Thanksful Thursday-Wetness

If
you did not read Tuesdays post thenyou don’t know that we had a bit of a
tragedy when we returned home from being a away for two weeks on
vacation. We had a flood the last week we were gone. Not just a small
flood eithr….Our automatic Ice maker in our freezer has a flexi tube
that runs into the floor behind the fridge. Apparently due to Vibration
it rubbed a hole right into the flexi tube and we had a CONSTANT stream
of water for who knows how long. So there was an inch and a half of
water in the kitchen and most of the water had run down through the
floor/ basement ceilieng…Soaked the basement floor , bubbled brand new
4 month old paint on the walls, broke some drop tiles in the basement
bathroon and the floor literally squished when you walked on it! Not
to mention the musty smell that ad over taken the whole house! But
through all of this I have fuound quite a few things to be thankful for:
So here they are in no particular order

  • Hubby wasn’t away by himself when it happened and I was left home alone to deal with all the mess
  • it wasn’t a fire! What a tragedy that would have been to get a
    call or come home to no house or any of our stuff which leads me to..
  • we only lost one thing and we were trying to decided whether or not to get ride of it anyway!
  • It wasn’t that wya for the two full weeks…we would have had serious mold problem and much much more work to do on the house
  • that the carpets are mostly dry now in the basement and all the wet in the ceiling has been removed
  • That it wasn’t sewage in our basement…two pastors ago a problem
    with town sewer caused sewage to back up into the parsonage and well it
    wasn’t pretty and the pastor’s family had to vacate the house for a
    while since the smell was so bad!
  • No one was hurt
  • it’s an easy fix

So what makes you thankful?

Tackle It tuesday

Absence yet again…But this time it was out of a lack of internet
connection…We were on Vacation..MOSTLY. Hubby was taking a class out
in Detroit Michigan and the kids and I were camping in a camper
THANKFULLY. However the surprise we came home to nearly washed us all
away.
Almost literally . Sometime during our last week away our Freezer
sprung a leak…actually it is the water tube running to the ice
machine in the freezer. Can you say water water everywhere. So as I
planned on blogging about our trip when we returned home on Friday Well
as you guessed NEVER happened…Hmmm I wonder why.
Luckily none of our stuff was ruined and we are in the process of drying
out. The floor is nearly there…But the insulation in the ceiling is
soaked yet and need s to literally be Popped! LOL. That will be done
this evening and then they will pull out the insulation and let the
ceiling dry out. As you can guess unitl everything dries out I have a
needless to say disheveled basement that does not smell very pretty. I
must say it is better that what happened two pastors ago when sewage
back up into the basem,ent…That was a Lovely experience for all I am
told!
Anywho despite all of this I have a few things that need to be
accoumplished today. They are..

  1. charge batteries for camera so I can take pictures!
  2. vug has his evaluation this morning at nine
  3. shower
  4. Finish wasking the last two loads of Laundry
  5. Organize the boys bedroom closet
  6. Have the Trustee and his fam,ily come for dinner and work on the basement ceiling
  7. oh and have hubby and older tewo kids shop for groceries while Vug has his Eval

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!

Tackle It tuesday-My to-do List!

Well today like any other day in our life will be B-U-S-Y
So here is what is on the plate for today..

    • Blue cords for my Sunday School class
    • Make Tornado’s B-day cake…(yeah it’s late But yesterday was NUTS!

White or yellow cake mix. Make as directed when
finished baking poke holes with the end of a wooden spoon all the way
through cake…Use pudding or jello in liquid form and poor over cake.
lrt cool completely.  Then mix half cup of instant pudding mix to one
container of cool whip.  MIX thoroughly!!  Use this as frosting! (*NOTE*
we use Pistachio pudding we get from a local bulk foods store)

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  • Got Milk? Banners for our towns Dairy day parade float!
  •  Figure out how to make milk mustaches Face Paint. I have face paint crayons that will work great!
  • Start a cleanup of craft room
  • hang up clothes in our closet! (leftovers from the weekend!)

As you can tell it will be a VERY busy day and Hubby has a deacon’s meeting tonight.
I will post picture as they are completed. Kind of a photo checklist if you will!