MOTHER/DAUGHTER DAY

Today there was no school for Mimi due to the fact that it is staff developement day. Mom decided that she would make it into a mother/daughter day. Therefore since we are now in the 'po' house this month, mom tried to come up with ideas of things that we could do on a dime. First we slept in (at least mom did, Mimi played on the computer), had a late breakfast when Mimi noticed that there was a leak in our downstair guest bathroom. Sure enough there was a huge puddle so the plumber had to come out and fix the leak. There goes our day mom thought. A while back, mom had noticed a stain on the ceiling and made mention of it to dad. He noticed it too. Then things got rather crazy busy around the Putney household and dad forgot all about it until last Friday when mom told him to go into the bathroom and take a look at the ceiling. Something to the effect of "Oh my god!" came out of his mouth. The ceiling plaster to where the stain was broke through. Dad called the plumber and he came out to the house on Monday morning and sure enough the leak was due to the shower in the master bathroom upstairs. Apparently there was work done to the shower prior to our moving in last year June and the seal that was used was made of plastic instead of brass therefore it broke. This time the plumber put in a brass seal but did not put it in tight, that is why we had the leak again today. So again the plumber had to come out and fix our leak. I kind of feel like the people in the movie "The Money Pit". The whole process cost us $465.00 and that is not to mention that we still have to get the dry wall done to where a nice size hole was drilled into the ceiling. Mom nearly had to give dad CPR when he found out how much it all cost. This is right after coming back from Virginia where Mimi had a parking lot accident. We had gone back to Joe's house to give Mari her travel pillow that she forgot in our car. Mimi, who is in the process of learning to open doors carefully, opened her door not so carefully at the time whacked the car that was parked next to us and put a small dent into it. Fortunately for us we knew the person who owned the car. The owner turned out to be one of Mari's friends by the name of Ryan. Justine (Ryan's fiance and Mari's best friend) said that we did not need to pay for it. Both mom and dad felt real bad about it and felt that it was our responsibility so we did give them a check to get it fixed. Blake called this afternoon and so Mimi is over there now. Poor, poor mom, she got dropped like a hot potatoe. So much for our mother/daughter day. We will definitely make up for it though on Sunday maybe.