The wet adventures of 2017
My last post was over a year ago and I’m a bit ashamed of myself for that. First of all, we welcomed our baby girl, Sloane on July 25, 2017! The year 2017 was definitely the craziest year and here’s a summary of what happened:
* We spontaneously decided to renovate our bathroom and kitchen. Renovations for our bathroom started in early March and lasted 3 weeks. A few days later, the kitchen renovation started which was completed at the end of May. It was quite difficult living in our 750 sq ft, one floor condo but it looks amazing now and we were able to maximize spaces for storage.
* Thursday, July 20, 2017 was a game changer. A burst pipe in the suite upstairs flooded the owner’s condo unit including ours and damaged the ceiling and bathroom in the suite below us. Being 38 weeks pregnant with no place to move to until Sunday night, we had to stay in our condo for the weekend with 4 dehumidifiers and fans blowing at all hours of the day and night. It was loud, 40°C hot and we had to sleep out on our patio for a couple nights, it was sweat drenching hot. We were going to be out of our home for 2-3 months or longer— packing for summer, fall, a new baby, toddler, dog, and ourselves was no easy task.
* We moved out of our home and the next day, baby girl Sloane was born! (What timing right?)
* From the end of July until the end of September, we moved 3 times. Long story short (will include the details in another post when I decide to write it up), a few days after moving back home, an unresolved leak showed up in the bathroom and a portion of our bathroom ceiling was ripped out to repair the leak. There was a large hole in our bathroom ceiling for over a month.
* Two weeks after our bathroom ceiling was repaired, I walked past our kitchen when I heard a drip noise in the walls. To my horror, there was brown water coming from our outlet and soaking everything in its path on the counter. The dishwasher in the suite above had a leak and all the yummy dirty water from the dishwasher was coming out of our wall.
* For Christmas, we went back to Calgary and Canmore where we packed/unpacked 5 times in the couple weeks we were there. We didn’t have one place to stay for the entire trip which resulted in multiple packs.
A few things:
* We are glad to be home
* We highly recommend home insurance because we would’ve been so screwed if we didn’t have full coverage
* This has helped my journey in minimalism
* We are staying home for Christmas next year
* No matter where we lived, we had each other and that is the most important part of everything