One of Those Days

     Saturday was just one of those days.  I slept in and Layne woke me up to tell me that we had water in our basement.  We had suspected something was wrong for a week or so as that room downstairs smelled funny in a dead rat sort of way.  He cut into the wall and found a cracked pipe.  I couldn't bring myself to see the gunk which came out of  it....straight from our kitchen sink!!  But the boys came up and told me they needed to put boots on so they wouldn't get gross stuff on their feet.  Hyrum told me there was poop coming out of the wall.  I guess decomposed food (from the disposal) in the wall would take on the appearance of poop and the smell too.   Luckily, Layne was able to fix it.  Hooray. 

    After dinner, I noticed that my Christmas ornament wreath I made a few years ago was still up above my pantry.  I put it up there using our 9 foot ladder and I was being lazy about not wanting to bring the ladder in to take it down.  Let me preface this story by telling how making this simple looking wreath was quite the chore.  I roped my mom and sister into making them too because it was "so easy".  Well, first we hot glued the hook part on the top so it wouldn't pop off....we hot glued HUNDREDS of ornaments.  Then we started threading them onto a wire hanger that was formed in a sorry-looking circle.   That seemed easy enough, but it was kind of hard to get each ornament to lay right and look right, etc.  When they were all threaded on, there were a few bare spots so we hot glued some ornaments on top of the others.  Last year, I hung my wreath outside and everytime my front door slammed, an ornament would pop off.  This year, I hung the wreath in a safer spot, above my pantry.  When I got it up, I noticed there were a few bare spots so I climbed my ladder with my glue gun in hand and glued more ornaments on while it was hanging.  I thought was pretty cute.  Okay.....so, yesterday I asked Layne if he could stand on a chair to get it down for me.   He was having a hard time getting it off because I had tied it around the hook holding it.  I told him to get some scissors which he did, but then he didn't have enough hands to hold onto the thing as it fell to the ground. CRASH.  My beautiful creation lost about 25 ornaments or more and it looks so sad.  The top of the ornaments are plastic and they just cracked where they are threaded through the wire, so I don't think there's a way to salvage it.  Yes, I'm bummed.

the wreath before the accident

     As if we hadn't had enough broken things for the day, we got ready to go to the Adult Meeting for Stake Conference and couldn't get the garage door to open....thus we couldn't get our cars out.  Layne tried using the emerency cord and got it part way up, then it came crashing down and the bottom part of the door isn't even on track.  By some miracle, we got it up all the way and Layne held it up while I backed both cars out, then it crashed back down and looks very broken.  We went ahead to our meeting and Layne said he'd look at it on Monday.

     It was quite the eventful day....I think it's funny that my ornament wreath is a bigger deal to me than either of the other disasters.  Mostly I'm grateful that we own our own house in which a pipe could break and that I have a husband who could fix it.  I'm grateful that we have a warm garage to keep our cars in and that we have the money to fix it.  I'm grateful that I even have time to make things like ornament wreaths and that I spent a frustrating but fun afternoon with my mom and sister.  I'm sure they'll want to get together and make more of them!  HA...my mom still curses her wreath!    Oh well, the point is, we are blessed and I am sooo grateful for my many blessings.