Friday, July 6, 2007, 10:19 PM

The good news Adelaine is doing great. I forgot to mention on our last post that 48 hours after her spinal injection last week she really hit a slump, but by the next morning she was doing much better and by day four she was great again! Wow, what a way to bounce back!

Well, here it goes… the not so good…

When we bought our house, a small portion of our property, not the actual house was in the flood zone. However, since it was a small corner of the yard and not the house we were free and clear from having to pay additional flood insurance. Not too long ago, I guess because of all the hurricane threats over recent years, the house was re-evaluated and it was declared to be in the zone and our insurance went up a good bit. Not at all what we needed, but we have somehow made it work. Well, now our property insurance just went up substantially. It feels like we are being slowly but surely squeezed from our home. Put those two things together and our monthly payment to own this home is a whopping $1,900.00 a month!

All the while, Doug and I have been trying to figure out a way from all the financial stresses we’ve been under. I am already working part time which was not part of our original plan, but it seems that we have veered a slight bit from it anyway. Ha! Before we got the latest news about the property tax, we had already been working on how to get us out this mess! Here’s the plan… At the end of the month, after Adelaine’s make a wish all expense paid dream vacation by the Dream Fund, (we could really use a vacation right about now!) I am going to increase my hours at work. Currently, I take the children with me and do office work, but I am also going to start working nights, a few nights a week. I will be caring for the elderly and during the night at their home. I have always wanted to be a stay at home mom, plus with Adelaine’s treatments, it seems like the best solution for us. Doug can put the children to bed and I’ll get home first thing in the morning. That’s the plan on my side, here’s Doug’s…

Doug has submitted his application to begin taking college courses and obtain his degree in Business, part time, of course, while he continues working. He has tons of experience but not having that slip of paper has been so limiting. He has about 1 ½ years of school behind him so we realize that it will take a few years, but it will be so worth it once he’s done.

As for our house, I was just sick by the thought of having to uproot the children and move. Our house is nothing too extravagant, but it really works for us. Our children have been through so much, I hate doing this to them. We worked so hard to get the inside just how we wanted it. Notice I said the inside, the outside we don’t have grass, we just occasionally mow down wildflowers and weeds and hope we don’t get attacked by wild natives while were at it!). We just moved the boys to a new school that is within bike-riding range from us, plus we are just a stone’s through away from All Children’s Hospital. Let me just get it all out! I love the floor plan we have here. With Mason’s allergies, it couldn’t be better. We have closet space galore and I know how rare that can be! When Adelaine was first diagnosed, Eddie, a good friend came over and painted her bedroom lavender. It is beautiful. All those hours she spent in her bedroom, I was so thankful that she had a cheerful place to hide out. Eddie also painted the boys’ bedroom sage green. He didn’t want them to feel left out. Wasn’t that sweet? They had been begging for a green room, they were so excited about it! To pack up and say good bye is so depressing. Over the past year we’ve known so many people who were run out of their homes for the exact same reasons. I have never seen so many houses for sale. There seem to be at least two on every street! I like stability (don’t we all). Somehow I feared all this was coming. In a way I’m glad it happened, at least now we can move forward.

So what now? We will be putting our house on the market this weekend. We’ve started looking for a place to rent. Hopefully we can find a rental with a lease option so we don’t have to uproot the children even more. After Doug graduates, hopefully we will be in the position to buy again. I feel like slowly but surely everything is being stripped away. First our finances, lets be honest they weren’t that great BEFORE Adelaine got sick, now they’ve just gone down hill from there, then our vehicles, and now our home. Woe is me. But hang on, Adelaine is doing great and our family is healthier than we ever were before. Yes we had no vehicles before, but now we have two that are newer and better than the ones we had. God has been faithful and I know we can count on Him. Please pray for us and the especially the children. I hope we will find a place that will work for us as well as this house has and that the children will be happy there. Please pray that God will reveal to us where He wants us to be. The one thing this house doesn’t have is a pool and so while were asking… Hey, why not!

Thank you for your prayers!

God bless,
Angela

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