What Next? Do I Dare Ask?

I hope I don't sound too whiny here, but sometimes don't you feel that way - what next?

Our heater (furnace) started being funny on Wednesday, Jan. 9. Luckily Mike was home that day, and helped me out and got it running again. But it was still acting funny (would stop heating our house) so we had someone come look at it Thursday night after work (the babysitters husband does Furnace and A/C work - that's nice). He cleaned a sensor and all seemed well, but it wasn't. The heater was still turning off at night and we were waking up to a cold house. For the most part we could get it going again, but not on Saturday night. So, on Sunday we called the repairman again. We found out that the circuit board had a short and that it would cost $550 (including the visitation fee) to repair it, or we could buy a new furnace because ours was pretty much at the end of life stage. Wow, we weren't expecting that. And we're not very good at making big decisions on the fly, talk about pressure. After talking with Andrew and doing some searching online we decided to pay for the part ourselves and have Mike install the circuit board. Then we would save for a furnace knowing we would have to do it in the next year or two. But that meant no heat from Sunday through Wednesday. Good thing we have a gas fireplace, otherwise I don't think we could have made it. We also borrowed some space heaters from UVSC. The other good news was that the kids were at the sitters all day the three days we didn't have heat. That was a blessing.


All in all, Mike was great!! He did a great job of putting in the circuit board. I should give him credit, he is becoming more handy by the minute.

This is the other big thing that happened. The Monday while the furnace was broken I had a guy in my ward come over to work on our wireless. I don't know why our wireless is so hard, but I'm sure glad we have a friend who fixes it for us. Anyway he brought his 2 year old son with him and while we were playing in front of the fireplace with some toys we don't play with often, Emma had an accident. She dove face first off the couch and hit a "Little People" toy. It is plastic and doesn't have sharp edges, but I think it was the force at which she hit it that did her in. I knew just looking at the cut that she would need stitches. So, I said good-bye to our computer repairman (he was nearly done and Mike and Ashton stayed home) and Emma and I went to the Insta-care Clinic. I new it would be cheaper than the Emergency room and would take about the same amount of time.

Emma was great. She was happy, and pleasant, until, they gave her a shot to numb the area. We waited in the waiting room about an hour, and then got in. A nurse brought her a pad with some numbing stuff on it that Emma held to her face (still very pleasant). Then the Dr. came in. The nurse held her face, and I held her hands (on her chest). She screamed during the shot, and scrunched all up, but didn't put up a huge fight. She didn't like getting the stitches (3) but she did pretty good. And all the nurses gave her so much praise. That made her happy and pleasant again. The Dr. even blew up a glove and called it a fish balloon for her. She got a sucker and a bouncy ball. In total it took about 2 hours. It was a long night. But she was a trooper.



By the next morning we believe she had popped out two of her three stitches (Mike could only see 1). We went back one week later to get them out (the one out). She really only did have one in and her scar was a little bigger because two of her stitches came out, but oh well. She healed, that's the key.

There are good things that happened, so I should talk about those too. We took the kids skiing on the Saturday that the furnace was broken. Emma was so good on the hill. She was so excited to be skiing. I swear she was the most pleasant child, I could hardly believe it. Ashton on the other hand struggled. He just isn't motivated, and wasn't into it. Mike was getting frustrated with him because he wasn't paying attention. We did free skiing at Alta from 3-4:30 and got in two runs. It was plenty. I'm sure we'll do it at least once more this year. Nothings cuter than little kids on skies. They did get a little cold at the end, but they did pretty good. I think we will wait for more spring skiing conditions before we go again.



Thursday night (the night the repairman came) I got to play basketball with the ward. My skills are only used for a couple of weeks of the year, so they aren't up to par. But it is fun to play and good exercise. I didn't make any baskets (I plan to next game), but it was still fun playing. Maybe I should do some practicing.

The Friday night that the furnace was still in it's funny stage, I got to go to a girls night. We went and got dinner at Mimi's. I had already ate dinner, so I splurged on a dessert. It was delicious. We spent several hours just hanging out and chatting. It was really nice. Thanks ladies!!!