While he was wandering around the house getting ready for work this morning, Matt stepped in some water on the pantry floor. This is not so unusual in a household where there are a lot of people who spill things or track things in from outside (not to mention a construction crew coming in and out.) He changed his socks, and went off to work. A short time later, a kid came up to me and said, "Mom, what's all that water on the pantry floor?" This time, I went to investigate and found a rather large pool of water on the tile floor. I looked around the floor, thinking maybe a bottle of water had burst open, when I saw a drop of water fall from above.
I looked up to see the ceiling drywall bulging downward, dripping water, on the verge of breaking open. I had a quick panic attack, and then sent various kids scrambling to find buckets, flashlights, and towels. We poked a hole in the ceiling, and drained the water out into one of the waiting buckets before the whole ceiling collapsed. We pulled down a few more chunks of soggy drywall to try and see where all the water had come from.
Matt was called home from work, the plumber was called, and the leak was traced to the upstairs shower (which is now fixed.) In the midst of all the hullabaloo, I had the kids form a sort of 'bucket brigade' to rescue all of our pantry goods from the deluge from above. Now all our food is all over the family room floor, our pantry ceiling is in Hefty bags out in the garbage, and we have two stories of damp drywall to deal with (plus a BIG hole in the ceiling!)
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