Down the Drain

An unbelievable tragedy happened yesterday.

About 5 yesterday afternoon, I went into the garage to fetch bottles of water for our lunches and discovered....the freezer door was WIDE OPEN. Every ounce of breast milk that I had so painstakingly stored over the last 4 months was melted, warm and ruined. I was DEVASTATED.

This is an older refrigerator/freezer that I hated in our kitchen, so we bought a new fridge so we could have a garage fridge (great for beer storage, by the way). I've noticed before that you really have to make sure that the doors are closed tightly or they'll fly open. I guess in the hustle and bustle of daily life the last few days, one of us didn't securely close the freezer door, and the inevitable happened. Not sure who actually did it...it could've been either of us, and frankly the whodunit isn't important. We just now have no reserves. And...I have lost HOURS of work.

The good news is that we have rarely needed to use this frozen milk...but from time to time we have, and it's been nice knowing it was there.

It's done, it's over...I won't continue to cry over ruined milk.