Oh the cruel irony of it all...

Katherine is downstairs eargerly awaiting the arrival of Papa and Gram Meagher, would should be in the next hours.  Teddy is in his swing sound asleep for what I hope will be his long afternoon nap. And our new downstairs air conditioning system is being installed.  All is right with the world.

Wha? Yup, that's right.  You may remember (or maybe not because we didn't have a blog then) that when Katherine was about 18 months old, on the coldest week of the year, our upstairs heat/AC system broke, requiring a replacement system to be installed.  We were just finishing up our kitchen remodel with one final item remaining on the list...extending our hardwoord floors from the dining room into the kitchen.  The account we had set aside for home repairs had enough money left to cover this expense...until that cold week.  Two years later, I'm still looking at linoleum. Not to worry we said, slowing but surely that account will get built back up.

Flash forward to this week. Hottest week of the year thus far (can you see where I'm going with this?) Try as it might, the temperature downstairs would NOT go below 80 degress, no matter how hard the AC tried.  We called someone in who checked the system and said the freon level was low...very low.  Now in all honestly, we had been informed last summer that there was a slow freon leak on that system but we thought, hey maybe we can get a few more seasons out it.  Not so much.  The guy put some freon in but said that even with what he put in, it was still very low.  AND wouldn't you know, that account had been built back up a little bit, enough so that we could see that maybe, just maybe there could be some hardwood floors in our future.  Um, yeah, right.

Nope!  Instead, that money is going straight towards a new system for downstairs.  Now I should be thankful that we have that account and we are smart enought to contribute to it on a regular basis so that when things like this happen we don't have to worry about where the money is going to come from.  But, can you see the irony in all of this????  Not just once, but TWICE this happens.  At least after this, there's not more heat/AC systems to replace in this house.  But you better believe that anyone who comes to visit and gets the grand tour will be sure to be shown our beautiful "hardwood floors".  And we'll keep staring at the linoleum in the kitchen while that account gets refueled. Let's hope the third times the charm.