Water - the five step process to ruining your stuff

1. Frazier (my dog) wouldn't drink any water. He's afraid of the water spigot thingy that pours water into his bowl. So I brought him into the house and he left trails of hair everywhere.

2. Zoë dumped red water (5 parts water 1 part punch) on our carpet.

3. We went swimming at the local pool. We left in a thunderstorm and dragged all our sopping wet kids and bodies into my car - it was soaked.

4. Alex and I were on our way to bed and he discovered that our washing machine broke and dumped all the waste water all over the floor. Our laundry room is on the 2nd floor by the way. We mopped up the floor with everything from bath towels to Emmett's blankets. Alex then drilled a few holes in the ceiling and hooked up a vacuum to one side and turned it on - hoping that the air flow would air the water damage. He's such an engineer.

5. At midnight I discovered that the water had leaked into the ceiling of the music room - BIG damage. It was dripping on the carpet - Alex's guitar fell off the wall and smashed because the moisture was in the walls - we had to move all the furniture because the possibility of the ceiling coming down that night was huge. Whoops.

Crazy thing - I thought I was just going to cry - but Alex and I ended up laughing last night. Every time we thought of the days events we would laugh again. So - it's day one of demolition. "Action Catastrophic" came to the house and started pulling things down. More tomorrow...