On Sunday morning Lydia came up and announced there was a big puddle in the basement. Abe was so tired that he just thanked her for telling us and said he’d check it out later. I thought maybe we should check it out sooner than that, so I went down and discovered our toilet gushing water. The basement was actively flooded and flooding.
I ran upstairs to tell Abe, and he came down and turned off the water main. Thank goodness it wasn’t sewage, but still, almost every part of the basement was soaked. Our ward was amazing. People lent us shop vacs and came over to help before church. Our neighbor, Meghan, came and stayed right next to me the WHOLE DAY and helped me pack up every single thing from the basement and move it to the garage. She is my hero and I will love her forever. She is an amazing human being.
After church some guys helped Abe move our heavy, heavy treadmill to the garage, thus completing the basement. At the beginning of the day it was packed with stuff, and now it is empty. Our wonderful ward friend, Moroni, is a contractor and will take care of our basement now that it is clean.
We have so much to be thankful for. We are so grateful it wasn’t sewage. We are grateful we have so many wonderful friends and neighbors to help us clean up and pack up our basement. We are grateful we have space in the garage to move things. We are grateful we get a fresh start at designing our basement. Honestly, even though it was hard to move everything, we mostly felt just SO GRATEFUL all day. The only thing I feel bad about is that we accidentally packed the remote to the TV somewhere and now we have to do all of this week with half of the house space and no TV. I guess we’ll be active!
Somehow in all the chaos, we managed to get this photo:
