Everything but the kitchen sink….or shall I say faucet. Man I tell ya, I believe we have one problem after another ALL the time. Whether it’s family, friends, job, finances, or home projects, something is always changing. Last night it was our faucet. I was baking pretty much most the day and literally as my husband was walking in the door the hot water pressure dropped significantly. It was almost as if every sink, hose, washing machine, dishwasher, bathtub or toilet had all flushed simultaneously. Unfortunately this wasn’t the case.

The best thing I could dream up was I had drained all the hot water as it instantaneously happened. I called my dad as he has many rental houses and must of them must run into random problems at some point or another and he informed me that something must be stuck in the hot water pipe; a rock or sediment of some sort had to of missed the filter. He was right! As my husband was taking apart the sink to quickly fix the issue, he accomplished this task quite quickly but the problem lied in the “reassembling phase.” I must say he was in the kitchen for quite some time and was really silent and downcast about this procedure; actually hostile would be more accurate. Playing doctor on the sink became very frustrating as one problem after another took place and the surgery was not getting better, only worse. He kept preforming surgery while each limb in the neck of the faucet kept getting unscrewed rather than being made whole again. Finally, I look up and the entire faucet is taken from the sink leaving me with no water for 24 hours. Mind you, Thanksgiving was two days away.

I put a smile on my face as I could see the frustration running rampantly through his body. “That’s fine hun,” I murmur as I try and change the tone for the evening (luckily this did work). He apologizes as one of the pieces that needed to be screwed into another was completely missing. Somehow this piece was hiding in the neck of the pipe; completely stuck. It wouldn’t budge no matter what we tried. I’m telling you he tried everything including a wire closet hanger. No luck.

My boys assessing the task ahead….

Today I was realizing the thousand times I truly turn on a faucet throughout one solid day beginning the first moments I woke up. “Coffee anyone?” Wait, no water to rinse out the pot, the grind basket or how to fill the pot for a fresh cup o’ joe. We do have a Sierra Springs water jug that was helpful, but definitely not helpful for the rinsing or washing aspect.  I must say between feeding myself, my son, preparing breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as simple kitchen clean up, it became extremely challenging to accomplish much of anything. Thankfully I had taken advantage of the baking and cooking the previous day that today I could take it somewhat easy. Though the choice wasn’t up to me I had to respect the circumstance.

In the midst of the chaos I even attempted to file the sink with boiling water from the bathroom to have soapy water to rinse my hands throughout the day, but this task became more time consuming than it was worth and the water would quickly get dirty defeating my purpose. As dinner approached I allowed the dishes to pile up knowing I had a new faucet heading my way.

As my husband came home he was able to fix this dilemma quite promptly and left me with a new sparkling faucet. I cleaned my dishes with the most thankful attitude in awhile I presume. The little things as clean running water help remind me how much I take them for granted.

So remember when the dishes pile up and you are dreading to clean them or simply rinse your hands because you have peanut butter and jelly on them, you can quickly and easily rinse them in your sink without the horror of Thanksgiving approaching and all the dishes that are to be prepared with no water. :)