Hot Water

When you have seven children and five of them are girls... and only 2 bathrooms... there's going to be stress in your house.  And to have four teenage girls?  Well... you can only imagine.  You must know that there is never enough hot water.

We went through periods where we structured the day and time of each person's shower time.  This simply does not work with a house full of children.  Some, just throughout the course of their day will require a shower whether it is their turn or not.  And heaven forbid if one of them has a date, their shower time is, without question, on the same day as the date.  How can you possibly do your hair unless it is freshly washed?  Schedules were not working and we were still out of hot water.

Next we tried giving everyone a length of time they were allowed to shower.  Everyone was allowed 10 minutes to shower.  This was a joke.  I upped the time to 15 minutes for the girls which all too quickly became my next joke.  What if it was the day we had to shave our legs?  What if we needed to deep condition our hair... which apparently means you have to leave the conditioner on your head for five minutes... and no you can't turn the water off during this time because it gets too cold.   Still no hot water.

I thought maybe we had an obsolete water heater.  I asked the repairman to come out and take a look and his assessment of the situation actually made me consider that a $45 trip charge may not be that bad.  He looked right at me and said "You don't need a water heater replacement. You need an extra water heater."

We never ran out of hot water again.

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