Harlan House

Okay, so Nate (being the kind husband that he is) knew I haven’t been sleeping well and let me sleep in a little yesterday. At least, he thought I was sleeping in- in reality, I was just trying to get motivated to turn over and move out of bed (did I mention the midwife said on Wednesday the baby is already probably 8 1/2 pounds???). So, I hear Nate call someone on the phone and say “Hi. I have a pretty big pool of water in our front walk with frothy bubbles coming out of it.” Needless to say, I was out of bed and in the living room in 2.5 seconds (okay, maybe 3!). Sure enough, our water pipe had broken and about 5 feet of sidewalk was submurged under muddy, murky water. Thankfully, it was from the water pipe going to the house, not the sewer! The concrete sidwalk literally is buried now underneath all the silt and dirt that poured over it. These things seem to happen to us on Fridays, when no one is available until Monday. Thankfully, one of our church friends knows a good excavating guy who at least was able to get his equipment out here today. So even though he can’t do the work yet because the stores that have the parts are closed, we still know we are first on the list on Monday morning and everything is in place. Now we’re praying that I don’t have the baby until Tuesday or later (I’ll be 37 weeks on Monday) so we won’t have to have construction going on less than 10 feet from our living room when I have the baby. Our neighbor Lyn has been awesome enough to let us use his water while ours is shut off. We are so blessed to live by good people and to have an amazing church family. God is good!

I’ll keep you updated with baby news. I’ve been contracting on and off but nothing consistent yet, so that’s good!