First of all, we bought a house! We couldn't resist the space and potential (and price!) so we are now the proud owners of 2 houses!
I know that y'all are loving the orange color and desert landscaping, but it's gotta go!
Brock started tiling our first house (aka small house) and everything was a mess over there. No kitchen, laundry room, etc. The bathroom was ripped out of the big house because of disgustingness, but we decided that we would rather go back and forth to the small house for showers rather than go without a kitchen and laundry room a day longer. So we moved over to the big house only to find out that our half bathroom there (our only toilet) had problems. There was a crack in the drainage pipe...or so we thought. Brock ripped out the wall to discover a 3 inch gap in the drainage pipe!!!! Yuck! So for quite a number of days I would wake up in the morning and wait until my kids were fed and dressed before I could go over to the small house to use the toilet! Thank goodness during this time my parents were out of town and we were able to use one of their cars.
Now we have a working toilet at the big house and the drainage pipe is fixed thanks to Brock and other family! Thank you!
Back to my story... We were excited to be able to do laundry at our big house. It was actually the first thing we moved over (the washer and dryer). Well, turns out that somehow in the move over something broke or wiggled loose so the washing machine does not work!!! I was doing laundry and noticed that it was leaking under the washer. I pulled the washer out to see what it was only to pop off the drain pipe which caused water to spew everywhere! Mom was in the living room shampooing the carpets and Brek was with me as I was screaming my head off for mom to come help me! Poor girl may be traumatized by that for a while.
Anyway. We have been without a washer and dryer until just this Saturday when we were able to get a relative's. Hurray for washers and dryers! And of course toilets!!!!
Our plan now is to finish remodeling the small house and rent it out. Oh yes, forgot to mention that the big house has a beauty parlor on the back corner which is rented out. So that pretty much pays for our mortgage on the big house!
Brock has been super busy with school and football (more to come on that) so he has not had much time to remodel, and my children think that taking naps at the same time is a terrible idea so I can't get much done here. So we are kind of at a stand still. Little by little though. Contrary to all of my moanings and groanings, we feel extremely blessed for all that we have!
