too good to last

all good things must come to an end, rich's vacation is no exception. he still has a few weeks left of comp time to take but we're going to wait until the holidays so he can be home when the kids are home from school. i'm so excited for how long their christmas break is this year! ethan was not happy about letting him go, when i told him to, "say bye to papa, he has to go to work", i got a broken up little voice saying, "bye papa", it was the saddest dang thing you ever heard. then he watched him pull out of the drive way from our big living room window with these puppy eyes - poor kid, first the kids go back to school and now dad goes back to work. we have all enjoyed having rich home this past two weeks. we didn't really do a ton, we spent several days in our pjs watching movies and playing play dough with ethan. i did talk him into a few little trips out of the house though, like grocery shopping, the children's tree house museum in ogden - we love that place... and to gardner village for tuesday play date with the cousins......and i started cooking dinners again, it was nice to sit down as a whole family to the table.

besides being ethan's playmate and my sanity base, it was really bad timing for rich to head back to work. a few minutes after he left i noticed a giant puddle of water on the kitchen floor and big "bubbles" of water all down one of the walls! crap! long story short, phil ripped out my kitchen cabinets and dug a big hole in the ceiling to find a persistant leak in the copper pipes above. the ceiling is ruined and perhaps a wall or two but everything else should dry-out. phil to the rescue...again. i guess this is good news, but really i thought maybe it was my chance for a new kitchen, oh well. i knew there was a reason i had procrastinated painting the cabinets...