New Blender

We got a new a blender. (cheaper than what the link shows, thankfully!). I love the shiny red, just makes me want to make smoothies, and crepe batter, and baby food. The only thing is, I really didn't want to buy a new blender but after what happened Friday night we kind of thought it the best idea.

At about 3 am, on Friday night (Saturday morning), Mike woke up and needed to use the bathroom. This, in turn, woke me up. My first thoughts were "oh, no - Mike's sick" but as he came back to bed, he assured me that he was just fine. Since I was awake, I figured I might as well go too. Lying back in bed, trying to go to sleep, I start hearing this "whirling" sound. I poked at Mike and said "do you hear that? what's that?" He groggily grabs the golf club we keep under our bed and heads out our bedroom door. He says from the stairs, "I think it's the vacuum!" Weird. So I'm now thinking one of the kids is downstairs playing with the vacuum. The whirling noise stops and I head downstairs. Mike informs me that it was the blender. I had left it plugged in without the canister on it. He said he saw sparks arching out of it. Not a good thing. Our corded phone in the office also was on the line, even while it was hung up. We figure some kind of power surge happened due to a thunderstorm that had come through earlier.

I believe God really protected us on Friday night. I am so thankful that we are okay and nothing major happened. So - Praise God!