Monday Morning Coffee

Happy Monday, my friends! How was your weekend? I hope it was happy, fun, quiet, or cozy, whatever you hoped it would be. I'd like to tell you our weekend was uneventful and cozy, and that would be true. Sort of. This may help.

This is what one corner of my bedroom should look like on any random summer afternoon.

Aaaannnnd, this is what it looks like now.

Yep. Lovely, right? 

So, yesterday morning, I was making my bed, and right before I placed the last pillow and smoothed the last wrinkle, I felt something wet. And squishy. And wet. And despite all the wishful thinking I could muster, I soon realized that something was water coming from a place you don't want water to be. The carpet. We discovered that a hose hookup on the deck right outside the window is apparently leaking. Luckily, we caught it before it could do too much damage, and while it looks distressing and depressing, it could have been much worse.

And I would know. Water damage is our thing. We have had a pipe burst in a finished basement in one house, a basement flooded twice in another, and a lovely bathroom pipe burst in the ceiling of the kitchen in another. Through the years, I have learned to deal with these unfortunate situations differently. I realize now that as inconvenient and stressful as they may be, I am dealing with something fixable and within my control. Many other things are much worse. 

Would I prefer not to have the carpet ripped up and a hole cut in my drywall today? Absolutely. Am I aware that some people are waking up today in much worse conditions and with much more distressing things on their minds? Yes. So, there you go, my friends. It isn't always sunshine and butterflies around here. Sharing the good and the not-so-good is reality. And before you think I was all Pollyanna about this, please know I had a moment yesterday. And then I grabbed some towels and got to work. 

Have a lovely Monday, my friends. Thanks for visiting!

Billie Jo