48 Hours.

I know I haven't posted anything on here for quite some time ... and this is small to everyone else, but it was big for me.

The past 48 hours have been absolute hell for the Despains. I took it the worst. It all starts Sunday ...

Problem #1 

Sunday we left church right after the sacrament was passed because Devin's back was hurting him really bad in the pews, so we decided to go home and let him rest after a long weekend of work work work. When we got home, there was a high pitched alarm that we've never heard before, going of so loud that we couldn't speak to each other. We went to the basement and discovered that it was our sump pump.

It had been raining since around  7 am very heavily, and when we got to our basement, it was about a 1/4" from overflowing and flooding our basement. Which would have been a tragedy, not only because floods are bad, but because we have been spending all of our extra time and money on that basement, trying to get it finished. That would have ruined everything. Had we waited 5 more minutes to leave church, or waited until the end, it would have, no doubt, been flooded. Tender mercy #1.

Then the plumber told us it would cost around $600-700. Ouch.

Tender Mercy #2, the plumber called back after he left and talked about his two daughters, and their husbands, how we reminded him of them, and that he knows $600 can be hard to cough up when you're young and poor. So he gave us a pretty hefty discount.

Oh, and did I mention that I had to stay up all night long Sunday night manually draining our sump pump because the plumber couldn't fix it until the following day?

Problem #2

It's not supposed to snow in April. It did. And it killed the flowers that I spend hours Friday and Saturday planting. They looked absolutely beautiful, I spent lots of money making them that way, and now they're dead. Well, hopefully they're not quite dead, maybe they just look sad? But hopefully they come back to life.

Problem #3

Our electrician came back to the house to finish up all of our lights and outlets in the basement. We cut most of our holes too big. When you put the lights up in the cans, and the covers over the outlets, there are gaps. Devin and I spent HOURS painting like 5 coats of primer and paint on the walls Friday and Saturday, and then my electrician mudded all over everything, and now I have to sand more, and repaint these areas. So frustrating after so much hard work. 

But .. after all of this stress and emotional disastrous events, I look out our front door and see my husband walking up the driveway, carrying a bouquet of my favorite flowers. He said, "Hey honey, I love you, and I know you've had a bad night and day, so I got you flowers to make up for the ones that died" ... Seriously, I have the greatest husband in the world and I wouldn't trade him for absolutely anything. I like him a lot :)