The kids went to clubhouse on Monday and won the sand sculpture contest! We had lunch and then got on the road to try to beat rush hour traffic. We got home and turned on the air conditioning - it was hot and gross in our house. The kids and I went to Mom's house for a visit. We got to see Jo's caterpillars. We left before the rain came. We stopped at Aldi to pick up some basics and got a pizza for dinner. The rain started as we arrived home and didn't stop until early morning. The basement was fine until about 10. I went down to pick up my labels and with every step I took, the floor tiles bled water. When I lifted the tiles by the drain...the drain was a geyser. I screamed to Rob to come help. We got out injection pump hooked up and draining into the sink. It quickly filled both basins and then Rob put it directly into the sump. We got to most of the tiles up and vacuumed as much as we could. The power dropped out a couple times. Around midnight we decided we had done all we could and we would just create a force field of positive energy.
Tuesday morning we woke up and were on the road up to watch the babies. The kids loved having some one on one time with each of the girls. We did a bit of thrifting on our way home. The kids played outside for a couple hours before we had dinner and went to cool off at the pool.
Today I tried to troubleshoot the DSL connection issue with at&t. I found out our connection was all good with them - meaning our router/modem fizzled out with the power outages. Mom picked us up mid morning and we headed out to Schaumburg to meet Dad for lunch to celebrate his birthday. We introduced Mom to Savers. We ate at Jason's Deli...it was fun for the kids. They got to see where Gramps works. We did some shopping on the way back home. The kids played outside when we got home and then we went to the library for our check in. I was able to pick up a new router/modem and we can connect again.
Happy Birthday, Dad!
Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree
No comments:
Post a Comment