Back in July we decided to renew our home warranty. It was a sizable chunk of change for that time of year.
You may not know this, but many professors across the country are on 9 month contracts, even if they have tenure.
What does that mean? No paychecks for 3 months in the summer!
During the summer you hope and pray and keep your fingers crossed that nothing breaks. Which is why we decided to renew our home warranty, even though we were at that scary end of summer/haven't gotten the first paycheck/rice and beans again existence.
We felt that we could afford the $500 (or whatever it was) at that point, but surely not $1000+ later if our air conditioner broke or the roof needed to be replaced.
About a week ago I started unloading the dishwasher, only to realize that nothing was clean. After debating for a few hours and running the dishes again, we scheduled an appointment with our home warranty appliance division.
That day they sent someone out to look at our machine. Basically, there is so much calcium in our water, that the filters(?) or something is blocked and no water was coming out. After running cleaner through the dishwasher several times, the repairman decided that he needed to order 3 new parts and would be back in a week to install them.
From my limited understanding of how a dishwasher works, it looks like he is basically rebuilding our machine.
And we only have to pay the one time fee!
This is the second time this year we've had the home warranty people out to the house and both times we've saved a bundle.
Currently my fingers are cracked and dry despite numerous applications of cream (anyone have any good recommendations for hand cream/lotion?), but we'll have a refurbished, working dishwasher on Monday and we didn't have to spend $800 on parts and labor!
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In other news, Tuesday was Pioneer Day at Maia's school. I did my first parent volunteer duty and felt very grown up.
The pictures I got aren't great, Ruby was very clingy that day. Perhaps it was the live animals and energy crazed 5 year old boys that made her timid.
(Boys?! I don't even know. They are so different than girls.)
The kids were encouraged to dress up in pioneer outfits. I put Maia in a dress that used to be mine and cowboys boots.
Pretty darn cute if I do say so myself.
The gym was filled with cattle roping, butter making, clothes washing, animal petting, game playing stations.
I was on bouncy horsey thing duty.
Ruby was great, helping me pull the covers back on the balls when they came off.
To my surprise, Maia actually pet a goat and chicken. I thought she'd be too nervous.
I don't have a much pioneer garb in my closet (surprised?) so I made do with one of Aleks' plaid shirts.
I'd say Maia had a great time. She was tired out after that crazy day!
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