This past Thursday I was in the kitchen cleaning up from breakfast when I looked out the window to discover city work trucks setting up outside my house. The neighbors have had a leaking pipe for the last 2 weeks so I just assumed the workers were here to fix that and thought nothing more of it. A little while later the boys and I went out for the morning. Well….when we returned home we found out that the shut off for the neighbors leaking pipe is in our drive way and the men had our whole drive way blocked off and were digging up part of it. They dug about a 4’x3′ hole that was about 6 feet deep so they could disconnect a pipe.

Setup.

What we arrived home to.

So after a hard days work they back filled the hole and went home. A short time later I discovered that I had no water and no workers. So I call the after hours number and they sent someone out to try and fix the problem. After a little while the new worker discovered that the wrong line had been disconnected. So the workers would have to return the next day to fix the problem. So I was left for a night with no running water at supper time and two toddlers. (Not fun.)

The next day (Friday) the men returned and dug up the hole again and reconnected the pipe and once again. Then they dug another hole to disconnect the right pipe. So we ended up with 2 big holes in our driveway.

Attempt number2.

After reconnecting the pipe I turned on the water to discover…

We had only a trickle of water and after a few moments of it running it sputtered and stopped and once again we had no water. So I let the work men know and they were a little bit confused. So they had to have a plumber come out to check out or water meter. It turns out dirt got in to the open line and had clogged the meter. The plumber had to replace the meter.

Yeah!

And after approximately 30 hours we once again had water. Yeah! Until we lived a day with out running water I never realized how much I use it or how much we take it for granted. I am so glad it is running again.

My new phone.

This is awesome and will hopefully make it easier to actually do blogs on a regular basis. I am now able to blog from my phone.

I love my new phone and I am always learning more about it and what it can do.

I can’t explain why but all of my “Beginnings” blogs have been writen at the end of the day. I have tried a few times to blog early in the day but I just find that I can’t settle in to write on till late at night. So it would appear that all my beginnings are in the end. I find in the evening that blogging gives my mind a chance to unwind and to filter through the things happening in my life. I don’t always write about them but it gives me a chance to think them through. My blogs are often not very interesting to strangers I am sure what they are deffinately a great sorce of stress release for me. Over the last few months I have really come to love blogging even if just for myself. To those that do read these, thank you and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

Today I went for an ultrasound. Unfortunately Rob was unable to go and find out with me what the gender of the baby was. So we invited his parents over supper. To make announcing the gender of the baby special I had gone to the bakery and order a cake with the gender written on it.

The doctor is 70% sure.

I love my husband! Rob just bought me a Wii and a Wii fit!!! I can’t wait to play.

Tonight we are watching  a few movies while waiting to see in the new year. The first movie was called Hanna. It was okay. The direction was good and the story was okay. The second movie which we’re still watching is called Witch Craft 13. Wow. It is one of the worst movies I think I’ve ever seen. The acting is absolutely horrible. The story sucks.  I sit here writing this and wondering why I keep watching it. Oh well. At least all of 2012’s movies will be better. I mean they couldn’t be any worse. Or could they? Only time will tell.