Happy Thanksgiving!!

Doesn't this look nice! We're just getting ready to add the final touches and food to the table. What a nice, relaxing and wonderful dinner I put on...or so it seems. What you can't see in the picture is THIS...
That the kitchen table is on the carpet because if it was in it's usual place we would be getting wet. How many of YOU were serenaded be the sound of dripping water coming from your ceiling while you ate your Thanksgiving feast? We had such a treat.

We went on a bike ride just before dinner and I got into the house first and could hear running water and looked all around and found it coming from the ceiling!!! A nice waterfall (I love waterfalls but this was a little too much!!). A little one in our house went to the upstairs bathroom and washed her hands before leaving on our trip and used the sink that is always plugged up and left the water on (full blast). So we came home to a wet mess. Luckily it all puddled in one spot in the ceiling and so there wasn't water in the whole house just at this one little crack in the ceiling (where Grandpa is cleaning up - THANK YOU!!!). Thankfully none of our stuff was wet and Safeway was open and had a carpet cleaner we could use to get the water out of the carpet and so far the water damage seems minimal, all things considered.
It took awhile for the water to finally stop dripping but I decided the turkey was ready, the rolls were ready to be baked, kids were hungry and dinner must go on! It was a busy house with Daddy using the carpet cleaner, Grandpa mopping up, Grandma entertaining kids, me trying to empty bookshelves so we could move them out of the way so we could dry the carpet and all of us working on dinner. We forgot to make the stuffing and made a last minute decision to use instant potatoes to save time on a chaotic night but we survived, had a nice meal, things are drying and we'll all be happy to go to bed tonight (oh yea, and my wedding ring flew off my finger into the sink (I recovered it), the gas stove wouldn't light (Grandpa lit it), the light bulb blew out in the bathroom, my dessert didn't work but I'm going to bed and hope it's all good tomorrow).

As a side note - we don't think this is the first time it's happened! That sink has never worked (we now wished we had just shut off the water and we wish it had an overflow outlet!!!) and the bathtub has also always had drainage problems (they have to come fix it every few months - these problems have been happening since we first moved in). Where all the water was creating the waterfall there has always been a crack in the ceiling since we moved in and the paint on the wall looks a little funny. Now that the ceiling is wet we see evidence that the ceiling has been patched at the same part....I'm not surprised!!!)