Last night Jason was in Campamento for his once monthly preaching trip. It was a warm night and so the newly falling rain felt so good. I was exhausted as is to be expected when you are 7 months pregnant and Daddy is gone. I put the kids to bed and as I laid listening to the rain my brain was thinking of all the thing I wanted to get done the next day. I fell asleep, but was awakened about an hour later to very hard rain. Now if you know anything about windows in Honduras you will know that all of ours are glass shutter style windows and leak if it rains really hard. I checked all of the kids' rooms and thankfully no rain inside the rooms. So I went back to bed and tried to sleep, but it was raining so hard that I couldn't doze off until after 3:00 am. I did get some good prayer time in so that was a blessing.
This morning the kids woke me up at 6:00 am. Normally on Saturdays they can sleep in until 8:00 if I am lucky. This morning after a wakeful night, I was not to be so lucky. Oh well, I had a lot to do so I wasn't too frustrated.
As is our custom I made a nice breakfast for the kids. This morning it was crepes. This is the first time I had made them and they were quite yummy I must admit. While Audrey was doing the dishes, I started on my projects for the day. I went into the kitchen to straighten up as she doesn't do a good job on that yet, and found my counters were full of water. I seems that Jordan "helped" her a bit and then "tried to clean it up". In the process of cleaning all of the water up I had to take all of my counter appliances out and clean behind them. I had been wanting to reorganize my kitchen to give me a little more accessibility, but today it was not in my plans. It sure looks and works a lot better for me now.
After cleaning the kitchen I asked Audrey to take the dirty rags to the laundry room. She did and started yelling for me to come quick. It seems that the hard rain filled my laundry and storage room with about 1/4 inch of mud. We have lived here for quite a few years and have never had this problem. My thinking that I had never seen it rain this hard here made perfect sense now. I hadn't and my laundry and storage rooms took the brunt of the damage.
Once again, cleaning out these two rooms had been on my To Do List ever since we took all of the baby things out, but I cannot lift anything heavy so Jason had to have the time available too and that just hadn't happened yet. Well, tonight we were forced to rectify that situation. We had to take everything out and then get rid of the mud. Thankfully it was a very liquidy mud and so the wet/dry vac took care of everything. The rooms look so much nicer now.
I love spring cleaning. Unfortunately today there were several things that needed to get done, but couldn't as a result of other factors helping me decide to spring clean.
We also found out today that when it rains it pours. After cleaning everything up, I tried to wash and dry a load of towels and after 5 seconds my dryer stopped working. We are praying that it will be a cheap, easy fix.
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