The Flood of 2008

How do I describe what happened Sunday, June 22nd....how about I start it like this. I was back home from church with my daughters at 1:00, fixing them lunch when Kristina came up to me and said, "something is in the hall." In the past she has said there's a cockroach, snake, our dog threw up or peed on the floor but this time I knew something was different. I walked to the hall, turned on the light and there was the flood of 2008 in front of me. The cause: da toilet backed up and all this water was in the hall!!!! 3 hours later I had pulled up most of the water with my steam vac and surveyed the damage. The hall, the extra bedroom and our bedroom. I did not know at the time but our living room also got water once the water remediation team came out to remove the carpet on Monday. Now we are looking at putting down wood flooring in our living room, hall, and possibly the two bedrooms. While we are at it we are going to put down flooring in the girls playroom which is also the dinning room.

There are no words to describe the range of emotions this week. But through it all I have to say that that my wife Kathy was wonderful. Even though I did most the work this week from cleanup, to most of the packing and unpacking, laundry, and a few other misc. things....of course I won't let Kathy do any hard lifting because of the back surgery from November....we have relatively come through this without pulling out our hair or pulling out each other's hair. I'm thankful to our Lord that He kept us pretty sane through all of this.

What's next???? Picking out the correct flooring and taking our time to install. We are not in any rush to having this done by next week but I think a timetable of finishing by Christmas is our goal. We both work. We have two daughters that need our attention. I have a lawn to mow, bills to pay, family and friends that need our fellowship and life that just needs to be lived one day at a time. Nothing more and nothing less.