Its such a beautiful morning, I had hubby open up some of the windows early this morning, before he left :) What makes that even more beautiful, is that our money isn't being blown through our a/c's LOL!
Lets see....We are in week 3 of homeschooling for this year. So far so good! James, Brendan and Abby, have a more positive outlook and seem to be more motivated, especially with the curriculum changes. Doing the SOS math has been a huge burden off of me this year, hopefully it will continue to go smoothly, even as they get to the parts that aren't review. The approach I am using for spelling has been going well too, as they are more motivated to pass the first quiz to get farther on the lists. I think the huge thing with that is that they are not "wasting" their time on stuff they already know! We have barely gotten into the unit study, I was waiting on some books from the library (and not all of them have come in yet) so we started that yesterday. They seemed to be ok with it, but we will see :)
Its been a real trying week around here...Hubby is getting set to start school on Tues, so we were (and still) awaiting word on his school loans. Turns out they misplaced his paperwork at OU, and they said it would be available today (but as of this morning its not there). He has basically until Monday to get his books and other stuff he may need. So we are eagerly awaiting to hear what is going on there.
In addition to that minor issue, we have had several things happen to our house... the first thing was about a week ago we had a storm blow in (not really big news here in Oklahoma LOL) but it did bring in some strong winds from the north and LOTS of rain (praise God! we need rain!) I awoke at 3:30am to check on Lilly (she was fussing) and looked up to see some small water stains that were there before! I am so thankful that there was no water leaking through as this was right over our heads in bed! So in the morning we promptly call our insurance company, and they came out a few days later and told us we get to replace our roof :) YAY (but we may have to fight to get full value of replacement costs and we have a huge unexpected deductible, God will take care of it!). And since then, the stain has not gotten any worse, even with some other rain that has come through :)
A day or so later, I noticed water under our water heater in the garage. I had initially thought, and hoped, that it was from all that rain, but the water stayed even after the rain was long gone. A couple of days ago a plumber confirmed our concernes when he told us it HAS to be replaced, and will have to be brought up to the new code...at the very least $1700 to do the job
(I think this is where I lost the color on my face). We called around and some other places were saying $1800 to $2000.
And in this same week, James broke BOTH pairs of his glasses, and his prescription had expired, so off to the eye dr we had to go. Fortunately, we got a great deal on his new glasses, both when said and done were only $107! (Praise God for good deals right before the school year starts lol)
All this while hubby's check is being garnished. That's a whole other story, as its not supposed to be, but because we are dealing with other attorney involved with our custody case and DHS, it could be a long process to get them to stop. We should know something real soon on the one involving the attorney as he had until yesterday to prove to the judge that the garnishment was not premature. Hopefully our attorney will get ahold of DHS real soon (they won't talk to hubby because he has an attorney), they did not read ALL of the child support order, where we made payment arrangements on the back support with out being come after for the back support (if that makes sense!) so they are now trying to come after hubby for back support, which we have been paying on every month!.
So my stress level has been through the roof! I know that God will take care of all this stuff, and in the end, none of this matters. But its hard, so hard, when its one thing after another after another. I don't expect things to be a breeze in life, but I can say that I don't look forward to times like this! lol All I can think is that we are on the right path somewhere, and the adversary is trying his all to discourage us! But in reality, its causing us to put even more faith in God, so that's not such a bad thing ;) Anyway, I am prayin' for things to work out (they WILL, I know God will take care of it!) and for me to be able to relax! LOL
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