01.28.14.

I know, I know, I’ve dropped the ball on my photo-a-day this week. But I have a good excuse. Our (only) bathroom has been incapacitated since Friday morning. So we’ve been nomads, wandering to and fro throughout Columbia, searching for a place to go potty.

David and I joked that we’re real homeowners now. All those dreams about a kitchen remodel or adding a second bathroom? Well, turns out our first major expense renovation is one no one will ever see: all new plumbing under the house.

I’m a planner, and I had big plans for this weekend and week. But they were all thrown out the window and I was left trying to surrender those plans with a good attitude (which I did not always succeed at doing). So my floors weren’t damp-mopped and my closets didn’t get organized.

But what did get done?

– An unexpected sleepover at Kenny and Shari’s, and some much-needed catch up time with my sister-in-law (who made me gluten-free cookies to cheer me up).

– an invitation to one of our church’s life group hang-outs because we needed to eat dinner on Sunday night

– two days spent in the home of a brand new family in our church, the Burkhalters, and a sweet friendship begun

– texts and phone calls from friends offering to help us

– I finished the last of the Harry Potter series in the long hours waiting on the plumber

– our next-door neighbor called and begged us to come use her toilet last night, so the kids and I sat and had our first real conversation with her as we joked “There’s nothing to break the ice to bringing your kid over to take a #2.” Another new friend.

– we have a great plumber, whom I will forever be devoted to because he stayed and worked at our house until 9 last night so we could move back home.

– our bathroom was such a wreck from having the toilet taken out and re-installed that I scrubbed it from top to bottom at 9 pm

So there you have it. It’s been a productive week after all. And I woke up this morning, in my own bed, to a white world of snow outside.