Beneath the Wraps

  All the flooring that we had put in had done less than two years ago has been to be replaced.   Once again – are you kidding me?   Just fix the kitchen not the entire flippin’ house.   But no.   Thus were we down to no useable kitchen but had three days possible that the five of us might have to share a toilet.   Oh, no.   That didn’t sit well. Initially the insurance company was going to issue a 28,000 dollar allowance to pay for temporary housing and food that would supposedly last four months.   Four months?   Are you kidding me?   The water damage wasn’t only the floor but ALL of our kitchen cabinets would have to be replaced as well.   What a nightmare. The insurance company talked Richard into staying in the house rather than use the money on temporary housing (which we had looked into and had come up with pricing) for the five of us (wait a minute – did I say that I had no intentions of sharing a bathroom?   Why coul...

                When we first looked at our house, I was thrilled with the large tub in the master bedroom.   Evidently I had not even looked at the shower. The shower in my mom's house was made of pink tiles.   There was a 4 to 5 inch lip that we could step over to be in the shower.   After daddy had his strokes, we put a plastic chair in the shower and invested in a shower hose. The hose split shortly after he had passed.   It hadn't seemed like a great investment.                 Because I can't always make the time for the luxuries of a bath (not to mention the many gallons of water)   I have taken more showers. For a while I was using the shower in Jenna's bathroom.   Her tub is more shallow than the master bath, but there is definitely more floor room in the tub than there is in the master shower.      ...