Well October hasn’t been the best month over here… We’ve been sick, the kids have been sick, and the house hasn’t been on it’s best behavior.

It all started with an early October cold snap. We were getting ready to turn on the heater for the first time this year, and it kicked on, but it didn’t work. No hot air… We called a few places, got a crazy estimate, and then decided to get space heaters, and wait out the cold.

The space heaters worked well, but the kiddos were still not too happy without the heater. We finally got in touch with the awesome repair-man who worked on our heater a few years ago.

We were all happy to have the heater fixed, and he didn’t charge us an arm and a leg. Thank goodness for a very kind repair-man.I baked him some chocolate chip cookies to say thanks.

On to the next troublesome issue…

The downstairs plumbing is on the fritz. The washer was backing up into the shower, and the sink too. We got out the auger and the snake. I went out for drain cleaner, we were hoping it was just a clog.

We called the plumber, and he brought out the giant auger.

He found roots in the line.

It looks like we have some big repairs in our future. Ugh, what a month.