Speaking of Dirty Details

After a day that we thought couldn't get worse, my sweet son-in-law brought home flowers for me.

• The day started when Adrian came to tell me that our dishwasher was leaking over their closet so we shouldn't run it until it was fixed. 
• Rachel woke up very sick and spent most of the morning throwing up. 
• When she settled down I was about to take a shower when she said, "Maybe you should check downstairs." (We knew the septic tank had started to back up into her toilet and had already called a plumber.) When I opened the door to her house, I saw water everywhere. The septic tank had backed up into her house.  At that very moment the plumbers drove into our driveway. 
• After mucking, moving, cleaning and bleaching for hours, I went upstairs to start supper. I was supposed to have a friend over to visit, but I cancelled that mid-afternoon.
• Ray was supposed to leave at noon to be gone overnight and left two hours late. I'm so very glad he stayed to help and talk to the plumbers.
• I finally got a much needed shower at 4:30. While changing Abigail's diaper I heard a crash in the kitchen; the glass from a light fixture had fallen from the ceiling and shattered throughout the kitchen and laundry room. Thankfully, no one was nearby.
• Then Abigail chose that very moment to wet the bed; the bed that had just had clean sheets put on. And she thought it wise to wet all the way through to the mattress.

So, when Adrian showed up with flowers and chocolate for me, I almost cried. I am so very thankful that Rachel is married to a kind man.