The First 24 Hours
Before I get into the details in future posts, it’s helpful to know the story of what happened. I live in the north shore suburbs of Chicago with my family. We bought our home and moved in late summer of 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. We’d lived in a high rise condo for about a decade downtown and when it got a lot tighter while we were all home all the time during the pandemic, we upgraded from about 1100 sq ft to 4500 sq ft. The home met 90-95% of our wishes, was relatively up to date at just 15 years old and pretty immediately felt like home. In addition to buying quite a bit of furniture, we also took many pieces that had been in our families, including several antiques. The house served our work-from-home needs with two offices as well as our need of daycare/preschool for our daughter, her friend and a nanny. The Call: Over Memorial Day weekend of 2023, we were visiting friends and family at a relative’s Indiana lake house about four hours aw...