Have you ever had one of those days...

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Hi all,

Have you ever had one of those days when you wake up and things just

don't flow like they normally do?? Well, today was one of those days

for us. First thing I do is walk into my boys' room to get them up for

school and they are sitting in the same bed together coughing. One of

them is croupy coughing! They say to me, " We are sick! " I am sure I

had a look of horror on my face as they have never both been sick like

this at the same time, and I immediately start saying to God in my mind,

" Please don't let them end up in the hospital at the same time!! " Then

after letting the dog outside to throw-up--thank God, I got her out just

in time, I walk thru the kitchen and I notice a puddle of water in a

seam of our laminate flooring. I clean it up, and step down noticing

that there is MUCH MORE water in the crack. I also notice there is

water on both sides of the crack meaning it is on the kitchen side and

the living room side. Further investigation shows that it runs all the

way down the seam. I immediately get a hold of the Plumber, which thank

God he tells me he can be here within 2 hours. Better yet, he shows up

in a half hour, Yay!! He can't find the leak, so he has to tear part of

my wall out and part of my ceiling out to find it. But, he finds it!

Yay again!!! Well, to make a long story short I am in shock thru this

whole fiasco because we had only put in our new laminate floors &

ceiling, etc. in the last year and a half. Then the abatement company

comes out and starts tearing up our liminate floors and the water is

under the kitchen, dining room and part of the living room floors. (The

laminate floors we have are glued together. They are not the newer kind

that locks in place requiring no glue which means a lot more of it has

to be pulled up, from seam to seam, and replaced than just pulling out a

small section and replacing the small section.) There is more bad news

to this story, but this gives you an idea of what our day was like. I

hope yours was better all. I haven't even had a chance to check my

email posts.

Please pray that the kids will get healthy as there is a lot of junk

flying through the air in our house now with all of the events of the

day. They want us to keep all of the doors and windows closed as the

dehumidifiers are running along with fans to dry walls, cabinets, etc.

Thanks for letting me vent!

Shirley, mom to and Jordan