Not all Roses and Sunshine

Just so you know that it's not all roses and sunshine when doing something creative here is a dose of reality (and my personal stress) for you to see. When pulling up the old bathroom floors a small leak was found. Tracing the leak back the the faucet valve stem I found that a LOT of the drywall behind the shower wall was black, moldy and crumbly. Ah what fun! I have fixed the leak and now I get the new experience of installing a new shower surround and shower doors. I purchased the shower surround. 

The real source of chaos though is this. We're redoing all the flooring on the upstairs level of our two story house. The downstairs is bigger and is, in general the children's domain. That means the carpet is already partially ruined so why not let them finish it off right? A water heater down there flooded two rooms of carpet.  We've sucked the water and lifted the carpet and have been drying it with fans for a few days but it smells like wet dog.  We have a carpet person coming today to possibly replace the pad and decide if we can put the carpet back or need to replace it.  Fun!