For any of you who watch Gossip Girl, you will know what this title means. Chuck Bass lives on the upper east side in a hotel. What a life huh? Living in a hotel? Yeah, let me tell you. Not QUITE as great as it is on the show when you are in a Residence Inn in Evansville, Indiana. Now don't get me wrong, we were HAPPY and thankful to have it. In fact, Tabi thought it was pretty awesome living in a hotel - room service, housekeeping, continental breakfast...me? I just wanted a full kitchen and room for us all to get away from one another. HAHA And very happy that they let Rocko stay with us as well. He was nervous for a couple of days but as you can see, he became quite comfy in his new bed in his new temporary home pretty quickly...
So the week after the fire was an insanely busy one. You don't realize what all goes into this process until you are in it. We had a million things going on every single day. The meeting with the insurance guy was the beginning of a crazy couple of weeks. We had several different cleaning companies come to the house to take what they could out to try to clean it. We had the fire investigators there which seemed pointless but I suppose it's all part of the process. :) I think what a lot of people don't realize is how bad the inside of the house looked. The outside didn't look bad on the news so people thought the inside must not be bad. Wrong-o. Here are a couple of pics so you can get the idea. This used to be my front entry way and my family room. Slightly well done, no?
So the week after the fire was an insanely busy one. You don't realize what all goes into this process until you are in it. We had a million things going on every single day. The meeting with the insurance guy was the beginning of a crazy couple of weeks. We had several different cleaning companies come to the house to take what they could out to try to clean it. We had the fire investigators there which seemed pointless but I suppose it's all part of the process. :) I think what a lot of people don't realize is how bad the inside of the house looked. The outside didn't look bad on the news so people thought the inside must not be bad. Wrong-o. Here are a couple of pics so you can get the idea. This used to be my front entry way and my family room. Slightly well done, no?
We were VERY fortunate in that there was a condo for sale right up the street from our house and the owner is letting us rent it for the time being. We moved into the condo a week after the fire which was great. Somewhat of a home again! I think we were all happy to have a bigger place to live!
One of the main things at this point that we were waiting to find out and one of the main questions that everyone was asking was, "So, what are you going to do? Bulldoze the house? Start over? Rebuild?" We knew that we wanted to stay on our lot, but we weren't sure at that point whether or not they would just take the house down to the studs or say start over. I think we were just happy that we hadn't started our renovations yet. That would have made it even worse I think!!! Waiting, waiting, waiting...
One of the main things at this point that we were waiting to find out and one of the main questions that everyone was asking was, "So, what are you going to do? Bulldoze the house? Start over? Rebuild?" We knew that we wanted to stay on our lot, but we weren't sure at that point whether or not they would just take the house down to the studs or say start over. I think we were just happy that we hadn't started our renovations yet. That would have made it even worse I think!!! Waiting, waiting, waiting...
when the fire burns, we can either despair at what we lose or look at the future at what we will have again.
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