Even when you try hard to have a nice quite holiday season, sometimes God throws curve balls.
It all started when the door handle broke off with me and Laura inside, she was screaming. Eventually pulling the hinge pins and having our neighbor knock down the door solved that problem. Of course later that night I broke out in hives, and I also broke out in hives the next night; I thought it might be time to see an allergist. Then later in the week, I left the lights on in the van, of course I did not realize this until Monday morning when I had to call Karen out of her clinic to come rescue me. By now it was raining very hard and our garage had already flooded, and of course I fell in the water trying to push a very heavy mini van out of the garage to jump start it in the pouring rain. Then later that evening the flood really came as water poured in from the walls of the fireplace and came up through the floors. Our church group quickly came over and helped me save our home theatre, books, and furniture. Once again our neighbors saved the day by loaning us their shop vac. I vacuumed 200 gals of water up over the course of 12 hours. Then of course we all got sick, I came down my sinus infection after seeing the allergist and learning I am highly allergic to cats (no results yet on avocado, which also explains my banana allergy, since avocado, banana and latex are the same allery group). Then I called my parents this weekend to learn my sister had an anaphylactic reaction to the latex paint she was using to paint her new house, and just got out of the hospital today. Maybe Santa will be extra nice to us when Christmas day finally arrives (assuming we all make it to that day…)