Oh the hu-vanity!!!!

It's remodel time here at the ranch, friends. We all knew it was coming. Heck, our kitchen has been half done for a few years, but the hub couldn't help that he blew out his back and had major surgery. But history seems to be repeating itself once again and a bathroom crisis is interrupting the progress on the kitchen remodel. Last week as I stood in front of the washer in the basement, there was a Chinese water torture kind of situation going on down there. The source was found in the main floor bathroom. Nice to know that the leak in the basement didn't start until the base of the cheap vanity was so saturated it could hold no more. So brown, rusty water dripped down on my head or straight onto the clean clothes. Running a fan in said bathroom, after the leak was fixed, did only good on the surface, but the fear of a lurking moldy nightmare remains. This forced us to do one of the activities that children love during the summer, almost as much as a summer reading list: we went vanity shopping at Lowes/Home Depot. We understand that once the vanity is moved in the slightest the situation goes directly from curiosity to full on biohazard yellow tile removing hell. The need to have pieces parts in place is vital. I'm sure the entirety of our city and county heard the collective whine-groan coming from the mouths of the offspring, but we needed to look and had a short time to do it. The in laws were arriving in a few hours, so time was of the essence. I have discussed at length many times before now that I have no eye for design. Going into this with frustration and having children full of frustration made this an excellent experience. I broke up a few scraps and sent them to their corners...one sitting on a chair in wallpaper, one chose to sit on a display toilet and this one:




We had a great time. One for the family scrapbook, friends.

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