What's the saying...

You never know what you've got til it's gone! I got that lesson all around today. First, J had training this morning which meant I had to get up and get all 4 kids ready and get them to school. When J takes the kids to school he just takes the two school aged kids, who can dress and feed themselves. He rolls out of bed 15 minutes before they need to leave. I couldn't do that this morning. Lesson one: appreciate your husband being home in the mornings more. I survived getting the kids to school, picking up something from my mom-in-law and paying a bill only to come home to a flooded street and a bunch of city workers. Get out of the van and find out I can't park in my driveway because a pipe broke at the end of my driveway. Move the van and get the kids in the house. Peanut poops and I change her diaper and go to wash my hands. You see where this is going, don't you? We had no water. I'm thinking great I didn't shower before I took the kids to school, I'm glad I brushed my teeth! I go outside to see how long the water will be off. They told me about 4 hours. Second lesson: I use water a LOT throughout the day. I think I tried to wash my hands at least 20 times in that 4 hours if not more. Around the 3 1/2 hour mark both the boys had to poop at the same time, one in each bathroom. No water = no flushing the stink. I kept my eye on the work going on outside and when I thought they were done I ran out to see if we had water so I could flush those toilets. Once the water was on I got a pot of water for the dinner I was making, just in case. Boiled the eggs I was planning on doing tonight. We had water for about 2 hours when I got a knock on the door, the guy told me that another pipe broke on our street and they were going to be turning the water off again in about 3 hours. At this point I still hadn't showered. I dropped everything and got in the shower. Of course, it was more like a 4 hour time frame but we were happy to have the water the extra hour. The one thing I don't get is why my 2 year old usually only poops once a day decides his bowels need to be emptied twice and during the time we have no water!