Our Furnace

A couple nights before we left for Vegas I had gotten up to use the bathroom. It felt abnormally cold, but I figured it was just because I had gotten out of a warm bed. An hour later, Molly came back from feeding Addie, and said that her entire body was like ice. (I thought she was kidding, and I was in the mood for ice cream, so I made a joke; but it wasn't recieved very well). So I got up to find that the temperature in our house was 45 degrees. The heater had stopped working, (and it was one of the coldest nights in Orange City... -20 with -40 wind chill. no exaggeration). So we were a bit concerned. I went to see if the airways were blocked on the outside of the house, but they weren't. Then I opened up the emergency air flow in the basement, but that didn't help either. After looking a bit closer at our furnace, I noticed that the back two burners were working, but once the cycle triggered, the front two burners were not. So we called the emergency plumbing people at 4am. I went to work, Molly and the kids stayed in our bedroom with a space heater and watched movies, (which Conner thought was wonderful), and the heating and plumbing guy spent the day putting a new furnace in our house. It's not that don't mind getting a good furnace for our 100 year old house, it's just that I had a lot of better places for our $3,800 tax return to go to... A four wheeler for Conner and I, a go kart for Conner and I, a day at the lake on wave runners for Conner and I, more money for our broker to invest for Conner and I, or a doll for Molly and Addie. Oh well, I guess it's good that we didn't have to go INTO debt for our new 'toy'. And heat is important too, right???