New House Rule

OK. New house rule.
Only one room of the house may regurgitate its contents at a time.

A friend got a new fridge and Beloved agreed to take the old one off their hands. Great plan. So a really nice fridge was delivered yesterday. Beloved and our neighbor wrestled it inside and this morning we began the process of transferring all our cold edibles from the old large box to the new pretty one. However, in order to have room to accomplish this grand feat, the kitchen had to relinquish a good portion of its contents to the dining room and the living room. No problem. It’s just for a day or so at most, right?

Almost bedtime last night and DD4 calls out, “Mom, can you come look at this?” I answer the summons and she points to the ceiling in her room. “I don’t think it’s supposed to look like that,” she says. I look up and have to agree. Ceilings should be white and flat, not bulging and discolored. She summons her dad, who agrees that no, it should not look like that. However, there is nothing that any of us can do at the moment so we all go off to bed.

This morning I woke up thinking we should probably move her out of her room since there is no way to know how big this ceiling problem could be or how soon it may cave in. Well, as it turns out DD4 decided to move some of her stuff into another room last night - just in case. This seems particularly prudent since there is now a large crack in the ceiling that wasn’t there when I saw it last night. So, room # 2 is now tossing its contents all over the house. Into the office, the spare room, the main bathroom, the living room. Oh, my. And who knows how long this repair project will take.

Now the Christmas tree must come down early to make room for her computer so it's not ruined in the demolition process. Which is the equivalent of a third room ejecting its contents into the livingroom/dining room area.

I’m barricading my bedroom door.