Operation Clean the Sick House---UNSUCCESSFUL

(My messy living room)

Since I was laying on my death bed Monday and then on Tuesday Mike joined me, our house was a disaster. Yesterday I finally had enough energy to tackle some of the cleaning. I really surprised myself at how much I could actually accomplish while I was still pretty sick. I got the living room cleaned and vacuumed, the dishes all done and put away, the kid's room tidied, about five or six loads of laundry cleaned and folded and yes, I even managed to put new sheets and pillow cased on our bed. After all the cleaning, I kind of crashed. I was too tired to stand and make dinner, so Mike had to bring something home for us. Even though I bailed on making dinner, I felt pretty good about all that I was able to accomplish.

(My messy kitchen--I know, who takes a picture of their messy house and then posts it on the internet?? I guess I'm a crazy person or looking for sympathy.)

So now for the not-so-good part. At around 5pm Jordan started feeling sick. By 6pm she was in bed with a fever. At 8pm I took Kya up to bed. As I walked down the stairs, I heard water rushing and wondered what the heck was going on. Water was gushing out from under the bathroom door all over my carpet. I opened to door only to find about 4 inches of water covering the floor and spilling out into the hallway. Oh my gosh, how do two sick people clean up something like that?! What a nightmare. We scooped up as much water as we could, mopped the rest and then attempted to dry the carpet. So yeah, now I have ten loads of towels to wash and dry, the repair men have been here all afternoon and still haven't fixed the toilet (oh, did I mention it was our toilet that flooded the bathroom all on it's own, without anyone even using it), and my carpet is probably completely ruined (we'll see if it starts stinking in a few days).

What I thought was such a successful, productive day, turned out to be even more work than I could imagine.

*Okay, the repair men just left (6:15pm). They put in a new toilet and brought us a big blower to help dry our carpet.