Leaving again

Gary is leaving again this morning and won't be home until Tuesday morning. He will only be home for 18 hours, then back on the road. Sigh...

We had to change when we go to Mass from Sunday mornings to Saturday evening. I kind of like that because the girls and I get to hang out at home and be lazy, but still...We are having to make so many changes at once I'm still not used to it.

Our refrigerator has been freezing food on the refrigerator side and the freezer keeps defrosting and we have had to throw away so much food over the last couple of years that I have finally had enough. There is only so many times I am willing to repair something, so yesterday we bought a new one; it will be delivered Tuesday. I started feeling a panic attack in Sears because I had no idea that prices on refrigerators had gone up so much! (I'm not trying to be funny, I really did have anxiety.) We had to buy it on credit, but unless we wanted to buy a mini fridge, we didn't have enough money to buy one with cash. Oh well, these thing happen.

Well, that's about it for me...Anxeity over buying a new appliance. Silly...

The money you saved on the meat is worth the cost of the freezer, but still...

Thats what was happening here. I was throwing away food at least once a month because it would freeze or defrost. I can't keep bags of salad, fruit, or vegetables at all anymore because the refrigerator side would freeze and ruin them. (the temp is set at it's lowest, but it doesn't matter.) My freezer had thawed out at least 3 times last year and we had to throw out everything. By the time I add up all of the money that was spent on food that I have to throw out, and then the aggrivation of it all, it was time for a new one. I was just cought off guard at the prices and to make it more expensive, Gary wanted a stainless steel one because my mom has one and it is super easy to clean. With two 7 year olds, we need "easy clean up." The fridge we have now never looks clean (on the outside) no matter how hard I try. We also like having ice and water on the door for the girls, AND we bought one with the freezer on the bottom and french doors on the top. It's the same size as our side by side that we have now, but it looks MUCH roomier. All of those features add up to a very expensive price tag.

I didn't think that I would end up with one, either. Our side by side is up against a wall, so we were never able to open the freezer more than 80 degrees, which made it difficult to put anything on the larger side in there. Couldn't even think about a Thanksgiving turkey, the freezer is too narrow. We have to take frozen pizza's out of the box and it simply just doesn't hold very much. He is now working for Pepperidge Farm and gets bread (and other things) for free. My poor size by side is stuffed to the brim right now because I have bread in it, but there really isn't more than a week or so worth of food in there. I am the one who wanted the freezer on the bottom, but I wasn't going to go with the french door one. When I looked at how little room the one door-freezer on the bottom fridge had, I told Gary we were going to have to go with the bigger one.

With what Gary wanted and what I wanted, it's what we ended up with.

Brenda, we didn't start out with the intention on buying the one we did. But with two small kids we needed the features that this one has. What doesn't help is that I despise shopping, expecially grocery shopping, so I buy as much as I can fit in the fridge and freezer at one time so I don't have to go to the store as often. If I would buy groceries online and have it delivered to my house, I would. Actually, I think Whole Foods does that, but there is a 10% upcharge and I'm not paying 10% extra!