Count Your Blessings

About this time last night, 1 am or thereabouts, I was cleaning the litter box.  Oh the joys!  I know it is not a normal time for these such things, but the litter box is in the laundry room, which is connected to our bedroom.  While I was leaving the laundry room I noticed a little bit of water on the ground around the water heater.  That did not look right at all, so I got my sweet husband to ask him if it should be that way.  Nope, it should not!  UGH!  My poor, sweet husband spent the next couple hours getting the water/gas lines shut off and draining all the water out of the heater.  Turns out the top of the water heater was corroded.  New water heater is in order.

Cue the next morning.  I spent a few hours on the internet and phone calling around to everywhere and anywhere trying to find the best price possible on a water heater.  Our budget for one is almost non-existent.  While I was frantically calling around a friend was also making a call.  Her parents flip houses and they have a water heater that they just replaced with a larger capacity one.  Nothing at all wrong with it, they just don't need it.  They are graciously donating the water heater to us!  Talk about a blessing!  It is a slightly smaller capacity one than our current heater, but that's okay it should still work.  We'll make it work for as long as necessary.  Not having to come up with extra money right before the holidays is huge.  So thank you SO much to our wonderful friend and her amazing parents.  You have no idea how much this means to us.

At those times of life where things aren't looking great, just hold on as you don't know what is just around the corner.