November 26, 2008

• Ghosts and Miracles

  Well its been a intresting week.

  First Rob was distraught when he examined our finances Sunday night and was unsure if we could afford to go to Idaho.  We really can’t.  But we’ve been planning for it all year….well not financially planning obviously.  But his parents are definitely planning on it etc.

  So we talked and decided we’d make it a shorter trip, and went to bed.

  The next afternoon a forgotten bit of money showed up.  It doesn’t totally alieve the financial pressure, but it definitely gave us a wee bit of breathing room.  And pays down our overdraft protection quite a bit.

  That was the first wee miracle.

  The second one is bigger.

  We went to bed last night like normal and in the middle of the night there was a bright flash of light.  I didn’t open my eyes just assumed it was lightning, and counted to see how far away it was.  A few minutes later another flash, and no thunder.  I still didn’t open my eyes but fell back into a light sleep.  Hey I’m a mom of 6 who went grocery shopping with all 6 yesterday I earned my sleep.  A few minutes later the light was on permanently.  I opened my eyes to realize it was our bedroom light.  And Rob was busy snoring.  And t here were no kids in the bedroom.

  “What in the world?”  I said in my mostly asleep mind.

  Rob jumped out of bed turned it off, and we went back to sleep.

  A few minutes later it happened a second time.

  Rob jumped up again turned it off and immediately commenced snoring.

  I however will admit to being just a wee bit wigged out.  I don’t believe in ghosts.  But at o-dark thirty having just come out of a dark sleep demons were definitely on the mind!!!!

  I determined to lay there with my eyes open this time to see what was going on.  It was hard as I was sweepy (sleepy), but sure enough a couple minutes later the wretched light turned back on.  And nobody was in the room.

  “We better turn it off at the breaker.”  I observed to Rob.  He groaned and got dressed to go to it.  The breaker is in the corner of the girls bedroom, and its a bit of a pain to get to it.

  After a couple minutes of fussing he found the right breaker, and he came back in.  “Do you smell something funny?”  Rob asked.  I made some half-baked joke and fell asleep.

  This morning Rob dismantled the switch to see what was going on.

  It was MELTED.  The inside of it in a inch wide diameter MELTED. 

  It wasn’t demons turning the lights on.  It was angels.  We do not currently have a smoke detector in our bedroom.  And we were sleeping so hard last night I can’t begin to think of what would have happened if it hadn’t shorted itself on.   God was definitely watching over.   And now I need to go get a new light switch as the old one is definitely toast. 

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