Water, Water Everywhere

 Dad, there is poop still in the toilet, but I flushed it down.  What a kid, flushing someones poop down the toilet without complaining.  But this is where it all took a turn for the gross and not so nice as it did not flush down but flowed over.  For some reason I went to check and started to throw down towels, the good ones of course, before the water reached the vent.  The whole time in my head I heard my wife saying "don't use the good towels" like I could pause the water until I tracked down the old, not so good, towels. It was gross and disgusting, but nothing a good cleanup can't fix and I would have had it all dried up and said no more, except for Grandma who pulled out the Javex and actually scrub it down.  Now if this was not enough fun it also leak into the basement forcing me to empty my storage room and dry and clean everything that got wet.  By the way, do you have a fire safe?  Make certain it keeps water out as well, mine did not.  
 While I am cleaning up the storage room there are four kids upstairs yelling and screaming, sometimes at each other, and walking all over the laundry that I had just folded.  Now most mom's understand that once the laundry is folded anyone caught messing it up would require a lawyer to help avoid punishment, even a 5 year old.  Before I could lay any accusations Grandma stepped in again and managed to get dinner served giving me a little quiet to complete my task at hand.  Five minutes later someone hit someone and it was someone else's fault leading to another someone getting upset because it was to loud and he could not eat his dinner.  A quick plea for sanity from all the someones, a Scooby Doo movie and back at work I was, moving and cleaning.
 It turns out this was a blessing, poop from heaven if you will, as clearing out the storage room led to finding a much bigger problem.  Apparently when they build houses they do not have to use adhesive for drain pipes if they are hidden behind a wall or if it is time for a coffee break.  At the far end of my storage room there was more water throughout the insulation and on the floor coming from the washing machines drain pipe.  After cutting a hole in the drywall I discovered that one connection had come apart and there was no adhesive ever used.  Plumber, electrician, drywaller, painter and all of them knowledgeable as general contractors, these are the careers for my kids, at least for this week.  They will thank me someday.
  Plumbing is fixed both in the laundry room and toilet and the water damage is drying up so that I can fix that as well.  As for the kids mom came home made everything right in the land of Oz.  Yeah right, she fed them Popcorn chicken told them to watch the movie or off to bed they go.
 Just a typical day of excitement and to think I still have lunches and garbage to get ready.  The fun never stops.