When it Rains...

It pours!

We've had a few things on our plate these last few days...

Like...the dryer died.

Wouldn't heat at all.

I shared the exciting news with T and then just looked at him with hopeful eyes. I told him I knew he could fix it. He wasn't so sure. I kept looking at him. I promised I'd help him.

We put the kids to bed and tackled the dryer.

I did really important things...like holding the flashlight and handing him things.

We broke out the ohmmeter...(I learned a lot.)

And discovered something about "no return" - or something...and that meant electricity wasn't going through the coils to heat them...

So T removed the heating element. One part of the coil had burned up. Hence the problem. T told me we were blessed that the house didn't burn down. There was a ton of lint down there! (an entire Walmart bag packed FULL - and I do clean my lint filter EVERY time and I stick the vacuum wand down there upon occasion.).

We googled the part. It was going to run us roughly $100...so I pulled a T move and called a repair shop first thing the next morning. They had the part and would sell it to me for $75. I woke the children, loaded the car, and we secured the part.

It took T less than an hour to put the new part in and re-assemble the dryer.

Good as new!

Oh, Mom was right...don't leave the house with the dryer running.

A photo of our newly installed heating element...working!

And "the man!" - Whatta man, whatta man, whatta mighty fine man!

Now in addition to the dryer going ka-put, something red wound up in with a load of many whites...and they are all pink! Including a sweet little gown of MC's and my fav burp cloth...ugh!

And an old roof leak we'd paid to have fixed a few years ago poured forth once more. Lovely.

And the kids jammed a dvd into the player...I took it apart and successfully removed said item and put the player back together...and it works!

I dried her hair today...how hilarious is that?

Let me explain.

We were all in MW's room when I saw T3 (who's been potty training for the last week or so) standing in front of MW's Barbie castle, undies down, tee teeing. I screamed, "no, no, no! Not there!"

Little man was tee teeing in the Barbie potty.

Nice.