I'm an idiot. No, really. Saturday night was a busy night. After dinner we had to
1. bathe five kids
2. pack Michelle's suitcase
3. nurse the baby
4. mow the lawn
5. get ice cream from the icecream truck (because we PROMISED, darn it!)
So Ethan headed out the back door to mow the lawn. I started Ryan in his bath and left Allie to supervise him, which she does well. I came downstairs to nurse the baby. At some point Ryan was done in the bath and I had to take a break from Samantha to dress him for bed. At some point the girls heard the ice cream truck getting closer to the house and were running around like crazy. At some point I started Emmie's bath. At some point I put Ryan to bed, paid for icecream, got interrupted by neighbors, had the four year old neighbor girl running around my house, and got back to Samantha to finish feeding her. Guess what I didn't do? STOP THE BATHTUB! Yeah. It flooded our entire bathroom. Big time. I about threw Sammie off my lap when I remembered. I ran upstairs and started putting towels all over the carpet, trying to sop it up. Then I heard Ethan yelling for me, because water was coming through the ceiling of the garage! Turns out we are going to have to re-build the floor of the bathroom.
Ugh. I wish I could say that our crummy weekend ended with that. But as luck would have it . . . Sunday afternoon Ryan (during an unsupervised moment) plugged our downstairs sink with a towel and flooded the downstairs bathroom! Ethan and I did our best to dry it up with all the dry towels we had left, which wasn't many. We don't know the extent of the damage there but have decided we'll wait until the upstairs repair is done before we find out.
I don't know if there's any chance our insurance will help with this, but I'm afraid we won't be going to Lagoon this year after all. Thank goodness we had saved up some money for a vacation or we'd really be in trouble.
This weekend we were like the poster family for not having a bunch of children, but luckily life is not usually so chaotic! Gotta love it.
4 comments:
that's horrible! I hope you guys will be able to do it yourselves though, and not have to pay someone else do the floors. Someone (maybe you!) should invent a timer for bathtubs, as I'm sure lots of people have done that. Kind of like how some fast food chains have a button to select which drink size the soda fountain is filling up. Only, for the bath tub. Could make a lot of money....:)
I'm so sorry! It's amazing what can happen when our minds are so full and overwhelmed. Give yourself a little grace...we all do stuff like that at some point. :)
eddie says: buy a shop vac.
or fish.
Thanks for the support, girls! :)
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