Well, our kitchen is a disaster area right now. Our refrigerator is at least 20 years old...I bought this house from my best friend's dad who left this refrigerator for us. I ate "many a" pizza pocket out of this refrigerator when I was at least a Sophomore in high school so we knew it didn't have many miles left on it. Anyway, we knew we were going to put tile in the kitchen once the refrig. died. A few months ago we realized that the kitchen floor was starting to "bubble" and realized the refrigerator had been slowly leaking for awhile. Then the garbage compactor stopped working, then the dishwasher stopped working, the light under the microwave burned out, etc.... We used industrial fans for 3 days to dry the sub floor...it sounded like a jet plane was landing in the house :) Long story short-we had to rip the entire kitchen floor up. It was layers of linoleum that had to be scraped off in little pieces...ughhh! Then the refrigerator stopped working all together so everything had to be thrown away. We have been living without a refrig. for a week now and it's not fun!!! We have to finish the floor before we go get another so hopefully this weekend will be the END of the construction. I think I've learned my lesson about letting repairs go for a few weeks! We also ripped the carpet and wallpaper out of the sun room, re-painted and laid tile. Also during this, M1 got sick and was out of school for a few days. They say, "when it rains, it pours". Well, it's pouring at the Perry house right now. The blessing is that we at least have a house that needs repairs and the money to pay for all of them.
Well, our kitchen is a disaster area right now. Our refrigerator is at least 20 years old...I bought this house from my best friend's dad who left this refrigerator for us. I ate "many a" pizza pocket out of this refrigerator when I was at least a Sophomore in high school so we knew it didn't have many miles left on it. Anyway, we knew we were going to put tile in the kitchen once the refrig. died. A few months ago we realized that the kitchen floor was starting to "bubble" and realized the refrigerator had been slowly leaking for awhile. Then the garbage compactor stopped working, then the dishwasher stopped working, the light under the microwave burned out, etc.... We used industrial fans for 3 days to dry the sub floor...it sounded like a jet plane was landing in the house :) Long story short-we had to rip the entire kitchen floor up. It was layers of linoleum that had to be scraped off in little pieces...ughhh! Then the refrigerator stopped working all together so everything had to be thrown away. We have been living without a refrig. for a week now and it's not fun!!! We have to finish the floor before we go get another so hopefully this weekend will be the END of the construction. I think I've learned my lesson about letting repairs go for a few weeks! We also ripped the carpet and wallpaper out of the sun room, re-painted and laid tile. Also during this, M1 got sick and was out of school for a few days. They say, "when it rains, it pours". Well, it's pouring at the Perry house right now. The blessing is that we at least have a house that needs repairs and the money to pay for all of them. 
Oh my! I can't even imagine being without a fridge for a week! Sorry M was sick...hope she is feeling better. Sounds like you have been a busy mama! Your new job sounds like fun too. I would love to do something like that one of these days.
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