Trials

I came home from mutual the other night to AC leaking through our kitchen ceiling. This happened last year too and was supposedly fixed. Anyway, we turned the AC off and ran all our ceiling fans, which we never do. Gracie's top bunk is just out of reach from the fan, so we thought she'd be fine. However, when I went in the bedroom to say goodnight, she wanted me to fix her sheets. I started fixing them in the dark, and poor little Gracie must have been trying to help by getting out of the way. She backed clear to the end of her bed and just happened to nail the fan. I ran her into the bathroom and was so scared because she had her hand over her eye and there was blood dripping down her hand and cheek. After cleaning it all up, it didn't look too bad, but since it was her eye I took her into the ER to make sure she didn't need stitches or anything. Luckily she didn't, and the cream the doctor prescribed healed her right up. We didn't get home until midnight after waiting at Walgreens after the ER visit. We immediately said prayers of gratitude that the fan didn't get her actual eye and all was well.

The next day Tim started mowing the lawn and our riding lawnmower stopped working too. And that afternoon, both Gracie and Lindsey had two cavities filled at the dentist. I'm pretty sure we'll never get out of debt. On the bright side, Tim and the AC man were able to rig a temporary fix on the AC so we were able to run the AC again in the house.

Gracie's front tooth is loose, so I teased her about having a black eye and no tooth. She just smiled.

We've since undone the bunkbed. We thought it would be nice if my Grandma, Mom, and Aunt, could each have their own bed to sleep in when they visited, but it is also safer for the girls and easier for Gracie to make her bed without it being a bunk, so we're just going to leave it like this for awhile. The closet door opens out, so that posed a problem, until I realized we could just take it completely off and it would be fine. I tried so many different configurations, but this was the best. 

We're definitely starting to outgrow our little three bedroom house! We could have split it more evenly by keeping Olivia and Cooper in a room together, but we wanted to have a queen bed in Cooper's room so that it could double as a guest room. 

It looks like the bed is right up against the closet in this picture, but there is a little walking space between the two.