What Some Appliances Will Do For Attention.....

When Little Rita was born, she came 8 weeks early and without warning....talk about not being ready! We had barely bought her a crib when she came into this world. She was just a tiny little 3 pound baby, and had to stay in the hospital for a month.
One of the things you have to do when your kid is in the hospital is PUMP! And Im not talking about iron here! Breast milk...and then freeze it so you can bring it into the hospital and...well you get the picture....
So what does all this have to do with that picture up there? Well, during all this breast pumping/milk freezing/neonatal experience, we realized our freezer was in desperate need of defrosting.....the walls of ice quickly closing in on our precious mothers milk supply.
We decided to go the quick route to rid ourselves of the evil ice....the hammer and knife routine....
OK, in a word.....Freon....bright green, spraying out all over the milk, the ice, me, Ratburn....dead refridgerator, kid in hospital.....postpartum mom...spells major major postpartum freakout! Major! Enough said....
So, we had to go out and buy a fridge, a big, ugly, energy sucking used fridge, because well, do you have any idea how much a new fridge costs? We didnt!
Sooo....fast forward to ten years later...as you know, Little Rita is now a tall, healthy 10 year old, so lets not worry about that preemie thing and her month in the hospital...... BUT
WTF is the deal with that fridge up there?
Wellllll, one of the other things that comes with parenthood is that you get to have one million teeny tiny toys all over your house! So after looking at this ugly fridge for 10 years, Mr Ratburn and I got out the hot glue gun, and the Bushmills......and voila!
And here we have Little Rita, owner of one million tiny toys, posing with our crazy fridge! Have a lovely day everyone! (Click picture to check out all the tiny things in biggy form!)