What a Week!!

It has been a hectic week that has been full of unexpected joys and frustrations. #1 Tuesday we went to the Blue Bird Cafe to hear Phil Keaggy, Randy Stonehill, and two other guys. This was a great night of beautiful music! However for our normal routines getting to bed at midnight was rough. We were looking forward to a slow day on Wednesday. We were very excited about Wednesday because we were getting our new washer. The old walked across the floor several feet with every load and sounded like a helicopter was in our house. We bought the new one on clearance from Lowes. It was a great deal and make life much nicer. As I was pulling dinner out of the oven, Robb was putting in the first load with anticipation of a quiet dinner. We decided to quickly go change clothes before sitting down to dinner. When we came back into the kitchen there was in inch of water on the floor. The picture above is me sweeping water out of the door. After getting the water out, we had every towel in the house sopping wet and the clothes that had been in the washer were also wet. We spent the rest of the night at the laundry mat and returned home exhausted. Thursday night was dedicated to begining the poject of ripping up the damaged floor. We had one of the couples from our church over to help with this. I really did not feel like entertaiing but ened up enjoying being with these sweet people!! On Friday we went to a Jewish temple with a guy that Robb works with. It was a wonderful experience. I grew up often going to a Messianic temple in Atlanta. The entire night was very inspiring. Maybe a future blogg will highlight some of the thoughts that were spurred while there. Again- not an early night. Saturday (today) was our first Angel Food pick up day. We had to meet the truck at 5:45am to load food and then take it to our church. It was early!! But it did not take long to do. So we came home and took a nap before going back to the church to actually give the food out. It was fun and has the potential of being a great ministry oppertunity! Robb and I decided to take advantage of the tax free day and went to Opry Mills. We had a great time shopping but came home to one of our puppies having a stomach issue while she was in her kennel. YUCK!! The smell was aweful. We ened up having to give Lili a shower. It took both Robb and I to get her clean. Thank goodness we have a full shower. In the end Robb and I were covered with hair but Lili is now clean. Needless to say I am glad this week is over!!! In looking at it, it could have been alot worse!! At least the washer is not on top carpet. It will take us a week to get the new one fixed but, this will be a good excuse to go read at a laundry mat, which will take me back to college days. fun times!! Hopefully this coming week will be a little less exciting!