Cat Down the Drain
Would you believe it? A cat down the drain. When we first moved into this house, within the first week, our curious toddler boy had mangled the thing that goes up or down to plug the bathroom sink. I just removed it and threw it away. No big deal. So we've had a gaping hole in the sink for two years. What curious boy would not take advantage of such an opportunity? One day, we discovered a tiny white cat figurine down the drain. From the girls' dollhouse. I didn't tell them. It clogged things slightly, but not enough to impede the flow. We would get to it when we could. Once a week or so, I would look down the drain to see if our friend the kitty was still there. It had turned brown (I know - EW!) but was still sitting tight. Six months passed and the drain had begun to back up a little more. After shining his phone flashlight down the gaping hole, my husband spotted a quarter of a bar of soap we had used for was...