We’re coming out of a very hectic September. We’ve been working very hard at getting into and staying in a routine around here. I’m still getting use to the nanny/work arrangement, things like: getting all the bottles ready for her, getting my pumping supplies ready for work, getting dinner made a day in advance on work days, doing all laundry and errands on non-work days, etc. We still have not mastered it, but are slowly getting more efficient. It can only get easier (right?).
It didnt help that in the middle of September our basement flooded. So for 2 weeks we had a constant parade of workers in the house figuring out and fixing the problem. Which ended up being our neighbors water heater leaking into our basement through a hole for over 24 hours, resulting in a few inches of water and completely ruining the finished guest-room carpet. Phil went down to the basement to grab some paper towels on Friday evening and stepped on the carpet and it was saturated. He went further into the basement and found much more water! Luckily, most of our things were either up on shelves or stored in plastic containers (you know, just in case our basement every flooded). We spent hours that night pumping water and surveying the damage. Some old books were ruined, but we didnt really lose anything critical. (Side note: thankfully we discovered the issue after happy hour with some friends. A few beers made this problem not quite as bad as it might have been otherwise!) Anyway – its really not a sob story, just a pain in the ass. I only wrote it all out so that Phil and I can look back in 50 years and say…remember that time our basement flooded?
almost pumped out
I’m happy to report everything is now fixed and the guest-room is back to normal. Just in time for Phil and Maggie to visit in a few weeks! WOohoo. I’m counting on October to be fun and smooth-sailing!
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