Whew!

I am not an optimistic person.  I plan on the worst possible thing happening but hope it goes well.  Don't want to be disappointed.

So, when our furnace started to act up last night I planned on the worst.  Like having to replace the furnace today.  Luckily we have a fireplace that can heat the house in case of problems.  Like last night.  I was up until 2 a.m. getting the house warm (for the life of me I CAN'T get a hot fire going like Tim can) so that I wouldn't worry all night about Ster getting cold.  The house did warm up - but was at 69 degrees when we woke up.  I'm cold all the time now, so that was wayyyyy to cold for me.  A year ago that would have been fine.  Not now.

So I called my boss and asked for the day off.  I figure if it did get fixed, I'd be too cranky after only getting 4 hours of sleep.  I need my sleep so I'm not cranky.  And 4 hours = cranky mommy.

We were blessed.  By 9:30 a.m. and $100 later and a clean sensor, the furnace was up and running and warming our home.  Then I took a very short nap.  Hopefully that helps because.....

tonight is Pack Night.  The very first Pack Night that I'm in charge of.  I'm not really looking forward to it.  Me and a bunch of kids?  It'll be interesting.  Luckily, we don't have to be there that long!