Good morning!
First day of training went well. We're learning the Mandt system, which is a way of "preventing, de-escalating, and if necessary, intervening when the behavior of an individual poses a threat of harm to themselves and/or others." The Deaf school where I will be working has some children who have other disabilities besides being Deaf. There are also many students who cannot communicate with their families and the frustration of being unable to communicate what they want/need can sometimes boil over. So the training will help us deal with the situations while still keeping everyone and everything safe. Quite interesting.
After the training, I went to pick up Christie from work and Alex and Nathan from the friend who was watching them. We came home, dropped off Christie then went over to the elementary school for Back to School night. That pretty much ate up my evening.
I expect much the same today--training all day, then Alex has Scouts and I promised Christie I would take her to do some college shopping. She needs some clothes. So I don't expect to accomplish very much today.
I have an urgent question for those of you who know houses or your husbands work in construction or you know someone in construction. I live in a split level house. In the basement, right in front of the stairs is a wet spot. It appeared on Saturday night, I think. At first I thought it was because my boys had been playing outside with water shooters and had come into the house wet (their bedroom is just to the left of the wet spot). But by yesterday morning it looked and felt like someone had just poured a cup of water on the carpet. I put down a towel and blotted up as much as I could, then put down a dry towel before I left. When I got home yesterday evening, the towel was completely wet. Not soaking wet, but more than damp. I checked the under-stairs storage room where the main water shutoff is--it's dry. I checked the furnace--dry. I checked the bathroom--dry. I cannot see any signs of a leak anywhere--no water spots on the ceiling (though I don't know why water would be dripping from the ceiling--this spot is not under the kitchen sink or bathroom), no wet baseboards or drywall, etc. It's almost like the water is seeping up from the concrete floor.
I put down another towel last night and this morning it's less damp, but it's not dry so water is still coming from somewhere. Any ideas of what could be happening? And how do we fix it? It appears to be just that one spot so at least it seems we're not dealing with spreading water.
We did have some torrential rain recently so I'm wondering if that had anything to do with anything?
Thanks for any advice/help.
Merilee
