So hi!

You are all probably wondering where I am? I ask for prayers and good thoughts and POOF! I’m gone!

Yeah, it’s been fun. Except I’m not supposed to talk like that becuase my awesome fabulous Realtor reminded me about The Secret and she’s right. Like breeds like. I’ve had some great, awesome realizations in the last few days, right when I needed them most. Like that I am pretty powerful, I can take a bad situation and find something positive, I can take the most stressful thing and feel ok with it. I’m stronger than I thought I was and I love my husband and our 7 kids more than I ever knew was possible. We’ve had some of the best times in the last few days, so many laughs I couldn’t keep count.

So right now I’m sitting in my livingroom and it is mostly empty save a few random items to keep the kids occupied. We get to camp out here for the next few days until it is time for me to catch my flight. Then I’m on my own for a few days until Tony arrives with our van.

Thank you all for your support, thoughts, prayers and good wishes. I has meant a lot and it has definitely helped. Sometimes it feels like things aren’t going the way we wish, ideally, but we have seen time and time again that they are, they do. Sometimes it takes longer, sometimes it just takes longer to notice! Right now I think it is a little of both coupled with a little bit of wealth, good fortune and pure luck.

Ok, blah blah blah, positive thinking, blah blah blah.

I just have to say that ARGH!!! I need to vent about two things. I’ll keep it short. All I can say is? I am sure things happen for a reason. Blah blah blah, positive thinking.

First I decided I was not comfortable with Tony driving some of the kids down to our new house without a Navigation system in our van. I know this probably sounds ridiculous and spoiled to many of you but MY car, my Prius, has a built-in Nav system that is To Die For. I love it. I rely on it. Heavily. As in I will do ridiculous things to go out of my way to drive my car instead of our van. I LOVE Dharma. I have already programmed her to find her way to Pedro (our new house - I name things, ok?!) and any of a million points on the way. She is probably about half way to Pedro as I type. So anyway, did I say this would be short? I love my nav system. I don’t know how Tony would find his way to Pedro without it. We don’t actually own Maps. We use mapquest but our printer is packed. So I planned to splurge in the name of “safety” and buy a nav system for the van. I did my research, I found THE one I wanted, which happened to be $100 off at CompUSA which made it affordable for me. So I called to see if they had them in stock. They said yes, sure, come on in. I bet you think you know where this is going, right? Wrong.  I went into CompUSA the very next morning, as soon as they opened, and I went to purchase said GPS when it was revelaed to me that it is no longer on sale. “But the sale ends on 3/3! I read the ad!” “Ma’am, our assetts were liquidated and we are closing all stores effective last night at 9pm. We have no legal authority to offer any merchadise at a sale price or discount.” I hope I get good karmic points for telling the poor man that i was very sorry to hear he would be jobless. I know how that feels. But it took awhile to get to that point becuase I was incredulous. It just did not make sense to my head. So! No GPS for me. Or rather, Tony.

Whine number two is this whole packer/mover insanity. The packers did not pack all our stuff and then we got charged an additional $500 to pack some  books. Then the movers came and oops - they ran out of room in their truck. Which, DEJA VU! This same thing happened with our last move except that one was local and no big deal. So now we have TWO trucks and TWO deliveries on different days. Won’t it be FUN to see what arrives when? Wheeee! Plus they said they would leave the vacuum until last but -oops - packed it first. And then they packed a couch, a chair and some bar stools that we were NOT taking and who knows what else. That’s about when I lost it. Becuase there is no way I am interested in paying for furniture to be moved that I specifically itemized that we were NOT moving. It turned out ok so far. We get to keep the furniture without paying for the move which is totally Best Case Scenario. I really REALLY wanted to bring this couch and chair - it has all this great karmic energy. A friend labored on that couch, I sat and furiously knitted while my dear friend was laboring upstairs with her sweet adorable son. When she moved away and offered it up for sale, I jumped. Since then, it has held all kinds of good memories for my family as well. It is BEAT UP but I love it. I was going to ditch it in the name of frugality but now I get to take it with us. Now I can sit on it with my dear friend whose babies were labored and nursed on that couch. Our boys can play video games on that couch. I love the stupid couch.

So things do work out. Even the crappy things. Sometimes it just takes longer to get to the happy ending.

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