Maybe you haven't had that feeling. Pulling into the driveway after a week away and a very long trip home. Still so much work left to do before we can truly relax, but we are home.
Home sweet home. Where the cats decide to use the bathroom mat for a litter box. And one of them thought it would be fun to try the armchair in the living room.
Home sweet home where the basement flooded while we were gone. And the cats couldn't use their boxes because they are in the basement. And the water saturated the precious schoolbooks we used this year for the little kids. Expensive, lovely books.
Dear friends come to our rescue that night with dinner and a shop vac. Tracy stayed until 10:30 helping.
Our mothers are in a car the next day. We must sound desperate. They come to hold the baby and scrub the floors with bleach. They do a wonderful job. Baby is content and floors are now clean. But we can't save the books.
Though we try with crazy schemes. They were all laid out on the deck when a storm blew in complete with tornado sirens. We grabbed the books shortly before we headed to the (now clean) basement. We've frozen them, baked them, and stuffed them with paper towels. It's unsure as to how any of that will work. So far, about 2 trash bags of books have been tossed. The fate of 30 is still undecided.
7 comments:
Sorry about the books. :-(
~Susan
OMG! Apryl...so sorry. We once returned from a "vaction" complete with 2 ER visits only to find that our freezer full of meat had died...sometime early in the week. The WHOLE house smelled like rancid meat. DH had been one of the ER visits with uncontrolable vommitting, so I got the joy of shoving vicks up my nose and diving in to rid the house of that mess.
It is good to be home...once you get to stop and realize it. :)
Hang in there. Sorry about your books. That stinks.
KP
Oh Apryl, I'm so sorry! Sounds like quite a trip!
Hmmm,
isn't this the same vacation last year when your mini van broke down? I am sorry about the books. It is one of the reasons I keep books upstairs. I hope you will recover soon.
love, Lenka
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Steph
Wow! Now I know why we postponed a cross-country vacation this summer. We went on a cross-country trip last summer with just the 3 kids and I was leary of going with the 5. Thanks for the confirmation (and in such a humorous way!).
Boo hoo! That totally stinks! I'm so sorry. That's very sad about the books...I love books!
Your trip reminded me of our trip to the Gulf Coast in June - two 12 hour days of driving. Not fun. The trip was fun. The long days of driving...not so much.
I'm so thankful the reinforcements were able to make it to you guys so quickly! Hopefully your basement will stay dry in the future!
Erica
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