High Water Usage Alert

We received a notice from Saint Paul Regional Water Services that our water usage has increased dramatically, which indicates we may have a water leak and recommended we check our water line.  My heart sank.  We spent so much time and energy (and money) renovating our house and then we encountered yet another problem. 

Chris looked at the letter and declared we have no water leak.  We've simply added more people!  Almost twice as many in fact.  He pointed out that our water usage in March was compared with our water usage from the same month a year prior.  In March 2014, we had no au pair and only two children who attended daycare.  We ran our dishwasher and washer less frequently and flushed our toilets less often.  We bathed two children in one bathtub and did not run four separate baths because one kid came home with a confirmed parasite and everyone needed to bath separately until we can confirm we got rid of the parasite. 

Thankfully our high water usage can be explained, not by a leak, but by adoption.