Dear Hydromet Bright White Grout-
I am writing you this letter in hopes of gaining some fresh insight on why you must torture me so. As you may be well aware, my bathroom is being renovated. This has been a long process and I look forward to major milestones, one directly involving you, grouting the tile. Which as you know, makes me one step closer to having a completed shower enclosure allowing me to cleanse myself outside the confines of the porno shower in the basement.
Why, Hydromet, must your directions on the back of your packaging lead me astray? I carefully calculated my square footage area of tile to grout line ratio, in fact the tile guy also made the same such calculations, only to be teased with 10 pounds to get the job done. As I come to grout the shower enclosure, it is painfully obvious that the 10 pounds will get me 75% of the way complete. Leaving another weekend with unchecked to-do's in the master punch list of the bathroom renovation. According to the recalculations of remaining grout lines, another 5 pounds should get us home. And another bag was purchased with the remaining 3 linear feet of round trim, which turned out to only need one saw cut. One.
Why, Hydromet, do I follow your add water directions on the back of your packaging? I carefully measure out the water for another 5 pounds of grout mixture, only to end up making a smooth runny wet bucket of grout. You drip off the trowel like ice-cream melting in the sun and my hopes washing down the drain. Why, Hydromet, do you fail me at 11:30am when you know the tile store closes at noon on Saturdays? Luckily, I was able to make the trek and pick up 10 more pounds of grout in hopes of putting this disaster to rest.
10 pounds of grout later, 25 pounds total, the shower is finally grouted and ready for some penetrating sealer in the hopes that one day, the shower may actually be used again. Hydromet, I realize that you cannot control the plumbing connections and the reconnection of the water and shower fixtures, but if you have it in you, please make amends and guide my husband in completing the shower by Halloween. It has been 17 weeks since I have been in the shower last.
Regards,
M
Surprise, not only are we pregnant we are expecting twins. The doctor saw two babies right away but we were blissfully unaware. The first baby was measured and heartbeat verified first with no indication of the sibling baby hiding just around the corner. When the doctor was done with Baby A, she very clearly said, "Now let's move onto the next baby." Insert jaw-dropping to the floor here. So she measured and found the heartbeat for the second baby, now known as Baby B. Scary was going from one baby to two babies, most terrifying was when the doctor then said "let's make sure there isn't a third baby in there...."
12 weeks marked the end of the first trimester, which we made it through with little incident. Mostly tired and a few aversions, but no sickness to speak of. Babies mostly lived off of Wendy's double stack cheeseburgers and plain bagels. The biggest aversions were pork (still), pretty much all vegetables and well most other food. 
16 weeks and the babies are growing and this time they got their official assignments as Baby A and Baby B. A baby is "closest to the exit" and B is hanging out above baby A. The babies were mostly uncooperative in trying to determine the genders. Baby A is suspect to be a girl, but "no painting the nursery pink yet" per the doctor. Baby B, is the wild child and wild card, not cooperative in the least, in fact its hands were on the privates and the umbilical cord was in the way. Genders will be determined March 12, which will be daddy's birthday present. 
The bathroom renovation started Independence Day weekend has been completed by Thanksgiving in true 810 renovation timelines. The last piece is finding something to hang on the wall above the toilet. And some touch up paint. But who's keeping track of these things, there are still outstanding punch items left from the kitchen, what's the fun in completing a project to 100% completion? 
