything in it was just barely icy. I called around and invited myself to use some friend's fridge and freezer space and packed up all my food. I came home and used my car headlights to shine as I searched everywhere for our cooler in Kyle's dark shop (really hoping we get electricity soon!). By the time I got inside to mop up the rest of the water, I was starving. I left out hot dogs and carrots to put in a cooler with ice. Which we lived out of for 2 days. We do like to camp, just not in our own home. So at 10pm I was mopping water and eating a less than exciting hot dog supper.
My dad saved us on Friday and brought over 2 mini refrigerators until we could get ours looked at. It felt like dorm living. But I turned out to be very talented in packing large amounts of food into tiny spaces. You don't know how much you miss having ice until you don't have a freezer.
Finally, after a week and a half, we were able to get someone to take a look. They were able to fix our fridge for a relatively minimal fee considering. So instead of buying a brand new refrigerator, we can start vacation planning again! I'm so thankful that it came out best case scenario. Thinking of the minimal damage there was to my flooded car, my phone that survived 3 toilet drops, and now our puddle of a fridge that came through for us, I'm beginning to think maybe I just have a knack for getting out of water mishaps. Or maybe getting into them....Hmm.
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