A Not So Sperry Good Time

Well, we haven't posted anything for a good while now. It's been an eventful last 3 weeks or so in our lives. I wish I could say that it was a good eventful 3 weeks, but I cannot. Sometimes life has a way of humbling you when things are going well.

We had just finally got the itch paint Kaitlyn and Savannah's room, and followed through with it for a change on the 16th. We finished that up, and were pretty pleased with how well it turned out, and had already started talking about which room we were to do next.

The next morning we received word that my sister Andrea and her husband were to have their little boy. Though the circumstances behind the delivery were a bit worriesome, when all was said and done, it was a good day. Baby Nathan arrived healthy, and Andrea did well too.

And then....the humbling. We sprung a leak in the night in our upstairs guest bathroom, and woke up to quite the mess. Frantically throwing towels down to try and mop up the mess in our hallway, Leslie and I knew this was bad and that no amount of towels we threw down would bail us out of this (though I do believe that we used every towel in the linen closet). Comfirming our fears even further, we walked dowstairs only to see water dripping for our ceiling in the family room, and down the wall by our sliding door. Running to grab buckets to catch the water, we tried to figure out who to call. When we figured it out, we waited with knots in our stomachs as the water remediation company arrived to assess the damage. Well, long story short....the flood happened on the 18th, and we just arrived home yesterday....almost 3 weeks after the incident. Some replaced drywall, carpet, baseboards, and an insurance deductible later, we are again trying to put the pieces to our house back together again. I'll try to post pictures later.

Let me say how grateful I am to both Jeannine for letting us stay at her house that first evening, and to my parents, for taking us into their home again while we awaited the day we could come back. In such a stressful situation, the support we received from family made me feel comfortated. I will always appreciate the help we received.