Mud bath

We're officially back from vacation, and, although I have many wonderful pictures to post, they will have to wait until we settle back in and deal with our latest home disaster -- the mud bath. It appears our contractor left a hole in the wall of our basement where the old pipe used to be. The Chicagoland area was hit with a huuuge storm while we were on vacation and the mud just flowed on into our basement through the hole. 

Fortunately, my mother discovered the mud when she was over using my sewing machine. She alerted us to the problem, cleaned up the laundry room floor, and helped get a contractor over to plug the hole. 

Unfortunately, the damage is even worse than she initially thought. Jason started ripping up the carpet after work this evening and discovered that the mud went almost everywhere. It destroyed a bunch of Jason's art stuff and sketch books. It flowed into our storage room and ruined a box of Jason's childhood memorabilia. It also soaked through the box holding our wedding pictures. Thankfully, the pictures were sitting on plastic bubble wrap and don't appear to be damaged. 

What a pain in the rear end! The bright spot in all of this is that we get to officially celebrate Molly's 4th birthday tomorrow :) Happier news to come in posts later this week!

Laundry room floor

Hole in the wall -- behind the copper pipe