The refrigerator died about a week and a half ago so since then we’ve been using the little icebox that came home from college with my daughter for the summer.

The new one was delivered today. It’s still being installed. The whole experience, while annoying and expensive, has me very grateful.

• For having the resources to replace the broken one without breaking the bank.
• For the folks at the store that wangled a refrigerator for me, despite the back order time for the model I wanted being 4-6 weeks.
• For having a back up – albeit much smaller.
• For having an awesome installer team – Phil and Glover – who ever so gently and carefully edged the behemoth broken fridge out of the house without making a scratch and the new equally enormous one in.

I’m a lucky gal.