So – – we got home from our wonderful vacation and had a FLOODED BASEMENT. The city turned on the secondary water while we were gone and we thought that we had it turned off but we did not.

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It was really flooded. The entire basement was soaked at ground level. We had to throw out all of our carpet and now we’ve been home for 3 days and we are still trying to get the walls dried out. Monday and Tuesday were spent calling insurance and water damage company and waiting for return calls and people to come over and inspections and… not how I wanted to spend my week.

annoyances: the constant hum of fans. They have the basement heated up to 95 degrees so it feels like I’m still in Costa Rica. Trying to live in half of our house and that half is very cluttered with things that belong in the other half of the house. Huge machinery is plugged in to all of my outlets so I am without a laundry room and a stove/oven.

Anyway I just feel like I’m in over my head. We have been working on the toy room and last week we painted our downstairs family room so we have been busy doing those projects at night and neglecting some of the usual. Then we went on vacation and brought home luggage from us and kids which always takes a day or two to recover from. Now throw a flooded basement on top of that and you have a not happy Jana and Ben. We had to get the downstairs stuff off of the floor so we have clutter everywhere and can’t use the downstairs at all. Now we have a St. George Spring Break trip planned for this weekend… hoping our house is dry enough to still go. And my family is then coming to town the day we get back from St. George – our hopes of a finished play room and new carpet are simply a past dream – instead we will be carpetless, with no TV and we just sold our guest bed – sorry family we’ll have to make do.