11/14/2026
WE HAVE PULSE, WIFI, AND A WORKING PRINTER.
At this point, if you pitched the last month of our lives to a Hollywood writer, they would reject it for being completely unrealistic.
Let’s recap the highlight reel so far: brake lines failing while pulling a lift (stopped conveniently next to a church—thank You, Jesus), a refrigerator deciding cooling was optional, and a trip to the ER on enough Benadryl to sedate a grizzly bear. As it turns out, what doctors initially misdiagnosed as shingles and staph was actually the early stages of an acute reaction to hidden black mold at our previous home—something we are beyond grateful to have left completely behind us when we moved out. Then, right before Friday the 13th, my computer decided to flatline too.
And just when we thought we were out of the woods, our "charming" new-to-us older house decided to show off its vintage plumbing. Last night at 7 PM, Kaleb at All-American Sewer Services & More successfully blasted a dead animal out of the pipes under the house with zero flooding. We celebrated too soon—because this morning, some old unused pipes decided to stage a coup and gave us two indoor floods anyway.
Naturally, we called in reinforcements. Our pastor came through today to pray over us and our home, because after the month we have had, we need every single ounce of the Holy Spirit in this building we can get.
Here is the good news:
Hives and ER trips: Defeated. No Benadryl coma today.
Current indoor flood count: Zero.
New pipes: Scheduled for Tuesday. There is officially a light at the end of this very strange tunnel.
The printer: Actually printing without a fight.
Client files and estimates: 100% intact and safe.
Our own internal files: Sacrificed to the tech gods when the old computer gave up the ghost.
Full transparency: the computer wipe took a pile of our own behind-the-scenes work down with it, which is humbling—but the things that actually matter (your projects, quotes, and schedules) survived untouched.
Even with the indoor water park we accidentally opened this morning, we could not be happier to be out of our old house and away from that environment for good. Moving into an older home comes with a few kinks to work out, sure, but we have met some incredible local small businesses and even better people while sorting through them—and we would still take these old pipes and the people fixing them over our last place any day of the week.
To everyone who has checked on us, prayed for smoother waters, laughed at our "what on earth is happening now" month, and waited patiently while we survived all of this: thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Your grace kept us standing. To anyone we lost along the way because life hit us too hard this past month—we are genuinely sorry we could not move faster for you.
The new computer is up, the floors are dry, Sean is keeping the field moving, and the newly reopened Department of Office Operations (just me, finally awake) is working late tonight to get every single estimate and message caught up.
Now, if the universe could kindly stop submitting unapproved change orders to our personal lives, we are ready to get back to work.
—Victoria
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