A Cake Full of Blessings (simply because cake is tasty)

I recently summarized in a Facebook status update that some rather beautiful blessings have been bestowed upon us:

CAKE BATTER... About mid-summer, I received an electric bill in the mail (not an uncommon occurrence, as one can imagine), so eager to pay the thing off ASAP, I peeled the envelope open immediately, but was flabbergasted at how high it was: almost twice as much as usual. Seeing as it was the weekend, the company would be closed until Monday, and my impatient pay-it-off-now self decided to pay it. After all, there had in fact been a day when I forgot the oven an all. day. long. which in my mind could have very well shot the bill up. When I'd asked my husband about it, he didn't think it abnormal. He actually thought it more accurate since we had the AC on more than usual lately. So, I wrote the check, turned in the payment, and forgot about it.
The next month appeared seemingly out of nowhere and that cute little "Empire Electric" bill materialized itself into another tangible deadline in our mailbox. Opened that sucker up and guess what... NO BILL!!! It seemed that we were over-billed previously which completely paid off the next bill, plus a small part of this month's.

FROSTING....For quite sometime we've had a couple people offer on more than one occasion to sell a washer & dryer to us cheap. For some reason though, the opportunity to actually go through with such a transaction never arose. That some reason; however, would be this: Our neighbor in the apartment below/across from us informed us they'd be moving out soon and offered us their washer and dryer- for free (as long as we helped load up the moving truck, of course)! I believe anyone would see this as a more than fair deal, so of course, we accepted the offer. We already have the washer in our possession. It's fancy (in my mind anyway).

SPRINKLES... Ever since Aaron moved his things in at the end of last semester, one of the burners of the stove was rather awkwardly faulty. Anytime any other burner was turned on, but especially when the oven was put to use, this one little burner in the back right corner would heat up simultaneously (without deliberately being turned on) and often get hotter than it normally would on its highest setting! We ignored it for awhile, despite our poor teapot's tortured screams anytime we forgot to move it to another burner. Eventually we had the maintenance guy look at it, but of course, it wouldn't misbehave for him. The real breaking point to finally get it fixed though was one day while I was baking something in the oven, stove off, and the dumb thing melted 3 of my 4 stove covers, causing the apartment to smell like burning paint chemicals. What a headache. In response to our crisis, the maintenance man, who's been so patient and helpful with us, seeing as we seem to file a work order every other week, calmly assessed the situation, and decided (at no cost to us) that he'd completely replace the entire oven-stove unit.
It was like Christmas at 8 years old when he wheeled that beauty into our apartment. Shiny, right out of the box, all expensive looking. Oh, but don't worry; we broke that thing in real fast. Not so shiny now.

The Lord is our provider, even in (to some) the simplest ways. In my opinion though, those are pretty big deals.