Babies Make Four: When Things Are Just Going All Wrong

Ugh. I know I've posted a ton on Facebook about our issues with our plumbing issues and we're still dealing with it today. I'm not sure if it's the rain that makes all this mess worse or what, but today we not only had water in our basement, but now sewage and toilet paper as well. Fabulous.

I don't know why the other plumbers just didn't quite feel like getting to the bottom of what was going on in our house, but I called back the folks that pumped our septic tank on Friday, as they deal with plumbing and septic issues. Surprisingly, they were at our house within an hour and a half on a holiday. Turns out that (thankfully) we don't have a busted pipe going from the house to the septic tank, but we do have a pipe that dips down and forms a pool so when it gets clogged, it backs up into the house. The new plumbers we used today cut down through all that mess and cleared the clog, but to fix the problem permanently we're looking at some big renovations (talking busting out concrete, re-doing the plumbing, etc...) He said that what they did today will temporarily fix the issues, but it could last us another 4 years or another 4 months, there's just no way to know.

I'm just over it. I don't think I've ever felt so danged irritated with any situation the way I feel with this. There is no easy or inexpensive fix so we'll just have to buckle down and do it. Ah, home ownership.

PS our kids have been wild this weekend, and they're all sick. Charlie has some sort of cold and her nose is like a faucet and she coughs all the time. Dillon has the same thing, now, so it's really just not been our week.

It really all sounds like first world problems. "Oh man, my indoor plumbing is backing up" or "We all have sniffly noses." In the grand scheme of things, it's really not a big deal, but it feels like a big deal and I think Dillon and I both just feel beaten down a little. Luke's new favorite show is the Roseanne reboot and last week's issue they had a flooded basement and no money to fix the huge costs, and I always wonder how they just seem to laugh it off (because, ya know, it's a tv show)... but then Dan got so frustrated that he took a crowbar and beat in a door in their basement. He talked about how he worked so hard and still couldn't get everything done that he needed and it was some sort of validation, like, yeah, other people get it, too. So, for right now, we hold out for the rain to stop. We wait on yet another estimate from a plumber, and we move one step in front of another, as annoying as it may be, we'll get through it.

While most of the weekend was spent stressing about our sewage needs, we did have our first pool day and some good family time. A few pictures below!

How most of the weekend was spent. She has a runny nose, teeth coming in and is just miserable in general. Poor baby.

Luke has about another 2 months of pre-school. He'll spend the last month before kindergarten with my mom and dad and they're going to do some fun pool days and running around.