I have learned as a single Mom to do many things that I thought I would never do. When I accomplish something which is unusual for any female to do, I call it a Boo Ya moment.

The lastest Boo Ya moment happened last week. My daughter’s handle on her toilet had broken. She asked me if I could call my warranty company and have them come out to fix it.

Last time I had my warranty company come out to fix something it cost me close to $400.00. I do not have that kind of money floating through the air at my home, so I decided to take a look at the toilet myself. I told her,”I thought I could fix it myself.”

I examined it closely and realized if I unscrewed the plastic thing that was on the inside of the toilet bowl, I could put the new handle that I had purchased in. Problem was that sucker was screwed so tight it would take more muscles than what I have to unscrew it. What I needed was a man. Thank God a friend of mine had reserved me for an evening that week.

He came over to take me to an elegant dinner and I wrangled him into looking at it. Sweet chap didn’t complain once about looking at a broken toilet when he came over. (It was flushed and clean, don’t worry)

After he looked at it he told me he would need some tools. I have tools, boy do I have tools. What I didn’t have, was the one tool he needed. We did not have the perfect size wrench to unscrew the plastic device, which connected the handle to the flap thingy. What I did have, was saws. I figured if we couldn’t unscrew it, we could saw it to smithereens.

So we started sawing and effectively sawed off enough plastic that there was no way it could be removed now. Geez, the elegant dinner was looking so good right now, that we took off for our event.

I spent sometime that night praying to God about it and in the morning a vision of one of my saws came into my mind. I got the impression that that saw was the answer to my prayer. In a couple of days I took that pointy saw to the plastic again and was successful in removing the obstacle and placing my new handle on the toilet.

I was excited as I realized this was definitely a “Boo ya” moment. Now if I can just figure out the electrical system in my car I will be really happy. Hmmm….