I am sitting here trying to decide what to write first--to complain about the ac issue or to tell you about picking up the kids. I'll start with the bad first so that I'll end on a positive note ;)
Soooooo, on Wednesday night I noticed that the thermometer upstairs was reading that it was hotter than the temperature it was set at. We keep ours at 72 and for two years that is what the AC kept it at. So when I noticed it was going up a little--at first just to 74--I figured I'd call someone sooner rather than later. I talked to Danny about it and he agreed I should call someone so I asked around and called. That phone call made me feel like the biggest idiot out there and sent me over the edge. The gentleman I spoke to, whether he meant to or not, talked to me like I was 5 and proceeded to explain that hot air rises so our upstairs is going to hotter. I explained that in the two years we've had this house its never happened like this before and he told me he could come out but he didn't think there was anything wrong. Well, I don't want to pay someone to come over and look at the AC if his mind is already made up that nothing is wrong. I just thanked him for his time, hung up, and started to bawl.
I'm not sure if it was that he made me feel stupid, which I absolutely hate, or if it was just the straw that broke the camel's back. I think it was a combination of the two, but at that point I was just upset/mad--whatever you want to call it--that I had one more thing to fix. To be honest, at this point I am sick to death of being "strong" and dealing with all the fix it issues, the yard, selling the golf cart, etc. All the things that are typically Danny's responsibility-- I don't want anymore. I am not Danny--things he does with ease--like even being able to explain what is wrong with the AC--are not easy for me. Danny, like always, talked me off the ledge so to speak. He called some AC people for me and he walked me through some of the things to check to make sure it wasn't something I could do myself. There are moments during a deployment where I am so proud that I can do things on my own and revel in proving that I can make it. However, this wasn't one of them.
At any rate--the AC people he called gave him the run around too and said there was probably nothing wrong. But, last night and today it got up even higher upstairs. So I called another company and they are finally sending out someone tomorrow. I am praying its an easy and relatively cheap fix.
Now onto the good news--the kids are home!! If I had any doubts about whether or not I should have sent them, they were erased when I picked them up this morning. Neither of the kids wanted to leave and both of them asked me right away if they could come back next summer. They talked for about a half hour about the things they did, before Bryce fell asleep LOL. They have talked almost all day about the things that happened at camp. They got to pet snakes (they loved it), go tubing down the river, zip line, flying squirrel, rock wall climb, slide down a waterfall, swim in a pond, look for gold in a creek, make some great friends, and do KP (Jace actually liked doing this). They keep singing songs that watched the counselors perform--its awesome. The counselors said both kids did fine--their only comment about Jace was he was extremely hard to wake up in the morning (just like his Daddy) and Bryce was a sweetheart and helped a girl that was really homesick decide to stay. I do have to say though--both kids look like they have grown over the last week. I guess I better start researching camps for next year--the kids are so revved up to go again :)
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