We are EXTREMELY blessed!

I’m going to get pretty deep here on this post. This is raw, this is who I am and this is about MY faith. I respect everyone has their own way/relationship with God and/or no relationship. But oh, how I wish everyone did because as cheesy as it sounds when you really sit back and think and appreciate how God is with you at every moment of everyday it really is a beautiful thing.

I’ve mentioned here before that we are in the middle of a transitional period right now. Mike has switched jobs with has cut down our income significantly. It will go back up and it will be more than it was before the change but for now, its not and money is tight. Really really tight. To say that’s extremely stressful with 4 kids would be a vast understatement. I’ve questioned “why?!?” more times than I can count over the past 3 years but yesterday I was reminded that God is here with us, God loves us and we are EXTREMELY blessed.

It all started Tuesday night at around 6:30. I went to make Tenley her last bottle before bed, flipped on the faucet and nothing! No water came out! I looked at Mike baffled and said “uhhh…babe, we have no water.” Mike was visibly annoyed from the get-go and went downstairs to check things out. We have a well and until now have never had an issue so haven’t really had to learn much about wells. So, Mike texted our neighbor, Bob, who was in the middle of a business meeting, he stepped out his business meeting to call Mike immediately and started to try and help him with the problem. When we couldn’t fix it on our own/over the phone, he told Mike to go to his house, grab some gallons of water and take a shower. We got the kids to bed and then Mike and I went over where his wife and daughter were home and they were so eager to help us out. Without a second thought. I felt terrible because they all looked so tired and as tired as their were Bob offered at 8:30 at night, right after walking through the door, after working all day and then attending a meeting, to come over and check out the well. Mike thanked him but we decided we would call a professional in the morning.

Which brings me to Wednesday morning. I had Kamryn out at the bus stop and another neighbor was out there with me with her grandson. I know they’ve lived in the neighborhood longer than anyone else so I asked her about our problem and explained what was going on. She told me about a guy that lives in our neighborhood who has a well drilling company that I should call. Told me to say they referred us and he would give us a good deal. (If you know anything about wells, you know this can be extremely expensive to fix) Pat (our neighbor) rushed home, got the name of the company and the number and brought it back to me. Mike immediately called him and set up an appointment for that afternoon.

The guy was here a half hour early, eager to help, as nice as they come and when Mike explained our situation he helped so much to get us great deal. I’m talking saved us over $2,000!!

My Dad (and Dee) saved the day by helping us buy the part to fix the well. I mean, their grandbabies need water. We just don’t have that extra money right now and are so extremely thankful they could help us out.

But it doesn’t end there. The part won’t be here for just about a week. So what’s a family of 6 supposed to do?? Well, where we live we are pretty spread out from our neighbors. Our house sit’s on an acre of land. We have one neighbor that’s house sits behind ours though, down a hill and back up again through the woods. (And you learn something new everyday but) You can run a hose from another home to your home to use their water and bring it into your house and your water runs just the same as it coming from the well. Mike went over to ask Steve if we could do this but he wasn’t home. His wife said she’d have him give us a call. Not even 5 minutes later Steve was in our driveway with a hose helping Mike set it up so our family didn’t go without running water.

I mean…..how blessed are we?!?! I’ve mentioned it before but our little community in the corner of this little neighborhood that we live in is absolutely AMAZING! 5.5 years ago Mike and I bought this house on a chance. We knew absolutely nothing about the area, the neighborhood, had no friends or family within an hour of us, it was definitely taking a leap of faith. Now look at us?!?  God put us here! God did this! I’m sure of it. Without our neighbors (who have turned into great friends) and our family, what would we have done?!? We would be without running water until we could figure out where to get the money to fix our well.

It’s been a stressful few days but last night when I laid my head down on my pillow I smiled, cried a little and thanked God for being with us every step of the way. We are blessed and its times like these I am reminded of that. Living life day to day, one stressful thing after the other its hard to remember that. Sometimes you find yourself saying “Why me?” But sometimes in those dark moments when you don’t see an end in sight you can take a look around and realized yes, everything might be going wrong but look at everything that’s going right. There’s always something to be thankful for. How calming of a feeling is it to know someone is always looking over us? There beside us making sure at the end of the day we will be okay. I’m so thankful God is looking over us and our babies each and everyday. How funny is it that something as simple, but expensive, as your well breaking can bring things totally into perspective for you?