Sometimes I think my life is a sitcom/drama all in one....

Okay so our heat and air went out over the weekend and of course it was cold...it's been warm for like 2 weeks now and here it is cold again! We figured we would run and get a duraflame for the fireplace until Monday. We call Walmart at about 10 pm and they say they have them. We bundle Makily up, and make our trek to Walmart. We walk all over looking and cannott find any fireplace logs. We ask a few employees, they say there is not any in stock. I explained that we called earlier to make sure they had them before we drug our 2 year old with an ear infection and cough out in the cold night air and were told they had them. No one had a response for me other than a stupid look. *sigh*
I did talk to the manager and he called every Walmart from here to Gainesville and no one had them. I don't know why he called so many stores as we wouldnt have driven 30-40 miles for one....hey at least he was trying to help.
We ended up spending the night at our friends house. I went to Bargain Barry's (stop laughing) the next morning and they had several boxes of duraflames and I bought two boxes. We scheduled for someone to come out today (Tuesday). We had a problem 2 years ago with our a/c freezing up and a breaker. The guy that came out basically flipped a breaker which fixed the problem and then tried to sell us a very expensive new heat and air system and swore that ours wouldnt last another month....this was 2 years ago. I made sure not to call the same company because I felt like they had tried to rip us off back then...I was also 9 months pregnant with Makily at the time.
So this morning the a/c & heat man walks in and I think "gee he looks soo familiar". Well come to find out IT WAS THE SAME DUDE!! He was working for a different company back then. I wanted to scream. What are the chances of ALL THE heat and air places in Ocala that I would get the same guy...again. I immediately was on guard for bull crap. Allen had installed a new thermostat the night before thinking that may fix the problem as neither the heat or air would even turn on, still didnt work. After looking around and flipping and playing with the breakers they realize that one of the breakers is bad, . It will not flip and stay flipped and makes a scary errrrrrrr noise....GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEAT! Then the a/c man starts to try and sell us a new thermostat.....yes that's right, he claims the one we had installed the day before was "a piece of crap". He had one in his van for $90...plus the $65 trip charge and labor for installing it. Allen and I went back and forth and I finally just said "look sir, my daughter has many medical problems and I can't go back to work, we really don't have $90 for a new thermostat right now.". He did soften which surprised me. He tried re-installing the thermostat we had put in the night before. The switches kept flying off. I saw it happen once, I swear he turned the a/c on and the switch flew across my kitchen and hit the wall. Had someone been standing there they would have gotten hurt. When I actually saw the thing flying I did have to laugh....the a/c man just kept saying "I've never seen a thermostat like this" (it was only $15) Finally I broke down when he said it just wouldnt go on. I told Allen to do whatever he thought we needed to do. He told the guy to go ahead and install the $90 one because we had to have one to make the a/c work. The dude was great and said "no man, let me help you out, I am sure you can get a cheaper one that WILL WORK at Lowe's...I am sure it's the breaker". So thankfully he only charged the $65 trip charge.
Then we start calling around to find the breaker...well guess what? Just our luck.....the system we have in the house is "obselete" and they dont' make breakers for it anymore! Allen went all over town looking for the breaker. I got online and found the company that manufactured them and they said they could get us one in 3 days but if we had an ACE Hardware they may have it. So after calling every ACE hardware in Ocala and Belleview.....WE FOUND IT! $42.....THANK YOU GOD! Allen got it installed and then he replaced the thermostat with a digital one that looks EXACTLY like the one the a/c man wanted to sell us. It was $29 though.
Our heat and air are working like a charm now! My husband is Mr. HandyMan and I have told him that all day.

We are still fighting for Makily's stander and her kidcart. I havent complained too much to them lately as I believe once she is 2 years old they cannott fight it anymore. Someone at the insurance company let it slip to me and when I questioned it further they clammed up. After 6 weeks of crying, praying, screaming and begging I FINALLY GOT MAKILY'S PREVACID TODAY! It took that long to get it approved. I swear insurance companies really are enough to make me CRAZY! I started her on it tonight so we will see how she does with it and if it works better than the Zantac.

I am working on Makily's birthday party and can't wait! It is SO HARD to believe my baby girl is going to be 2 years old. What a joy and miracle she is. I look at her and wonder what goes on in her little mind. It must be so frustrating for her not being able to tell me what she wants or what is hurting her. She has such a sweet spirit though and I am so fortnate that she only really cries if she is hurting or has pooped her pants. She is so laid back compared to how she was as a newborn. She constantly screamed and cried and was NEVER happy. It seems so long ago but like yesterday at the same time. I remember thinking she would cry forever, that was before I truly knew all the things that were wrong with her little body. How her tummy didnt empty and how she refluxed straight up her esophagus all the time. I was feeding her every 2 hours then too, I can only imagine how awful that must have been for her. Can you imagine the torture of being force fed through a tube every 2 hours while your stomach is already full and it's refluxing and burning your esophagus? I feel bad thinking of that time because I was emotionally unavailable in every way...and poor Makily was miserable. God Bless Allen, I don't know how he got through it all. He is my rock...forever and ever.