Before I begin this story you should know (if you don't already) that my husband and I own and live in a funeral home. We have three small children, 5, 4 and 1 and it's always entertaining at our house!
So I haven't posted in a while because it's been a little crazy around here. So many things going on in my extended family, really getting into our homeschool year and we were at Disney World last week! Well, we are home now and boy, is it as exciting as ever!
Molly woke up yesterday with a low grade fever and said she didn't feel well. She slept for most of the day but never got sick. She got up twice last night in the middle of the night to throw up, although she'd hardly eaten or drunk anything all day. This morning she got up and threw up 2 more times after having only a small amount of Sprite. She did not want to eat and did not want to drink anything. I realized that she had not peed since the night before and it was nearly noon! With this and a few other symptoms I'd seen, I called the doctor's office and the nurse told me to take her up to Champaign. Well, in the midst of me being on the phone with the doctor's office she threw up again and then she peed and she was fine. It was the strangest thing ever. It was like she was a different child, completely back to herself. She had a little to eat and then had a big supper and we played 2 rounds of Memory and 2 rounds of Candy Land before bed.
Back to earlier in the morning, a little before 8am this morning, Andy opened one of our tall cabinets and a Pyrex pie plate came crashing down and busted into a thousand little pieces. I have cabinets and countertops on all four walls of my kitchen and three of them had glass on them... it was everywhere! All over the floor and all over everything.
We got that cleaned up, the kids had breakfast and then Ryan went into his room and was goofing around and smashed his lip when he fell and had a bloody lip - hysterical crying and all! He recovered well after a few minutes.
Then enter Molly's ordeal (above). All the while in the background I can hear the distant gurgling of our toilets. Both of the ones in our house... on both ends of the house. It was a loud gurgle.
While all of this drama is taking place, Andy is trying to prepare for a visitation in our funeral home. It was just a crazy day of insanity. But, it gets better - much better!
As Andy is walking over to the other side of the house I hear a really, really loud gurgle from the toilets...again, that is plural! I go to the toilets and to my surprise, they are both swimming with "stuff" to the very top! We are getting ready to have hundreds of people in our funeral home (which is attached to our house and uses the same plumbing). We have to have functioning toilets. So, Andy starts plunging. Plunge, plunge, plunge. Nothing. Wait.... a little goes down... a little more... so he flushes it! Enter the flooding. My nice light pink bath rug now has wet (brown) toilet water on it. Hmm... Yep, I'm just standing there... what else am I supposed to do?!?! I grabbed some towels and Andy went and called the plumber! Thank goodness he could come right away. The problem is that he had to open up our septic line... during the visitation. I opened the door to talk to him and the smell outside was not good. Yes, at this point the visitation was in full swing. Wait... what's that I hear... a loud gurgle.... the toilets are unstopped and all of that mess went right into my bathtubs. Wow! Seeing that much of "that" in my tub was very unsettling... I am happy to say that my hands are now feeling very dry from all of that Ajax I used in my tub and my tubs have never, ever been cleaner!
I know all of this is amusing to some of you, but I am so glad to say that I made it through this day! On days like this, I was thankful that Molly's sickness is just a bug and not something more serious. I am thankful that Ryan didn't bite right through his mouth when he fell. I am thankful that I have another pie plate. I am thankful that I have 2 toilets in my house and thankful for two bathtubs to fill up with "brown water" and I'm thankful for cleaning supplies I got for little or nothing to clean it up! Some people don't have kids, or have sick kids or watch their kids go through terrible pain. And some people don't have 2 bathrooms or 2 toilets or any toilets at all.
1 Thessalonians 5:1818 Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
