Ever Wonder??

Have you ever wondered what could happen next? Seriously, I think I'm ready to move back to Ohio and...

Actually it's not that bad! However, God sure is stretching our faith right now. Why do I say all this? Well Saturday morning our van decided it just couldn't handle hauling us around anymore. I mean... come on now... would you enjoy hauling seven Tolley's around day in and day out? It could become quite monotonous. Troll went out to start it to heat it up before he left for Allenwood and "BANG" it went; spewing oil and coolant all over the place. So Troll unloaded all the stuff and ran for our pastor's car (which thank the Lord was parked two doors down or Troll would have had a heart attack with his vehicle exploding and then running). He loaded it all into that and left. Monday my parents stopped in and my dad checked it all out. They put 3/4 of a quart of oil in it to see what would happen. Started right up it did, it did! And then it proceeded to spew oil once again. (I have a feeling underneath our dear, beloved blue beast it looks rather muggy!)So we have determined that we are done being hauled by the dear. It's been a wonderful vehicle. Taken us from 11,500 miles when we got it to 178,000 miles now. We've had it almost 7 years. Never given us any fits. However, the last few summers the A/C has decided it no longer felt like cooling, the heater decided it really didn't need to be warming this winter and the driver's window went on strike this past fall. Other than it leaking in a few spots so that whoever was sitting in the back seat would get wet as it ran down their seat belt and the carpet is wet so that it smells like a sick mutt....it's been a great vehicle!! Now we get to do the thing Troll seriously hates most....car shop! Lord, please help me as I struggle with keeping my husband in a decent frame of mind so that I can find us a good vehicle!!

And THEN...today.
I got home from the grocery store and opened up the pantry to put our food in. First I had to steal all the Boxtops off the boxes so that I'd be prepared for when my kids attacked me every time their classes have a contest with those goofy cardboard things. Thankfully I only had a few to steal and so went to put the cereal away first. I thought I'd check the existing boxes to see how many crumbs were left in each one when I noticed that some of the boxes felt damp. Upon further investigation I realized that not only were some of the boxes damp on that top shelf...they were quite soggy and in dire need of someones attention. That wasn't the only shelf that had been baptized either. The farther down I got in shelves the more I realized we had a serious situation. An hour and a garbage bag full later... I saw we needed a plumber? Ha!! No, nothing but a 1/3 of our pantry ceiling caving in from all the water it was holding! Course not that it had much more to hold as it was all in the boxes in the garbage bag and on top of cans. I mean to tell you it was so wet in some spots that noodles had started to cook themselves and they were laying there all nice and smooshy waiting for my fingers to find them. Kinda reminded me of sinking my fingers into those rotten potatoes on that crop farm I used to work at as a teen. Nothing worse than that. Thankfully those noodles didn't smell like those potatoes. So anyway, that's been the exciting thing around here. Not much really. Just thought you might enjoy a weekend in our house.