when it rains, it pours

Why is it that things happen in multiples?  Like 3 for example.
This weekend is seems things have happened in sixes.....
1. I found ants on our kitchen floor.  Discovered they were coming out of our baseboards.
2. Our bathroom faucet is continually leaking.  This isn't new, but Joel has replaced the washers twice and it continues.  So we need a new faucet.
3. Our toilet broke in our ensuite, and the one in our hallway continues to "run" (so you know, I have to take the lid off and adjust it).
4. My vacuum cleaner broke.  I fixed it (for now), but its on its last leg.
5. Our washing machine broke.... after a week where I put off doing laundry until the last possible day....
6. The brand new umbrella that I just bought for our patio broke, so its permanently tilted.  And I can't find the receipt (here's hoping the store takes it back without one!).

So tomorrow I have to phone a repairman about our washing machine.  And hope it can be fixed!  Otherwise we're in the market for a new one. Sigh....
Oh well, its just stuff, and the Lord always provides!

Born This Way

Funny story.

Saturday was the first summery day we've had this year.  Sunshine, warmth, playing in the backyard.  The first time I got the kiddie pool set up this year!  I thought it would be a nice treat for the kids.  They were enjoying playing in it, and running back and forth to their climbing wall/slide toy, taking buckets of water to cool down the plastic so it wouldn't be so hot on their bare feet and skin.  I was hanging up my laundry to dry outside.  After that was done, I decided it would be nice to sit in a chair, facing the sun, with my feet in the kiddie pool to relax in the five minutes I had before the Canucks hockey game started.  Ahhh.... I closed my eyes and soaked in the rays.  

Josiah WAS over on the slide, but I heard his little footsteps on the grass coming towards me, as he usually likes to be no further than 3 feet from me.  I figured since I had ventured away from the clothesline, that was closer to his slide, he wanted to be in the kiddie pool near me.  Not more than 10 seconds later, with my eyes still peacefully closed, "AAAHHHH!!!" I felt cold water being poured down my back!!  "Josiah!"  I squealed.  I opened my eyes to see him standing next to me with a now empty bucket grinning from ear to ear.  Grace rushed over to see what the matter was, and asked "Mommy, are you crying?"  I was laughing so hard it looked like I was crying.  But in fact, I was laughing hysterically, and saying "Josiah, I can't believe you just did that!"  Now I am soaking wet, and he leans over and plunks four quick kisses right on my lips, laughing HIS head off.  

Joel was in the front yard, but heard my squealing, and when he finally came to check what the kaffufle was all about, I told him that his son had just poured a bucket of water down my back when I was unarmed and peacefully unaware of what he was about to do.

We have known since Josiah was a tiny baby, that he likes to get a good laugh out of people.  Its amazing to see that he was born this way, and God gave him a little teasing gene.