The Real Beauty of Homeownership:

When it rains, it pours

Homeownership, like life, has a way of testing you at inconvenient times.

My kitchen doesn’t look like a grand disaster featured here in this graphic right now—thank God. Yet it surely felt this way upon my discovery.

The dripping sound, a cracked water hose, and the evidence of a familiar staple beneath the sink, now full of nasty water, made my heart sink (no pun intended).

Not another problem.

Not another leak.

Not another issue with this house.

We’ve had plumbing issues before—costly ones that we couldn’t afford. The kind that required parts of the backyard to be dug up, brought stress into the home, and turned what should have been simple into a season of headaches and discord.

And that’s just plumbing, lol. Experiences like that keep you also on high alert. And they teach you afterwhile to be as proactive as you can and how to maintain the sanctity and functioning of your home.

Lately, I’ve been stressed by this chaotic winter, trying to stay patient in my gardening journey, and by a financial surprise—hardly one to welcome and greet with glee—that reinforced my goal to aggressively attack debt.

Standing in my kitchen, I felt the weight of it all at once. Literally. To the point I slowly collapsed.

I’m learning to do small DIYs, but I still feel more comfortable leaving major things, like plumbing, in professional hands. That said, since this was easy to disconnect, I believe I can manage replacing the water hose sprayer tomorrow. Hopefully, it brings a bit of relief.

This is the beauty of homeownership—the real kind.

When things break, you fix them. Sometimes they break at the most inconvenient times.

And over the years, you learn to take one thing at a time.

One day at a time.