What a mess!!

On Tuesday, November 27th I was sitting at the kitchen table looking over some things after the kids went to bed when I noticed a large puddle of water on the floor in front of the sink.  Rich and I assumed that the puddle was coming from the sink but we opened the doors under the sink and everything was totally dry.  We traced the puddle to water coming out of the cabinets along the side of the breakfast nook area and then noticed that there was mold forming in the cabinets and everything was wet.  Ugh!!!  This all lead then to a call to our homeowner's insurance the next day and then a restoration company coming out the following day.  They were able to trace the leak to a pipe running behind the cabinets with a 12 inch crack in it.  After 3 days of very loud fans drying everything out, then lots of demo, and our kitchen being under construction for 3 weeks we finally had it all fixed and back to normal.  They were able to save the boxes of the cabinets and the granite which saved us a lot of money and time so we were thankful for that and although we had to cancel our Army Navy party and our Christmas tree was not up as early as I hoped, but, it all worked out and we survived! The silver lining was that prior to Thanksgiving we had the master toilet overflow and it caused some water damage to the ceiling so they were able to tie both claims into the one and fix it all at once so at least that worked for our benefit!  We are hoping that this is our "welcome gift" in our new home and that we don't have to deal with anything else like this for a long time!!!  

The workers getting ready to seal off the breakfast nook of the kitchen so the blowers can dry everything out.  

Our master bedroom pulled apart for a few days so this could also be dried out due to the toilet leak.  

 This was our view for three days.  Made for an even louder household and things everywhere!! We just tried to stay out of the house as much as possible!

 They were able to take the sheet down but then the kitchen looked like this for what seemed like a very long time!!

 Getting closer to being done...

And, then finally on December 17th they were done!  I didn't get a picture of the final project since it looks exactly the same as it did before!!!  In a way it feels like such a waste of money since aesthetically we don't notice any difference but we understand, that as homeowners, unfortunately, projects don't always mean things that are visible. Almost 3 weeks of workers in and out of the house and everything feeling like it was turned upside down, especially over the holidays and over Joseph's birthday but we made it through and now are ready to really get in the Christmas spirit and feel like we can get settled!