Thankful

Guess what I get to be thankful for this year? Monday we get a new septic tank! What else am I thankful for? The way I found out that we even HAD a septic problem is that while doing laundry yesterday, the bathroom adjacent to the washroom had a tub and toilet full of April Fresh Downy rinse water! Anyone can imagine how much worse that could have gone, smellwise. The thankful train keeps on rollin', in that I don't have to pay for the new septic tank (we rent this house), and when the problem began, I was all caught up on all my cleaning and laundry.
Funny, last week, Melson handed his grandmother, Oui (as in "yes you can have it, yes you can do it"...) his watering can, and said "it needs water in it, so I can pee the flowers". Little did we know, our kid has "ESPN", as his Daddy calls it - since now we are LITERALLY peeing the flowers. The plumber disconnected the house from the septic tank, so all water, from all sources in the house, now empties into our backyard, at least until tomorrow!

As a side note: this unique and beautiful house we are blessed to live in has presented so many quirks - this time, it is the location of the septic tank. It is under our back deck, which is weird enough, and makes it difficult and costly to access in order to do maintenance, but the support posts for the deck were built literally on top of the lid to the tank. This is why we are getting a whole new septic tank.

>Sigh<

We went home to Opelika this past weekend, and got in some fishing with the kids. It was a perfect day, as far as fun and weather. It was their first time fishing, and they were all REALLY into it. But they did make Daddy do all the things requiring touching the fish. SJ is so cute now missing all those teeth in the front - I love it!

Something else I love - the van we just bought - now all the kids can ride without touching - major bonus! And with the center aisle all the way to the back from our seats in the front, I can make it from my seat to the back (where the girls sit) to issue out any necessary beatings that are in order - before you can get to the 99th bottle of beer on the wall! We actually timed and tested this during the test drive!:)

Another thing I love? I just booked my tickets to go back to Cali to visit Christie in January! This time I'll get to meet her new baby boy, too. I can't wait!

The Fall is gorgeous here, and we are all being swept away by the lovely leaves and beautiful sunrises - it's like the mountains are on fire. These leaves are outside my bedroom window. >sigh<