I am all about seeing the bright side in things: I choose to look at my Hashimoto’s diagnosis as the push I needed to live a healthier life and learn how to take care of myself, I look at my divorce and time as a single mom as a period of growth and this time […]

ou may have seen over on Instagram, but during a family vacation this summer our entire basement flooded. We came home to soaked floors, damp walls, and an expensive realization that everything (furniture, dry wall, carpeting, etc.) would need to be replaced. Looking back, I still wonder if there are things that could have been done to stop the water damage from happening. You may have been in this position too—wondering about the “what ifs” although at the end of the day I would have never predicted that the rain (regardless of how substantial it was this summer) could have wreaked so much havoc on our home.