Thought I'd give a little update on the house since I found some pics on the computer this morning. It's been 38 days since we've slept in our own beds...but who's counting, right?? This whole experience has really been a great eye opener for me. It's funny how much you learn to appreciate all you have once it's taken away. For example, my little house! For awhile now we have been feeling like it was time for us to begin a plan to save and work towards getting a bigger house. We love our house, but we have really felt the growing pains since having Noah. Every room, closet, and cabinet is full to the top! I had been working really hard to become content with our house and make the best of it. I must say, I had really come to love and appreciate living there all the way up until the flood. In the first week out of the house I was definitely having a ton of frustrated thoughts about the house and how everything seems to go wrong for the house and us! I was sort of having one of those "when it rains, it pours" moments...except I felt like it had been pouring for like a year! Now looking back, I have just been so humbled. Mostly by the way God has literally blessed my socks off since this happened! Every time I turn around, its like he is providing yet something else for me. Sometimes it's just a wave a peace..and other times it's something more tangible like unexpected income. It's also been so eye opening to see how much you appreciate the small things when you are living with very little. We only brought a suitcase or so of clothes, a variety of kitchen items, and a few toys for the kids and that's it! At our home, everything we own is packed into a pod in the driveway...and you know...there are very few things that I actually miss right now! I'm SO looking forward to returning to my home (hopefully this week) and clearing out all the crud and junk in my life that I've been holding onto so tightly that I really don't need. We are still planning to put the house up for sale soon, but now we will leave this house with a bittersweet tie to it! I can truly say there is "no place like home" and I can't wait to get back to my own house that is so sweet and comforting to my family. And in the meantime..I am praising God for once again bringing me to a place where I have to completely trust his plan for me, instead of my own big plans for my future.
This is song is so true to my life right now..
Here are some pictures a day or two after while they were still drying things out:
All the hard wood was ripped up at this point, but they were trying to save the carpet..
2 days later and the machines had still pulled all of this water out of the walls and air..
And now these next ones were taken this week:
This is the bathroom where it happened and they replaced a lot of the insulation and drywall on this wall. Now it is all painted and you can't even tell anymore.
Still finishing up some painting of the closet doors and base boards, but most everything is back in place.
Can't wait to get the floors back in! They ended up pulling up all floors in the entire house (minus the kitchen and bathrooms where we have ceramic tile)
Master bedroom. Almost all walls and baseboards were repainted (minus the kitchen where there was no damage and the playroom where they did baseboards only)
Waterlines GONE now in Masterbath
Behind the laundry closet where there was a lot of water damage before. It sits across the hall from where the leak happened.
This drywall and insulation on this wall was also replaced. A pretty big part of the wall. The worst was down here in the corner though where the water had overflowed from the tub along this wall.
Had to get Noah out of there before he made any more new wholes in the walls!!!
I was so impressed with how well they matched all of the paint in the house! They did a great job on everything so far!! They have really gone above and beyond to make sure we were happy.
Last week I went and picked out the new floors and they should be installed any day now! Then we unpack and move in!! Can't wait!!
