We own a small three bedroom in an older neighborhood, forty years old, needs some TLC for which we have a list of projects we are slowly chipping away at.

Life, apparently does not care for our list.

So after last summer and the season of the car repair, this summers theme was The Money Pit. We started off the summer a week into June with our outer storm door breaking and somehow taking the whole frame with it. Good news though, the frame was in pretty good condition for a forty year old house!

We headed into July and a series of bad storms that we were very grateful to come out of without any damage. Or so we thought…

Why yes, that is a branch speared into the side of the house. So while still grateful to not have down trees or anything worse, we did get to spend a week or so attempting to get a small hole in the side of our house fixed.

With all that behind us we turned to August and focused on getting the house ready for our homeschool adventures (more on that at a later date), when the youngest comes out of the downstairs bathroom to say something along the lines of, “There is a leak, just a small leak though so its ok.”

Which led to a day of plumbers who left us with new pipes and this present.

Ah the joy of home ownership!

-Kimberly