Blessing of the day…
So we got up this morning bright and early and left at 4:30 am to head to Alexandria for Dad’s surgery. His admit time was 7 am. It was pouring! I mean pouring when we got up and oured almost the whole way, which wouldn’t be too bad except that the AC in our van went capoot and would NOT work at all so we fought the foggy windows the whole way.
They admitted Dad at 7 am and they took him back at 10 am. Around 11:30 Dr. Dowd came out and said that everything went great. He had his nerve bundles around L4/L5/S1 Very tightly pinched, but that’s corrected now. It will take time for all the nerves to come back, but they have the room to now so that’s good. Dad was in recovery until about 3pm when they finally got a room for him.
Dad after surgery
Then we started the HOT drive back to Jennings. We had to drive the whole way with our windows down to try to cool the kids off because poor things were sweating.
We alos heard from our agent and the bank refused our bid, so we’re heading there tomorrow to do another one.
But at least everything went great with Dad and we’re praying for a speedy recovery!
Busy week coming
We are going to have our hands full these next few days.
The family is coming over today, Mom & Dad, Bill & his family. Will be nice.
Tomorrow Mom & Dad drive up to Alexandria and they will call us whenthey find out what time Dad’s surgery is Tuesday. Tomorrow evening Jim & I have an appointment with a lawyer in Lake Charles about the Calcasieu stuff.Since we can afford him now we’re hoping he can get the case finally dropped.
Tuesday we’re driving up to Alexandria to be with Mom while Dad has his lower back worked on. He’s suppose to be there for 1-3 nights, depending on how he heals.
Wednesday Cosmo gets his 3 months shots. Poor kitty.
And of course sometime between Monday and Wednesday we’ll find out if our bid was accepted or if it was countered. Ahh! You know us we can’t do anything spaced out and relaxing. *chuckles*
It's started
So today we took the deposit and signed the papers to bid on the house. Yeh! I’m so excited. *jumps up and down all excited* We are suppose to find out by Wednesday what their response is.
Our Hopeful Future Home
So we have found the perfect house for us. Hopefully all the paperwork goes good with no problem. It will actually be about 3 days before we can start the paperwork so *crosses fingers* hopefully no one will buy it in the mean time.
It’s here in town. They call it a triplex, I call it a duplex. Was originally built by the Zigler’s and was a place to be back in the 60′s. It’s all brick. The realtor says it’s 6800 sq ft, a previous owner said it’s 7500 sq ft. So it’s big. lol. It’s currently a bank repo so that makes the bidding on it a bit more complicated even though we are paying cash. It’s listed at $108,000 but the bank said they will take $88,000, so we are hoping to get them lower because it does need some work. Mainly on our side, the bathroom is gutted out and the kitchen cabinets need to be redone.
The Purple section. or west side will be Our Home, the Red section, or east side is for Mom & Dad and the Blue section (which is part of the purple technically) will be for our brother Bill.
As you can see it’s a maze. It has a lot of potential and I know we can make it into a gorgeous home. Plus having Mom & Dad next door works great because they can cook for me (hehe) and it gets them out of that rat hole theylive in now. Mom & I have already picked out spots to plant a garden inthe backyard. Only thing we’ll have to becareful on is having our kitty on our side and their boxer on the other side. lol.
Most of the “storage rooms” you can make a small bedroom/playroom out of. They are huge! We’re excited. I must have taken close to 50 pictures today. You can see all of them HERE.
Kitty Antics
You guys remember our dear lil Cosmo. He’s such a clown. He can’t decide if he’s a cat, gopher or puppy. Here’s some cute pics we took recently.
Only way he can keep his ball away from the kids.
I think I’m a praire dog!
breathing
Well, we went this morning and everything progresssed very well. The Mediator knew both the lawyers, had worked previsously with both and got down to business very quickly. It helped it was friday and the Noble office closed at noon plus the Noble lady’s son is going thru orientation at LSU, so all those worked in our favor of getting it done and over.
I won’t say how much we’re getting after lawyer fees and costs. Quite frankly I don’t think it’s no one’s business, but it is enough to do what we wanted which is buy a decent home, fix our van and hopefully have enough to start our own business. We still have to wait 30 days until the paperwork and everything is done, but now we can look for a home. Next week we’re going to get a list of foreclosures and try to really find the best deal we can.
This weekend we are going to relax because that is one major stress off our shoulders and we can almost close that chapter in our lives. Yeah!
anxiously waiting…
So tomorrow is the Mediation in the Noble lawsuit. It’s scheduled for 9:30 am and our lawyer said to expect to be there all day. Most will go to late afternoon, evening before they are resolved. If it can’t be resolved then it will be another 6 months before we get a jury date and then who knows how long that will take. He said up to a yr before resolving it that way.
I’m trying my best to stay calm today and to unwind so that tomorrow I’m not a ball of nerves, but it’s soo hard to relax. My head is racing with a thousand what if’s and my head hurts from my migraine. I’m just praying and hoping that everything goes ok tomorrow.
We’re not greedy people, we just want to be able to provide for our family like everyone else. Our hope is to leave tomorrow knowing we can find a decent home, fix our van and start our business. Anything above that is a miracle.
Surgery
Well we got a date set for Dad’s surgery. It’s July 7th. From what the dr said he will stay up to 2 nights and what they are going to do is remove the protruding parts of the busted disks and grind down a bone spur that is pressing against his spinal cord nerves. Afterwards he won’t be able to lift anything over a jug of milk and permanently he won’t be able to lift over 25 lbs.
Father's Day
Today is the grand day to honor and celebrate the Father’s in our lives. I don’t have a father but I do want to honor the 2 men who were like a Dad to me growing up: Mr. Buck & Uncle Willard. Through their love and guidance I got to experience a real dad.
Buck Montague
Uncle Willard
I also want to mention Dad, well Jim’s Dad. He’s taken me under his wings and has loved me unconditionally since he first meet me and I am eternally grateful for that. I know I’m not an easy person to get along with and we all have our moments but I’m forever his “Blanket Ass Daughter”.
A grand loveable Shout Out to my hubby Jim. I know we have our doubts, but I know he’s a great Father to our children. I Love You !!!!!
at a lost
*sigh* I don’t know what to do anymore. I feel lost these days. I’m tired of the crying every night because I feel like a bad parent. I know I’m not suppose to take alot of it personal because James is diagnosed with ADHD w/ Anxiety & ODD, It’s just soo hard not to feel like you’re doing everything wrong. Everytime we find something that works, it works once or twice and then it doesn’t work anymore.
We slack up and try to let him do alot more than what we normally would because we’re all stressed out and then he runs a mile with it and it blows up in our face.
All I can do right now is put it in God’s hands because thats where it needs to be and I need the help.