We looked at a house on Monday (Labor Day) and it could've worked for us....if it weren't for the $550 annual pet fee and the fact that THE STUPID PLACE WAS INFESTED WITH MOLD!!! Yeah, that's right, mold! Nick ended up having chest pains and was wheezing that night. Took him to the doctor on Tuesday and now he's on an inhaler...would've been on the nebulizer, but yeah, it's in storage in "Dead"Land! Oh snap! We were just there yesterday---dumb me! (Man, I totally wasn't thinking about that! Too many "bad" feelings while I was there, so I wasn't thinking.)
Okay, so why do I keep torturing myself? There's a certain whiney thingy that I keep thinking about, and it just pisses me off, so why do I still think about it? The thing is whacked, and absolutely NOT from the real world... Okay, shutting up now. LOL It's actually quite funny, but hey!
Anyway, there's an apartment we could have if we want it...BUT (isn't there always a "but"?) it's right off a busy highway (meaning our back yard goes to the highway). There's a dinky house we'll find out about on Monday (whether it's even available or not). There's a house WAY out of the way for our jobs...we're talking 45 minute drive for Jerry AT THE LEAST! Then there's a nice, clean double-wide on a nice, quiet street only a couple of miles from our school with a nice, big yard...it'd be perfect for us! I haven't talked to the realtor yet, but we're really hoping this one is affordable for us...it's just down the street from our "dream property"...so the neighborhood would be great for us!!! I don't know if the realtor will check his voicemail over the weekend or not, but pray we can get this one...it's 3 bedrooms AND it has what looks to be a porch that was enclosed to look like part of the house which would be a perfect "family room" for the computer, game system, a sewing corner, etc. I WANT THIS PLACE FOR MY HOME!!! Okay, I'm finished ranting now....maybe.
Oh yes, I MUST share a picture of my kiddos. It was actually taken with my camera phone back in August the day before we left the "Land of the Dead"...some great friends were helping us put some stuff in storage and the kids were playing in the back of their truck. This is my all-time favorite picture of my kids...because they actually LOOK sweet...and LOOK as if they get along (but don't be fooled!)...here ya go!
On another note...I was just taking the time to reflect on my past blogs (since the beginning of my "blogdom") and realized that since this summer was basically a focus of my energy on trying to help with "damage control"...I didn't even post about my son, Nick, acquiring a broken kneecap...and I even took a picture. (It's dark/yellowy, but it's still pretty decent.) During VBS/Youth Week, the youth would volunteer to help with VBS and then stay for YW activities held in the afternoons. Nick and Elisabeth went to most of them, except the canoe trip. One noonish day, while waiting for the "time to leave" for the YW trip to the beach, the kids all decided to play Wall Ball---Nick included. (He actually got along well with most of the youth, even though he was a year younger than "youth group age".) As he went to pick up the ball (coming right toward him)a couple of youth went for it as well... the guys collided with each other, and one of them landed on Nick's back. As this happened, Nick's knee got drilled into the gym floor. He proceded to come tell me that he bruised his knee (but wasn't crying) and then went on his merry way. We went to the beach, waited out a storm, and then went swimming/wave jumping in the wicked waves caused from the storm. (That was actually a great trip, we found a welch shell--kind of like a conch shell--that was pretty big for being washed up.) Nick played in the waves, passed football, etc. Then, when we returned to the church early (thanks to another storm) he showed me his knee... it was swollen up, and purple. We put ice on it, swelling went down.....whew, thought that would be it. Then, he walked to Jerry's office and it ballooned out even bigger than before...so off to the ER we went. He chipped the kneecap, and they gave him a brace and crutches...so goes the summer of being immobile! He was in the brace for about 3 weeks, maybe 4. Anyway, here's a picture for you...
