So, I wrenched my back last night while horse playing with Mark. I love that we still DO just mess around and horse play. It keeps us laughing and enjoying one another's company. I don't enjoy how much I hurt today though and how hard today has been. Just picking up Cody is torture. Just changing Audrey's diaper, even though she climbs up onto the changing table herself is very painful. :( Just sitting, standing, or laying down, is excruciating today. Ibuprofen, Tylenol with Codeine and my ice pack have been very good friends to me today. While I'm not pain free, the combination of those three takes the edge off.
I'm still working on getting things together for the boys birthday party tomorrow. So far we have:
*pinata items prepped
*bean bags from colored balloons for games are done
*colored rice with Mickey Mouse confetti for sensory table is ready to go
*beans are soaking for baked beans that I will do overnight in my crock pot
Next item is to make my BBQ sauce that I make from scratch. I use my friend Hallee's recipe you can find here. I do a couple things a little different, but that's my base recipe. Thank you Hallee for what has become a favorite in my family.
In between all this, my washing machine overflowed the other day. It's bad people. My room smells musty from the water I just can't seem to get out of the carpet area. Thank goodness the fix was an easy one. It was a zip tie. Yeah... you read that right... a zip tie. I paid the Sear's repair guy $75 to diagnose and give me a 3 inch zip tie to put on a hose that had come off. It would have been $109 if HE had put the zip tie on. LOL At least it was easy.
And onto my next thing: I have a MAJOR pay it forward to do. As many of you know, money has been extremely tight in the last year. EXTREMELY. I had mentioned on a FB board of good friends that I didn't know how I would pay to get my washer fixed. Within an hour of the post, a friend put $75 into my PayPal account so that I could get it fixed. I did not ask my friend, or anyone for that matter, to help me pay for it. I planned to try to sell as much as I could from my Etsy shop to pay for it. I will be ever forever grateful to this friend for this beautiful gift. Not only does it show the depth of our friendship, even though she is one of my online friends I have never met in person, it also shows me how God works His miracles every day. I'm sure she would agree with me.
Since I can't afford to pay $75 forward, at least for now... I have a sale in my Etsy shop. It's for 25% off of anything. Use the code OVERFLOWINGWASHER and you will get 25% off. There are some beautiful felted scarves that would be perfect end of the year teacher gifts. This code will be active until I've saved my customers and friends $75.
Thank you to my sweet friend. You know who you are. <3
