An electrical part on our refrigerator broke sometime last Sunday evening.  We noticed last night that the freezer seemed a little warm and assumed that the door must’ve been left slightly ajar during the day.  When the stuff in the freezer seemed even more melted this morning, we knew we had a problem.

So I called the refrigerator repairman from Sears (since that’s where we got our fridge).  They said we were scheduled for an appointment somewhere during the hours of 8am to Noon.  Super.  It, naturally, wasn’t until 2:45pm that someone actually showed up.  Nice.

The repairman replaced the part and the fridge seemed to work fine after that.  Not a warranty replacement, so it was a “bargain” to get out with just a $275 charge.  The only problem is that the stuff in the freezer was so thawed that it could not be refrozen.  It’s actually nice to chuck out a bunch of stuff that was just taking up space in the freezer.  I highly recommend just such a purge to everyone, regardless of the working order of your freezer.  Probably be useful once a year.

The only bummer is that there was about a month’s worth of frozen breast milk in there for little Zoe.  All that had to go.  Now Zoe is at risk for not getting a full year’s worth of breast milk exclusively.  We’re not very happy about that, but the lactation consultants were quite clear about tossing the milk.