My weekend started on Thursday afternoon. Youngest DD and I went to a neighboring town with her BFF and her mother for a Christmas event. We stayed in a hotel overnight, enjoyed the swimming pool the next morning, and then hit the outlets for some shopping. I bought some more gifts from my list, stayed within my budget during the trip.
After returning home Friday night we were woken up by the house alarm at 3am. Our water heater was leaking, and got into the ceiling, setting off the alarms. Very scary, I ran around and turned off water valves, turned off the gas, and tried to take the batteries out of the fire alarms, and then discovered that the alarms were wired through the house. I found the fuse box and shut off the "smoke detector" fuse. This was new to me, I always thought that smoke detectors were just battery operated, I didn't know that they could be wired and connected to the breaker box...
So Saturday morning we had to improvise- no breakfast with Santa, as we had to wait for an emergency visit from the plumber instead. The water heater will be replaced within the next few days, but the plumber disconnected the water supply from the heater so that we could at least turn our water back on. It has been a weekend of cold showers... I pretend I am Pocahontas bathing in the river in the middle of winter
Sunday after church I did grocery shopping, a bit more Christmas shopping, and went on a cookie baking marathon. I have a box of goodies to send out to relatives, and teacher gifts to send to school with DD.
Today it is back to work, always plenty to do!