Indebtedness

Have you ever felt totally indebted to other people?

I know I have felt very grateful and thankful for people and their kindnesses at different times in my life. But I have never felt as indebted as I do right now. There have been so many people who have stepped up to the plate in ways small and large to help us out on this house project. My heart has felt overwhelmed with thankfulness and gratitude and humbled-ness and indebtedness. I can never repay each kind and helpful deed or person. Oh, I know I can pay it forward, but it still feels a little overwhelming when I think of how much wouldn’t be done or we wouldn’t have been able to do without the help we’ve been blessed with.

I think I especially feel this way, because the majority of work that has been done isn’t anything that I, myself could even do. My husband can of course and has been, but it has also been wonderful for him to have help on this project.

We have the flooring in the someday-kitchen finished and have started working on the porch and garage. Well, not we-they! My husband and dad and brother-in-law and brother. I have pretty much been on the fix-food-and-take-pictures-and-serve-ice-cream-treats-and-drinks committee. Great big thank-yous to my mother and sister who have also helped on that particular committee.{Insert Indebtedness.} 

My sister and brother-in-law and their girls went home yesterday. Sniff, sniff. It was so fun to have everyone here and to actually have room for them! I texted my sister this morning and told her she had to come back. I forgot to have her write in my guest book and I wanted to go to the coffee shop sometime and I remembered a couple things that I wanted her to help me with that I didn’t think about when she was here, so consequently we didn’t get them done. Funny how that works. And we didn’t have smores. Time seems to always run out when family is visiting from across all those miles.

Guess who’s not used to having a furnace? That would be me. (Insert raising hand and waving furiously.) We came home last evening and the house was a little stuffy, because we have been having absolutely beautiful-springy-May-weather-even-though-it’s-March, for the last three days. So we opened some windows to let the wonderfully cool air waft through the house. I woke up in the early-morning-hours-when-you-should-not-be-waking-up-but-sleeping and I heard something. This was my thought sequence…

“What am I hearing? Is it the wind? Yeah, probably, the windows are open.”

“Oh, it’s the furnace instead of the wind. Mmmm, I love hearing the furnace run ’cause I love having a furnace now.” {Snuggle into pillow to enjoy listening to furnace and go back to sleep.}

“Wait a minute!! The furnace is running?!!! No!! The windows are open! We don’t want the furnace running!!! We should’ve turned the furnace OFF last night.” (Forget snuggling into pillow and leap out of bed and turn off furnace.)

So, I guess that’s my handy, helpful tip for the day. IF YOU OPEN WINDOWS IT MIGHT BE WISE TO JUST TURN YOUR FURNACE OFF. Unless of course you like paying to heat the outdoors.

Maybe that tip will help someone else out and it can be one small way for me to have paid forward a little bit of my indebtedness. It makes me feel good to think that anyway.