Rain drops falling on the hubby's head....

Well we had a storm up here like 2 weeks ago. It was extremely windy and part of my roof decided to fly away. We got a quote for a new roof and decided to see what the home owners insurance would pay for. The day after getting the quote - a torrential rain storm started for 3 days and flooded my house.

The attic - which the hubby was working on getting set up as a bedroom for us. The walls he put up = ruined.

The living room - where I was content to sleep with baby bassinet for the first few weeks when I get home from the hospital until said attic room is completed = giant holes in the ceiling from water damage that need to be fixed before I can stay there.

People ask, can you just stay in your bedroom, unfortunately - no. The bedroom was cleared out to make room for baby's room and all of his stuff was pilled in on top of our bed.

Not to mention the flooded basement, broken stove and countless other things that went wrong over the course of this lovely storm.

The poor hubby has been working so hard on that attic room - now he needs to shift focus to fixing the living room. Thankfully we are having a new roof put on this weekend and then he can get back to work on getting the living room situated.

The giant downside to all this - we need to clean out our home equity line to pay for the roof. It is another 6,300 we never budgeted for. I am in a bit of a panic trying to get all the money lined up and will need to go back to work 5/3 instead of the 5/10 as I planned. I am sure it will all work out - but with the $15 k we went into debt to deal with me on bed rest - it is so much additional stress. Grrr..... at least after this weekend we will once again have a roof for this kid's head!

The good news is I will be induced 4/1 or 4/2 if not sooner :) Only 2 more baby free weekends (which of course motivates the hubby to no end - unfortunately for him the money is not there to do more work :/ ). Today will be a date day :) He is coming up to the hospital this afternoon and we are getting lunch and watching The Time Traveler's Wife on the hospital movie channel. I love the book so it will be nice to eat and watch a movie with him like normal times :)

So while we have been so lost in our financial despair - we have again been reminded that things can always be worse. Our friend is a sweet 18 year old who is expecting his first baby this summer. He is hard working, going to school and just trying to do right by life. His head is on tighter than I was at 18 that's for sure. So he is mentally gearing up for baby and working hard. He just got he news this weekend his father has less than 1 year to live with terminal cancer. Not only is this news hard to take because of what it is - but also he lives with his dad. Poor kid's whole life is being turned upside down right now and my heart is breaking for him. That's a lot to handle going on at life at any age - never mind 18 with so much going on. Makes us feel awful for complaining about money.

HOSPITAL BED REST DAY 24 - 15 OR 16 DAYS UNTIL INDUCTION!!!!