raining

Yesterday was a beautiful day! It was warm, the sun was shining and the skies were beautiful. We spent most of the day working outside, pulling weeds, building our new grow boxes and planting a vegetable garden. It was a long, sunny, wonderful hardworking kind of day. We used the exterior hose to water the newly planted garden, looking forward to winding down and relaxing for the evening. I stepped back inside the house and hear Butterfly crying and screaming that it was raining and the water is going to get her. Strange, since she was inside the house watching Sesame Street while we were finishing up. I dash downstairs to investigate and discover water pouring from the light fixtures in the ceiling and starting to create other obvious bulges and puddles in the ceiling. I ran back up the stairs calling for daddy, he turns the water off while I comfort two little girls and let daddy deal with the mess.

Our insurance company immediately sent a team to come check it out. This is especially impressive because these two young men drove an hour to our house, arriving at 7:30 on Saturday night and then played disaster crew until midnight. They removed all the furniture (including a water laden sofa) pulled up all the carpet and removed the ceiling (discovering the culprit--a broken pipe). I escaped with the girls to a wonderful outdoor concert with (and featuring) family. After I clarified a water pipe had broke and not my "water" had broken (i am pregnant after all), we settled in for some music, playtime with cousins and some late night dessert while the disaster crew went to work.

We finally went home where Butterfly insisted on seeing "the boys" and telling them hello and thank you. Then we let her sleep on the couch in our bedroom, away from the noisy fans and the mess (still claiming the water was going to get her).

So that was our adventure of the day. The damage to our personal belongings is fortunately minimal (the house being less fortunate) and plumbing and construction is already scheduled. The downstairs will be generally out of commission for awhile so daddy moved the tv and some toys to our bedroom upstairs and the girls think its awesome to watch movies while laying in bed.

Well, "when it rains, it pours!"