You can't help but wonder

This is the current state of our basement/laundry room. On Monday morning we had the plumber out to see why the floor drain was not draining. They left us knowing there was probably a broken pipe under the floor. We scheduled them to come out Thursday to fix it. It entailed using a jack hammer to breakup the cement and digging a hole and all sorts of other things. Sounds expensive doesn't it? Yup it is. Dane did sleep through most of the jack hammering. Seriously he is a light sleeper but they showed up shortly after he fell asleep and he slept for at least 45 minutes all the while we could not hardly talk to each other over the noise. He did wake up pretty freaked out though since it was still going on.
Anyway I would have been left to deal with all this on my own, I was prepared, really all I had to do was write the check and be inconvenienced for awhile but it is still stressful. They also found most of our drain pipe was clogged and were amazed our kitchen sink even drains at all. I guess I can't be surprised 70 years of muck is bound to build up over time. Think $$ signs just adding up. We are fortunate though that this is our first major home repair.

Leading up to the time Andy left we or at least I was hoping for some quiet non eventful days tying up loose ends. It turns out we were pretty busy up until tuesday, with Dane's birthday, my grandma's funeral and my family staying overnight on their way home, which was a nice surprise. Then the whole pipe situation.
When I first got the call that they were sending Andy home, I couldn't help but wonder I wonder why, besides the obvious reason. My first thought was most extreme like maybe his plane was going to crash and God saved him from getting on it or some other major catastrophe.

Then we have the latest headlines with the Ft. Hood Massacre that happened yesterday, now that is a little creepy and very disturbing. I can't watch the news coverage non-stop because it is just depressing. He is going to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, but still you can't help but wonder why a little cold stopped him from being shipped out the day it was planned. And I still don't know, maybe we never will. Or maybe God knew I would need a little extra time and support with all the seemingly little things going on in our lives right now, or maybe it is part of a bigger picture. What ever reason it is, it is all in God's hands and he has it all under control.