Hey Mom, I need to show you something," Alex says rather nonchalantly. As I'm sitting in the middle of my torn apart kitchen painting the stupid cupboards ....
"There's like a bubble thing in the ceiling, it's been there for awhile"
That bubble was a rather large bulging balloon of water, leaking from the upstairs bathroom into the downstairs bathroom ...
Grant rips down the sagging, saturated drywall.....
He quickly discovers, it's not a plumbing issue, but this brilliant, architectural marvel, the window in our shower (there's also a gigantic mirror on the ceiling, but whatever ).....
That window is no longer, if ever it was, water tight....
"Oh, It's just a little drywall and we'll silicone the window for now" Grant says after surveying the mess downstairs.....
A minute later Dallyn's sweeping up the mess and I'm back painting and Grant's fixing the window....
No big deal.
That's the one thing I'm actually grateful for, normal problems, the kind of problems that are more hassle, than heartache, the ones we can fix.
Perspective is a beautiful thing...
There are times, especially with my sweetheart's illness, that we long for normal problems, you know the kind everybody has and understands....
So thank you, normal problems, and thank you for having to reno my two hideous bathrooms, sooner than later ;)
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