Out my window: It has actually been dreary and rainy this morning, but the sun just popped up over the mountain and from behind a cloud. I don't know how long that'll last but it is beautiful :)

Clothing myself in: Black yoga pants, blue striped long sleeved T, grey fleece and purple cabled hat.

Around the house: Well, we are undertaking a basement bathroom renovation, a bit earlier than we had anticipated :P The basement bathroom (half bath, actually, no shower or tub) was carpeted. And the carpet had been used by a cat as a litter pan at some point before we lived here. I noticed it was stinky when we saw the house last summer.  But it actually didn't smell too bad when we moved in, so we left the carpet and figured we could deal with it later.

A couple weeks ago, Joe steamcleaned the basement carpet including the bathroom.  A couple days later, I noticed that there was a bunch of sand around the base of the toilet. It looked odd, not like sand that would come off someone's shoes. The next day at bedtime, Isabelle came out and let us know that there were ants in the sand. Hmmmm. So we pulled up the carpet around the toilet and yes, that was not sand but ant hills. We vacuumed what we could and Joe decided to take up the remaining carpet and take the toilet off the next morning.

He set to it the next morning and oh. my.  He called me down and said, "Are you ready for this?" Uhhhhh? No?  Underneath the toilet (under the bowl part) was the biggest ant colony you could imagine living under a toilet, complete with larvae. *shudder*  The best we can figure is that the wax ring deteriorated,  rotted the wood around the pipe, allowing the ants to push through and set up house. Ahhhh, home ownership is neat sometimes.

Hence our bump on the reflooring project. We actually decided to switch the sink/ cabinet and mirrors in the basement bath with the one in our hall bath, which I think looks nice :)  Now we are painting the basement bath, Joe is putting down flooring and making sure the ants are done with. Then we will put the toilet and sink back in. Fun times.

Life with Kids: Liam received his First Communion on April 19th. It was a great day. He was so happy and excited.