today started out just fine (my mom slept over last night and spent the day with us), but it slowly unraveled into quite the nightmare. our kitchen sink clogged up, which caused me to call a plumber. the plumber came and fixed the sink, and i had them look at our toilet in the basement that also seemed to be clogged. after an hour of snaking the toilet and a resulting horrible stench in the house, the plumbers realized that there was nothing wrong with the toilet. instead, the sewer pump in our basement was full, and in turn overflowed because the GFI outlet that operates the pump had been tripped and no one knew it. argh!!!!!! i think i usually handle things pretty well when kevin is out of town, but this just about put me over the edge. thankfully i got a hold of a carpet cleaning company who came to our house "after hours" to sanitize the floor and clean the carpet. i was so upset about the basement that all i could think to do was bake chocolate chip cookies. funny, right? i figured that was a sure-fire way to distract my mind and make the kids happy. so in the midst of all the chaos, we baked. and it worked. those homemade chocolate chip cookies made us happy :)
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