My Summer Thus Far (part 2)

I know that these posts are a little out of order for you, but if you haven't read part one, then skip below to the post directly under this one and read it first.

Let's see.....I left off with "Personally, I am about to have a nervous breakdown. Then my phone rings......."

Well, my phone rang and it was Carlton on the other end....

C - "Is this not a house key on your spare set?"
M - "It is suppose to be....WHY?"(Hysteria is about to set in....)
C - "It is NOT working!"
M - "Did you lock all the doors?"
C - "YES, I locked all the doors. Then you called and I was going back in and this key does not work!"
M - "NO WAY!!" (other mothers around saying..."it's going to be okay!")
C - "How much time do I have?"
M - "Well, they are still playing all the pre-show music. Then they have production, and one woman sings before the girls go on."
C - "HOW MUCH TIME!!"
M - "About 20 minutes!!!"
C - "I am breaking the window then! BYE!"

Me....I hung up the phone and looked at those other mothers and said..."He's BREAKING a window! Oh my gosh....he is going to be so mad!"

Rachel looked at me and said, "You okay Mommy?"
Immediately my whole demeanor changed and I looked right at her and told her that Mommy was okay, and everything would be just fine. Then she skipped off to play with the girls!

About 3 minutes later Carlton calls and says...."How much time??" I told him that Dorthy was just meeting up with the Scarecrow, Tin Man and the Lion (as if you couldn't guess, production was a mini version of the Wizzard of Oz) then I told him he had about 15 minutes MAX. To which he replied...."I just broke a double paned window....I BETTER make it on time for her to dance!"

Panic sat in once again for I knew that he had our son in the car and was breaking ALL kinds of traffic laws on the way. I told him to call me once he got to the street the theater was on and I would run out and get the costume. SO when he called, I ran, and ran, and ran....then I ran back in, got to Rachel and one of the other mothers had already unbuttoned her cover up. The woman was singing her song, we slipped Rachel in her costume, snapped the back, the girls walked backstage, I met Carlton and Timothy in the hall, we stepped in the theater and the Baby Ballet class walked out on stage!

NOW tell me he doesn't love his daughter and wouldn't do anything for her! That is one incredible man I have. However, he then had to listen to a million questions from Timothy who was trying to figure out why he was driving like a maniac....because you see, we live at least 15 minutes from the theater!

Whew......what a night!!!!

Well, $234.64 and one week later, the glass has been fixed!

Now for another part of our summer.....let's see....oh yeah, we finally got a fence put up around the back yard. Now the kids will be wanting another dog. They have wanted one for some time now, but we have put it off because our last one, Pongo, a Dalmatian, was an indoor dog....but....we have decided that we don't want another indoor canine in the family, so we have been telling the kids that we needed a fence first. (I'll let you know when the dog comes!)

And now for the best part of all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rachel was in her room the other night and yelled...."Mommy, come look at my crack!" Did your eyes just get big and your jaw drop to the floor?? Because when I heard those words, mine did! As I got up and walked to her room I thought, "We have NEVER called it that, where is that coming from!" When I walked in, she pointed to the wall above her bathroom door and said, "See it, up there!" And sure enough there was a crack in the sheet rock that was about 2 1/2 feet long from the corner of the bathroom door on up in an angle. Immediately I knew what we were looking at......the foundation. SO I called Carlton in the room and started looking around the other doors and windows, and sure enough there were other cracks. Some big and some small, but lots of them. So we walked into Timothy's room (they share a Jack-n-Jill bathroom) and sure enough, there were cracks in his wall too! Carlton said he noticed the doors were harder to shut the other day. Well on this night, the two doors in his room would NOT shut!

So the next morning I called a slew of foundation repair companies, and over the next several days they all came out, shared their two cents, and showed us how much it would cost us to fix our problem. The problem being the corner of the house that Timothy's room is in, has "sunk" a whole 2 inches! Well, the cost ranges anywhere from $1850 to $5765. The cheaper cost was using the most simple way to fix the problem but has no warranty to guarantee the work. The most expensive amount came from Olshan (the leader in foundation repair) and it includes a lifetime warranty that can be transferred to a new owner if/when we sell the home. It also included coming INSIDE the house and drilling holes in the floors of the kids rooms. (Not something I am totally thrilled about, but then again I am not thrilled about the whole situation anyway!)

We will probably go with Olshan, but please make it a matter of prayer. There is an older gentleman in our church that was pretty set on us going with a man's company that he knows. And although he knows him, I checked him out with our friends from the Better Business Bureau and they showed several complaints filled against him (the older man's friend that is) SO we just don't want to take the risk. We have had too many problems with this house as it is and don't want to do anything to "risky".

Well, that's it so far....crazy summer huh?? The kids and I are at my parents until early Sunday morning. We will get up then and head on home. Carlton and the youth will be coming home Sunday evening late and I want to get home before he does.

Hope you summer has been better than ours thus far! :)