right now I am sitting in my living room coughing and trying to breathe better.. Kids are at school husband and youngest are napping.. it is peaceful and quiet and is about to end because in about 20 minutes I have to wake them to get going to Dr appointments.
So what has happened.. what has not happened! so lets start on a peaceful freezing Tuesday evening right before bedtime...OUR Darn stove pipe on our basement wood stove falls off! Of course it has a roaring fire in it, as we were getting ready for bed.. My husband is down there trying to put the thing back on, smoke is filling the house, i am rushing around opening doors and windows, getting the kids up and locked in my room with towels under the door, they actually ended up in my closet with rags on their faces..
I go down stairs to try to get the dam pipe on, to find out it is rusted and broken off! again smoke is still pouring out no place to take logs as their is no external exit from this basement... we had to toss water on the fire to get it out to get the smoke out of the house! OF course even more smoke and it is billowing everywhere, Joe and I can not see to get out of basement... youngest is crying because his eyes hurt, they are too afraid to go outside by themselves, and they were already in Pj's, thank the Lord it was not worse.... NO fans to be found to push smoke out, only a very small natural gas heater on the far wall of the living room to attempt to keep a 4 bedroom 2 story home warm. we slept in the living room all smashed together on the floor with all the blankets.. some how they slept, I meanwhile was staying up to be sure everyone was ok and no more smoke appeared...
Of course we all had massive headaches, congestion and dizziness come to find out that we all got carbon monoxide poisoning OOHHH I am pissed. of course our lovely landlord comes at 9 am the next day to attempt to fix the issue. Raised a fit because he had to purchase a new stove pipe.. and it took him till 1pm to get it attached because he is a "man" and would not take direction from anyone... Ya I gave him a piece of my mind about him being a slum lord and having to take care of things.. blah blah blah...
so I finally get the fire back and working thank heaven because Wednesday night brought the ice storm.
NO school on Thursday or Friday, I am guessing with all the partial melt off we had 3 inches of ice not counting all the snow. ccoold!
Kids fought like crazy all weekend, mainly because we are all still sick, and the huge boredom factor of being stuck inside because it is to cold to do anything.
church was peaceful on Sunday, ended up being a substitute for the 3-4yr old children's class. I loved it even if they did end up taking turns playing Mr Potato head on my phone. We came home changed our clothing and went to our friends for dinner, and to pick up another donation to our family. Which means we took the trailer with us.. First thing that happens is Joe overshoots a driveway to turn around in and gets our van stuck in a ditch, not just a little, NOOO because he is a "man" and can not listen to anyone when they suggest stop so it is not worse, nooo they know how to freaking drive! ya ya ya, we were stuck up to the running board on the back end!
Kids and I went into the house and left it to the "men" to get unstuck, I had enough for one day.. dinner was nice, LOVE her homemade wheat rolls! and the chair we picked up is comfy too..
OH and Joe has a job. not a perfect job but job enough to help make the ends meet a bit closer in the middle.. thank the Lord for that...
So we are still here, ready and waiting for whatever comes at us....
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