I’m trying to have a good perspective and a little gratitude. These are the things we have had to have repaired in the last three months:
1) Our dishwasher stopped working-it appears to be receiving no power. Last month the top rack broke, this summer it stopped working, and last fall it flooded all over our newly refinished hardwood floor because of a faulty seal. All this from a dishwasher that is only 18 months old!
2) Our garage door wouldn’t close.
3) Our furnace went out. We froze for a few hours and paid $500 to replace the motor
4) Our washing machine stopped working.
5) The piece you stick the seat belt into broke and has to be replaced.
6) Our toilet keeps breaking
These are the things that could have happened (this is the gratitude part):
1) Our dishwasher could have exploded shooting shards of plates and glass all over our kitchen
2) Our garage door could have gotten stuck closed and we couldn’t go anywhere
3) Our furnace could have been leaking carbon monoxide and we could have all died
4) Our washing machine could start putting rust spots on all our clothes like the machine we used in Russia instead of just not working at all.
5) The seat belt could have malfunctioned while we were in an accident sending one of my children careening through a window. At least it broke because the extreme cold weather we have been having cracked the plastic and not while it needed to have some weight on it.
6) Our toilet keeps running, the handle falls off and sometimes it doesn’t flush. All of these things are better than a flood of sewage all over the house!
And above all else, our house is still standing! And we can afford to fix these things so we aren’t living in a freezing house, with a perpetually open garage, and having to use dirty dishes and wear dirty clothes.
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