stay cool

First, let me start by saying holy freaking moly, it is H-O-T! I hope this heat wave ends soon. I'm not a huge fan of 100+ degree temps.

I've had a bad week. It started when our fridge stopped working on Monday -- our two year old, $3k fridge. The repair guy deemed it un-fixable so Sears is going replace it since we had purchased the extended warranty (thank goodness my husband is a sucker for an extended warranty because I remember saying, "We don't need an extended warranty. What's the worst that could happen?") The replacement fridge is on backorder until the end of August. What the hell am I supposed to do without a fridge for a month? I'm too tired to think of a solution other than pulling my old dorm fridge out of our garage and eating out every night for the next month. Sounds like a plan. There are a lot more details to this story... details that involve me cussing three ways to Texas at three separate customer service reps, a complaint letter four pages long and one supremely dissatisfied customer.

My patience has been tested this week. Not only with the fridge issue, but as a mother, a wife and personally. Ollie hasn't been sleeping well and Jake has been exhausted from long days at work. Add this to me feeling less than steller about my current post-baby self and we have a big old party of pity. All week I have felt anxious and annoyed. Today, after I dropped off Ollie at school I had ten (rare) minutes to myself and my first thought was to call my sister and bitch about my fridge some more. I took a deep breath and then another one and another one and continued to breathe deep and enjoy the solitude of the car, with just me and my own thoughts. I needed those ten minutes to regroup with myself for the week. To prepare for a weekend of mothering and wife-ing. To look past the bad and move onto the good. I don't really know why I am writing this, I just felt like putting it out there. To say thank you to God for my wonderful husband, my beautiful baby and all the blessings of my life.