Freezing Pipes

Well, despite our hopes that getting heat in our house would keep the pipe to our bathroom sink from freezing again, when it hit 20 below a couple of nights ago, it froze. We were really lucky it didn't burst. We knew it would hit 12 below the following night, so we decided to finally bite the bullet and go digging for this pipe, because it was buried somewhere - behind a wall or above a ceiling. Ben cut a hole in the kids' closet, because we really thought it was behind that wall, but nope. That hole was cut in vain. Then he started digging around the ceiling above the washer and dryer, and he found it! So he had to rip quite a long strip out of our drywalled ceiling to expose this pipe. We found out that there are some little air holes in the foundation that let drafts in, and the pipe is like an inch away from those air holes. So Ben wrapped heating tape around the pipe, and now our water flow has been restored! Too bad it had to come at the expense of our ceiling downstairs. Oh well. Ben is going to spray that foam stuff into the drafty places, and then place some insulation there. Then, eventually, when money falls out of trees, we can afford to fix the ceiling again. Sheesh. We seriously bought the Money Pit. Ben is like Tom Hanks and I'm like Shelley Long. But I'm not as skinny as Shelley Long. And Tom Hanks has more hair. :) Am I so old to remember that movie?? I've been feeling kind of old lately.