Big weekend spent bogging out Abby's room. Quite a liberating thing purging and packing things away. The reason for this is the company is redoing the flooring in Abby and our room.

Now lets backtrack to December and to witching hour when I was multitasking, as we do, I put the bath on, began cooking tea, tidied up toys from the floor ready to vac and mop the floor while the kids were outside playing with sam and prepared pjs for the kids. I remember going outside and getting distracted by what the kids were doing, perhaps even joining in and playing for a minute! Walking through the house to get the mop ready I remember hearing a noise like a waterfall, looking down the hall and seeing a river! Oh.my.goodness I'd left the bath water on! a towel was being the bath mat :: OVER the drain hole! NOOOOOOO! Bad bad time of day for this to happen! And to make it worse, I'd done this 4 years earlier, 2 weeks into living here. I knew what I would find as I walked into Abby's room... Wet soggy carpet! It seeps through the joins in the tiles through the wall and runs almond the concrete and underlay and sometimes soaking through to the carpet. The worst kind. And this time, no chance of soaking it up. Add to that 35 degree days and I was envisioning mouldy carpet. So as you do, I went into salvage mode and quickly scooped up everything off the floor (there was a lot!) moved the dollhouse out (before it sucked up the water and was ruined) and all other furniture except her bed. It had even run out the door, down the hallway and into the linen cupboard! Thankfully no damage except the carpet.

So, the reason for the new flooring? Manky carpet (which they pulled up) and concrete floors for four months. And for good measure, they are taking out the Lino and reflooring out room. Nice but oh my gosh, inconvenient 3 days before we go away for easter! And considering we are likely to be moving in a couple of months, I would've been happy just for Abby's room. Our room adds an element of annoyance as its really 2 rooms, ours and Matilda's and therefore it's rebedding milly for a couple of days.

Looking forward to flash new floors and two days of noisey workers and a big mess, out of routine kids and nowhere to sleep M and J for their day naps!