My mother warned me there would be days like this........

I don't tell many people this but sometimes I hold my breath as I unlock the door to the house in anticipation as to "what happened" or "what is about to happen" with the family household. Yesterday was no exception. It was boiling hot, high humidity, and just an oppressive day all around. I had spent 8 hours working through endless emails and paperwork, drove by the gym on my way home 'cause quite frankly "I didn't give a damn" yesterday, and headed for an evening filled with what? My teenager met me at the back door, this is never a good sign, teenagers are usually room dwellers unless they need food or soda, so I knew something was up. "The refrigerator is acting funny". OK I say, "What do you mean by funny?" (now I notice the towel on the floor that seems to be soaking up a small flood) "Well the freezer feels like the frig. and the frig. is warm". Great, just what I need. So I set my purse down and open the freezer. I can already tell that food is unthawing. Next I look in the frig. and it's about as cool as the patio outdoors. This is not good. So my mind starts ticking, I look at my son and say, "let's salvage what we can, we'll get the chest freezer out of the garage, and we'll move the frig. food into this freezer." My son looks at me "We have a chest freezer in the garage?" "Sure I say, I'll show you." We walk back outside, open the garage, and my eyes take a moment to adjust and I point and say "there it is". My son's eyes follow my finger through ten bikes, a lawnmower, rolls of flooring, three thousand entangled christmas lights, and finally rest on a speck of white that I'm claiming is the freezer chest. After some maneauvering, and something falling and cutting one of my toes, we manage to uncover the freezer chest. "Hey this is nice, I never knew we had it", says my son. Now we are often entertainment for the neighbors and tonight was no exception. Picture a 6'1 teenager and a 5'3 mother trying to carry a freezer chest into the basement. At one point while we hauling it down the stairs I'm pretty sure I was horizontal. We managed to get it into the basement and fill it with food. Next we start moving the goods from the frig. to the freezer and as I stood up, I drilled the open freezer door into my skull. I was stunned. My son's eyes were huge, "mom, mom say something"....well it took me a minute to unlodge my top teeth from my bottom before I could speak. Needless to say I have a splitting headache at this point. So we complete this project just in time to have my 9 year old tell me a light bulb has exploded in his room. Magically he and his sister have no idea how it happened....perhaps the pillows that are laying all over the floor can give me a clue, so I start to clean this mess up and unknown to me cut my finger, which I do not notice till I'm putting the freshly washed sheets back on my bed and get blood all over them. At this point I have to close my eyes and "take a moment". I throw the sheets back in the wash, and gather the kids, "We're going out for dinner, it's either that or mommy has a nervous breakdown!" We managed to have a nice meal, get everyone bathed and to bed, and have an 'uneventful" rest of the evening. So everything I had planned to do last night never got done and the kids and I are leaving for a long weekend tonight. So I will work all day, pack, pick up the extra teenager that's going with us, stop and grocery shop and get up to the cabin around 9:30 tonight. However the weather is promising to be clear, sunny and in the 70's for the next few days and just in time. I will deal with the refrigerator next week. For this too shall pass. A year a go I never would have made it on vacation. This would have thrown my life into complete chaos. Last night I never gave it another thought. I completely forgot about what I wanted to do and concentrated on what I needed to do. And it's fine, today is another day. Thank you blogger peeps for listening. I will be gone for a few days but look forward to catching up when I get back. Stay safe and happy......oh, and I will post a Flash 55 Friday.....