Down the rabbit hole

Because we don’t like for life to be too easy, and we are insane, we are moving this week. Yes, with me recovering from surgery, and us having both a four-week-old infant who eats nonstop at all hours and and a 3-year-old who appears to be in advance training for her high school debate team, we thought it would be as good a time as any to pack all our worldly possessions and haul them across town.
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Fix our wonky floor

We’re moving forward—slowly but surely—with fixing up our new old house. (New to us, built in ’52.) But we’ve hit a snag when it comes to the kitchen floor.

The home inspection indicated water damage and likely rotted sub-floor around the sink and dishwasher. This wasn’t exactly a newsflash. Construction-ignorant as I am, I knew kitchen floors shouldn’t have peaks and valleys. But the inspector didn’t seem to think this was a huge deal. He recommended hiring a qualified contractor to pull up the existing floor and repair the sub-floor. Sounded OK to us. We even thought we’d have new flooring installed while we were at it. It’s 200 square feet. How big a deal could it be?

Ha. Haha. Hahaha..

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