This is exactly why...

we hire people for home repairs. We have really hard water and our hot water tank has needed fixed since this summer. We have been too busy (and nervous) to do it ourselves. The women at Home Depot said it was really easy though: just turn the water supply off, hook up a hose to the tank, run it down the stairs to the toilet and open the valve to let it drain. So far, so good. The problem came with the second part of the job. She said once the tank was empty, to let some water into the tank to break up the rest of the sediment and then drain it again. Easy enough...except there were a million other things going on at the same time and we forgot 'some water' part. When Dan went back upstairs to check on it, water was EVERYWHERE!! I ran up there and grabbed some towels to soak it up. In the mean time I hear some that sounds like rain downstairs and run down to see water POURING through the bathroom vent. To top it all off the smoke detector starts to go off because I forgot all about the grilled cheese gourmet dinner I was making. We eventually got it all cleaned up (and are still praying it doesn't warp the floors). Alyssa was so cute during the whole ordeal! She keep telling Dan it would be 'OK' and the 'floors would be fine'. She was very calm and encouraging! The worst part about it is that I don't think it corrected the problem! If it didn't we will be finding someone else to fix it for sure!!!

**UPDATE**

So it didn't fix the problem, of course. Luckily a friend of my parents knew what he was doing and fixed it for us. It needed 2 new heating elements...Dan never would have able to been able to do that himself!! Oh well, we have hot water again...and in below 0 weather, that is all that matters!!