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That's how many chigger bites my daughter had on her body when she woke up this morning, thirty one. I know I've said it before, but stick a fork in me...SO done. Sigh. Okay so, pretty much yesterday was another plumber coming out to take a look at the drain in the basement b/c even though the sewage was gone, when Adam went down to start the clean up process (thank you, Ad) the water backed up....again. So yeah, another plumber came out and dealt with that problem and then when Adam got home from work he started operation clean up. Poor guy has been at it for hours, sweeping up sewage remains, garbage, etc. Now its all "cleaned out" and he is hosing it down. Once it dries his friend will come over and spray the anti-bacterial chemicals and finish the restoration process and we should be all good to go. Oh, and we have another plumber coming tomorrow to determine if we need a whole new hot water heater or if ours can still work but with some fixes (thankfully we still have hot water on the third floor so we can all still shower w/out too much trouble). So, there's that...a long clean up process, multiple folks out to determine this and that, and our house is in total disarray. I generally feel fairly optimistic but mainly I feel like my house needs a big ol' bath.
My bed and couch were delivered yesterday! Who hoo! I didn't even unwrap the couch b/c I didn't want it exposed to the nastiness that is my house right now, so I have no clue if I like it or not just yet. However, I did notice that a small piece of wood from one of the legs broke off...awesome. The bed looks great, it just doesn't have a mattress in it so, there the empty frame sits in the master bedroom. B/c of that, Adam and I slept in the guest bedroom last night for the first time (and to all of you potential guests out there, its the coldest room of the house ~lucky you!).
It has been a crazy month and an even crazier week. I am (almost) literally dying for some "normal" around here and hope that in the next weeks it will be coming. I really would love to share some photos of the house, life here in Texas, and just my usual day to day stuff with you all but I'm sure you understand that will have to wait. I could go downstairs and take a picture of Adam w/ his sewage covered boots and hygiene mask on, but that wouldn't be very nice of me now would it? :) I'll just leave you with the mental picture (again, THANK YOU ADAM!). Okay folks, more later, as always, any prayers you want to send our way -we'll take! xo