Making Lemonade:-)

At least trying to make lemonade!

I accidentally deleted my whole blog list yesterday and have spent hours, trying to add everyone's address back on, one by one.

I am so afraid I will lose a dear friend in our blogging neighborhood. So please leave a comment so I can put you back on my blog roll! You all mean so much to me. At 3:00 a.m. after hours of adding your names

...Would you believe I didn't push save while shutting down. So TWICE in one day I lost you!!!
Shauna at Trying to stay Calm reminded me of one of my favorite quotes, It is by a dear Lady, who no longer is with us, but her wisdom and wit lives on.

"The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache."~Marjorie Pay Hinckley

The sweetest friend ever, Dot over at Pickets Place is amazing and makes you feel so welcome, with her goodness and your heart just melts... She offered the cutest award to her friends yesterday and I want to thank her for it. Today I am going to make that Lemonade, while searching again for all you. I also want to pass this award to each of you. Thanks for my making my world a little brighter as you turn your lives into delicious Lemonade!

*When life happens, make lemonade and Giggle!* This story is true, I don't want to offend anyone's delicate decorum. It for those with a sense of humor and brave hearts♥

It happened last summer and I hesitated then whether to share this tale of embarrassment, shame and the worst case of giggles I have enjoyed with someone in a long time. These are the giggles you can only share with your very best friends or your SISTERS... Here goes....

Well, while my hubby was away on business, my sis had came to stay, we had a calamity of horrid ‘misfortunates’ happen one morning that ended up in the worst case of giggles that is now necessitated a trip to the doctor at the end of the month.

First, let me tell you of our morning when I hurried to the other end of the house, where the new guest suite is located, after I thought I could smell something burning. There I found my sister, Kate relaxing and everything in her kitchen seemed just fine. The thought of something burning escaped my mind, as I found a soft place & sat down to share a snack and to reminisce... About fifteen minutes later the burnt smell met both of our noses with a stinging stench. We took off at a dead run to the main kitchen as I realized, It was ME who had been cooking something.....The hummingbird nectar ‘I’ had put on the stove to heat & melt the sugar had turned into a an erupting volcano of smoke.

We moved so fast as I grabbed the smoking inferno and rushed it out on the Patio, then we opened every window & door including the garage doors and patio doors and turned on all the over head fans we could find in the main part of the home and shut all the bedroom doors and laid towels along the bottom so we would still have a place of refuge to retreat from the insulting smell...The pan was a complete lost, and the nectar inside had burnt to the blackest smoking ‘sponge’.

Our home was filled with the worst smoky stench for several days after. Oust, Febreze and other air sanitizers were put to good use.

An hour later I went back into the kitchen and there were soap suds all over our Newly refurbished beautiful shiny wood floor. The suds were pouring out of every seam of our Dish Washer. I yelled for my sister Kate to help me once more. We were still wearing red bandanas over our face’s because of the wretched smoky smell and she couldn’t believe her eyes. The kitchen looked like a giant bubble bath!

I had no idea what was going on! I knew I had used my regular electric dish washer soap with the pretty ball of jet dry in the tablet. Nothing like that had ever happened before... Then instead of crying... the hugest giggle attack happened. I started to laugh so hard, I crossed my legs so I wouldn’t pee my pants. ( Remember our motto of loving our bodies even when things stop working!) Kate was almost doubled up as well. Two bandana clad gals in complete hysteria, and then the most embarrassing thing happened. I felt warmth starting to run down both of my clenched legs. With every giggle, it got worst. I actually peed my pants! Not just ‘thought’ I was going to, but DID, and I was standing in the evidence. I was in such shock that I just laughed more and more! Kate was practically on the floor with laughter. What a mess!

Enough internet details:) Our home is sanitized and back to normal thank goodness. Above is a picture of the devious little culprit which is usually one of my favorite kitchen gadgets, until it is placed in the dishwasher. This is one bubble bath I could have done without!!!! I am not feeling the love for it any more:)

It was the lack of bladder control that concerned me the most though. So hence, a doctor apt took place at the end of the month:-) ....ah, it is time again to search for all my missing Blog addresses:-)

Remember to make Lemonade and Laugh when real life happens, because it does make your head hurt, when you cry:-)