Blessing come in strange packages sometimes

This is actually Rachael. I don't know how to sign in for myself yet.
I had a very interesting day yesterday. All day Monday, I moved our two boys into the same room. It took the whole day, with breaks only to tend to my children. Although it was a lot of work, I felt great about how everything turned out, and it was good to have a chance to sort through our stuff so that we aren't storing things we actually don't need.
So Tuesday, I woke up feeling pretty sore and worn out from moving furniture/everything we own for the boys/all of Lance's camping gear (which it turns out, is a lot). As if she read my mind, my friend Amber called to see if she could watch Owen for an hour or two. During that time, I was able to actually take an uninterrupted shower (Oliver was napping) and I felt much better.
So that was blessing #1: Good friends, who obviously are listening to the spirit.

Tuesday is also my "cooking group" day where I cook meals for 2 other families. So it's usually a little stressful, but worth it since I don't have to cook on Wednesday or Thursday. I made 3 lasagnas, 4 loaves of bread, a big batch of Texas Sheet Cake, and all was well. Our house (except for the Kitchen of course) was actually even looking pretty good. The boys were behaving, and I was feeling pretty good about life. Lance came home, and I started cleaning up the million dishes while he played with the boys (keep in mind that my kitchen is pretty small, so there were dishes everywhere). I washed a few things, and suddenly I noticed that the water in the sink is now coming up, no going down. Both sides of our sink rapidly started filling with water, and I pretty much lost it. Being that we live on the bottom floor, we were getting the lovely scraps from our Asian neighbors upstairs rising up in our sink faster and faster. It was pretty gross.
Lance started emptying the water into our toilet every few minutes. I called maintenance to come and help us. I had to go to both of our upstairs neighbors and tell them to stop using their kitchen sinks entirely until he could get there (which was pretty unconvincing apparently since the water continued to pour into our sink for the next hour or so).
The maintenance guy came, and flushed it all out. He was really kind and helpful. I was finally able to finish the dishes, and get our house in order by about 11:00 pm.
Blessing #2: People (maintenance guys) who give up their evenings with their own families to assist residents, and even manage to have a good attitude about it.

So at 11:00 last night, and again at 6:00 this morning, I was preparing the boys' things to have mom watch them today so that I could work.
Blessing #3: A wonderful mother who gives up an entire day every week to watch her grandkids, knowing that we can't really afford to pay her for her efforts.

Blessing #4: An employer who, for the past three year, has worked around my crazy schedule to allow me to work, and to have some extra money each month.

Lance and I are so blessed. We have two healthy, beautiful boys. We have a roof over our heads, and food to eat. We are also thankful for our family members. We can't wait to meet our 2 new nephews in a few months. We are grateful to live so close to mom and dad and to have them be a very important part of our childrens' lives.