One night last week…Matt and I were working at the computer. It began to get quite late. A time or two (but surely not more than that…because I would never nag) I looked at the time and said, “Well, we’d better stop and get to bed.”
But we continued to work on and on until it was really, really late.
I was feeling frustrated with myself for not just going on to bed because I knew I would pay for the lateness of the hour. This mama needs her eight hours or it ain’t pretty.
Suddenly out of nowhere we heard a strange sound coming from the kitchen. Matt went in right away to investigate…and found the craziest thing. The ice maker in our refrigerator/freezer had suddenly just starting spewing out water. A lot of water. Like a small faucet.
I stood there just staring at it for several seconds because (a) I don’t have great brain function after midnight and (b) I truly couldn’t come up with anything that I should do — see (a).
Matt was of course trying to turn the thing off and he kindly said to me, “Do you think you could get a bucket or something to catch that water?”
Ah, good idea. Why didn’t I think of that?
The large amount of water forming around us on the floor didn’t clue me into that idea for some reason.
Anyway, so we (as in Matt) got the thing turned off and then we (as in we) got several towels and started to wipe up the floor and the inside of the freezer.
It was amazing to us how many towels it took to mop up the water that really was only spewing out for about one minute.
Which is why we couldn’t stop being thankful that we had stayed up so late. 
If we had gone to bed back in the hours where I was nagging suggesting that we go…we wouldn’t have heard the weird sound and we (as in Matt) couldn’t have stopped it. And we would have woken up to a VERY, VERY bad flooding problem in our kitchen. Our pretty wooden floors could have warped…the water would have worked it’s way into other rooms…it could have been VERY, VERY bad.
Yes, we are very thankful that God protected our home from such an ordeal.
(But I still really shouldn’t stay up that late very often in the future!)
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The Happy Housewife says:
My parents entire house flooded from a similar situation. My mom woke up in the middle of the night to water throughout the entire house! I am thankful you only a small flood!
Toni
August 4th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Kate says:
I am thankful you stayed up later than you should have. How awesome that you were able to catch the problem before it became devastating.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Hilma says:
Your story brought back a memory for me…. it was late, past my daughter’s bedtime. I kept trying to get her to go to bed because I was exhausted. It was winter so I had a fire in the wood stove (the only thing I heat with) and all of a sudden we heard this whoosing sound…. the chimney was on fire… had we went to bed we would not have heard it… Only Yahwey knows what would have happened. That is one time I was thankful for her rebellion… He used it to save our home and probably our lives.
and reminding me of my own…. He knew I needed a reminder of His protection and that He is in control!
TFS your story
August 4th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Marie says:
Glad your kitchen wasn’t flooded! Sometimes, okay only in your case, does staying up late pay off!
August 4th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Donna says:
…if your boys are anything like mine…..can you imagine if they had got up to all that water?!?!?!
Thanks be to the Lord you two were up!
Hope its easily fixed!
August 5th, 2008 at 2:47 am
MC says:
I’m so excited to participate for the very first time!
August 5th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Stacy says:
So glad you were awake!
August 5th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Teresa says:
Isn’t it amazing how differently men and women think…and how it is such a good thing!
August 5th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Patti says:
I am thankful that God made men and women so different…that we could “complete” each other. I am thankful that I now live in a place, in South Jersey, where a large group of women desire to be moms who are daily transformed by the love of Christ…truly “complete” when being led by the Spirit of God. Come visit our blog.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:32 am
Stephanie @ Keeper of the Home says:
See, staying up late isn’t all that bad!
Oh, how I struggle with going to bed early enough at night!
Flooding at night is not a good thing. God was kind to have you up that night. The other night I awoke to go to the bathroom, and discovered that I was standing in a pool of water. How glad was I to have drank all that extra water before bedtime!
August 6th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Tanya says:
I marvel at how God works out the timing of things:) Great story!
August 6th, 2008 at 2:39 pm