Water, Water Everywhere!

Ok, so water wasn't everywhere, but I felt the title of one of Avery's bath books seemed appropriate for how we felt!  Let me back track a bit...after our neighbors basically called us white trash last week because we hadn't had time to make our yard look as pristine as all the retired folk around us that have all the time in the world, we spent the entire weekend weeding, edging, laying tons of mulch and planting some flowers.  The first few pics are of how great the house looks outside.  Ok, back to the title of this blog.  After a long day in the yard yesterday I walked into the house, while Artie was outside cleaning garden tools with the hose, and yup water, water everywhere.  Apparently our spigot froze over the winter and water poured into the house and covered 3 of our 6 main rooms plus a bedroom closet and our big hall closet, FUN!  I go into panic mode mostly due to pure exhaustion and we had Steamatic out to clean it and put up their big equipment to dry stuff out.  They got Avery's room cleaned enough so she could go to bed and then they left for the night and came back this morning to tear up all of our flooring in the affected areas, bye-bye laminate.  It is really hard to have no flooring in almost half of our living space, especially with two dogs and an 11 month old!  We are trying to look on the bright side, we don't have it as bad as other flood victims, especially recent ones.  We also have a great daughter, who made us smile when we were so stressed this morning.  She was helping with the laundry (one of her favorite things) and got one of my tanks and put it over her to wear.  It was so cute and just really put things in perspective for us.  Luckily nothing personal was damaged, and even though water was completely in the room with our workout machines they still turn on.  I guess these things are just the joys of owning your own house:)