When it rains, it pours.
My day started with a visit from my electrician. $55.00 later and a more detailed estimate of needed work to come, my small lighting problem is only temporarily solved. Upon closer look under the house, there seems to be a leak. Make that two.
Two calls to plumbers, one afternoon visit and a $95.00 check later, the leaks under the house are fixed…. as is the loose ductwork that I didn’t know existed… and then my contractor shows up.
We just finished a home renovation and it now appears time to ‘tally up’. And as the day goes, the cost is, let’s just say, a good bit more than what we’d intended. As is life, I try to brush it off, keep focused and put my kids in the car to head to get my needed oil change.
Would you like your tires rotated, the round, tattooed, grease under his nails gentleman asks? It appears you declined before, he chides with a smile. It will just take fifteen minutes… and it’s only $24.99! And so I agree,- he seems friendly and knowledgeable and this has now left me feeling mighty responsible and proactive in my car care duties.
Forty minutes and $70.00 later I find there is a large problem with not only my brakes, but also my tires… and my alignment.
I pack the kids, head to the store where the tires were recently purchased because surely they’re still under warranty, right? Only to find out that they’re not under warranty, though the tire rotation I just paid $24.99 for would have been had I come to this place first. Nice to know.
I’ll pick my car up tomorrow. It’s going to cost more than the tire rotation. More than the plumber. More than the electrician. Probably more than my contractors ‘tallies’ even.
None of this storm was planned for today.
When it rains, it pours.
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And yet, I must let it rain. The reality is that, all of this will pass. I sat at dinner tonight with a husband with whom I have an amazing relationship and two of the most beautiful, considerate, kind, smart, healthy children in the world. These people are my family. And this is what has no cost, cannot be replaced and what is truly, the most important.
Rain away.
~K
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