Monday Madness: It Wasn't The Shower Running....

It seemed innocent enough...

Jordyn woke up in the middle of the night to hear the shower running...

What happened next can only be described best in Jordyn's words!

It was in the middle of a normal night in a normal town...
I woke up at 3am and I thought I heard the shower running...
 I sat up and saw that the light was not shining out from under the door to the bathroom.
Being the paranoid person that I am, I thought some weirdo was taking a shower in the dark.
I couldn't just lay there, so I got out of bed and opened the door to the bathroom and saw no one was in there.
That's when I thought of the kitchen.
I quickly grabbed my flashlight, opened my door and found myself face to face with an inch of water on the kitchen floor.
Then I flipped on the kithen light and attempted to turn off the dishwasher...
When that didn't work, I ran to my parents door to get help!

And THAT, my friends, is when I woke up to knocking pounding on my bedroom door.

Peter jumped up to see what was going on and all I could hear in my sleepy ears were phrases like:

"all wet"

"in front of the dishwasher"

"all over"

My head was trying to figure out what Jordyn was talking about...

Was it our kitten?

Was it our youngest son?

WHO was all wet in front of the dishwasher???

I finally managed to wake up enough to throw on my bathrobe and follow Peter 

out to the kitchen...

Trust me...

When my feet hit the cold water, I woke up FAST!

What on earth?

Let's go back a couple days, two days to be precise...

First of all, we have a little boy who has come to LOVE avocados since moving in with us.

I know you are wondering what avocados have to do with our dishwasher self-combusting...

please bear with me...

Saturday morning we discovered one of our ripe avocados looked like it had been bitten into.

I asked our five year old if he had bit into it and he said no. 

I believe him cause I really didn't think he would be able to take that big of a bite.

We shrugged it off and figured we were missing something...

Sunday morning we woke up to ANOTHER avocado that had a HUGE amount ate out of it, 

clear to the seed. 

Now I was really wondering what was going on because it didn't look like human teeth.

In fact, it looked like someone took a fork and had been digging the hole out of the avocado.

What. In. The. World?

Now...take us back to the dishwasher incident a mere 18 hours later around 3am...

After the three of us spend an hour or so mopping up water in the kitchen 

and realizing our floor was ruined, Peter said we would figure out what was going on in the morning.

I ended up sleeping in and by time I woke up, I found out that Peter had discovered 

a rat had chewed its way into our kitchen under the dishwasher and chewed a hole

in the water pipe coming in from the city!!!

EWWWW!!!!

So what do avocados, a rat, and a broken dishwasher have in common?

Did you know that a rat's preferred food is an avocado?

Seriously?

Who knew rats had such distinguished taste buds???

Knowing that a rat had been crawling on my kitchen counter sent me into a cleaning frenzy. 

That kitchen was sanitized top to bottom.

By the time I got done, I was pooped. 

So...the moral of the story?

If you think the shower is running and it isn't....go check the dishwasher!

For fun, here are some pics from when we got our new vinyl put in a couple days later:

If you missed last week: Women Role Models In My Life
Next Week: Introvert or Extrovert?

Until next time...

Have a blessed day and embrace the craziness in your life!

Heidi
Numbers 6:24-26