Where do I even start... Why I must be blessed

1. Last week I left a pot of chicken boiling on the stove for 4 hours while I ran errands. When i got home, black smoke was so thick in my house, I could even see my hand in front of my face. Luckily, there were NO flames, and we still have a house- stinky, but standing.
2. My neighbors found out about the smoke, came in and took all of my launderable belongings to thier houses to be washed, and brought them back. Another neighbor brought her steam cleaner and I cleaned the carpets and the couches, etc. What wonderful neighbors.
3. We drove to Estes Park, Colorado last week to spend a week with my entire family. We almost died twice on the way there- once in a random ice-storm, and once when a herd of elk appeared on the dark road-both narrowly averted.
4. I've had 3 weeks of pneumonia (in the spring) feeling better mostly now.
5. Everything in our house is breaking. The lovely part of that is that nothing broke for 2 years while Jeremy was is school and didn't have time to fix it!
6. Jer's car WAS on its last leg. We really didn't want to buy a new one right now, but spent quite a bit of time looking for new trucks. All of the sudden, his old one works better than it ever has!
7. I backed into a car- no damage for either of us!

Needless to say, my life seems helter-skelter, I could honestly go on and on. My instinct is to stay in bed and wait it out, but what mom of 3 ( or any) can do that? Besides... I do realize that I am incredibly blessed, and things aren't bad, I am just getting a HUGE glimpse of how GOOD it really is! All update more soon.