Aims, you've gotten active in a local church, haven't you? Do they have any kind of bulletin board, email list, anything of the sort? My parish doesn't hesitate to post notices on our board, Google group and even the weekly bulletins putting the word out when someone's having housing difficulties; it's a community, we don't want anyone to be forced to leave, and you never know who might know someone who knows someone who has a place. If your church has anything similar, post a notice -- maybe something will turn up that's at least kind of local, so even if you have to move you have some continuity and Em doesn't have to leave her school and her friends.
Ugh. I'm just so, so sorry. For the stress, and the upset, and all the work you guys put into the house, and the endless struggle with so little forward motion to show for it.
Em doesn't have to leave her school
Another notch in the Worst Parents Ever: She's switching schools this fall and is Not Pleased.
JZ, that is an excellent idea. I put a call for prayer out to the prayer partners last week. I'll write something up for the all-church email in the next couple of days.
Heart attack. "Right lower thingie was 90% clogged". Stint put in. Then a blood clot. But all is good now, and he is home. And drinking beers. @@ So he's going to quit smoking.
oh omnis! I'm glad he is home. but damn.
Yowza, omnis! I'm glad he's okay and at home, but yowza!
Yikes, omnis. I'm glad he is alright, but how scary.
Yipes omnis! Glad he's home now.
Scary, omnis. Glad he's home.
Omnis, I'm glad that your brother's news was as good as it was for something as bad as a heart attack.
Aims, I am relieved to see that the persona non grata thing was a misunderstanding; I was wracking my brain trying to think of who might have said anything to make you feel like you were not wanted here, and who clearly needed some things explained to them. Now, dictionaries might be the solution to more than one issue here, so to speak. I mean, I'm sure more than one of us have a nice solid unabridged that is collecting dust since it got so easy to look up words on the internet and/or dictionary apps. And I have this image in my head of many Buffistas gathering from near and far bringing their enormous tomes and stacking them like blocks of ice or perhaps like bales of hay to build you a warm, safe, and learned home. Well, the image is now the form of the ~ma I am sending for you and MM and Em.
And some eye roll at my sister for her definition of "all is ok".
