NEW HOME!

It's official!  We own our Forever Home!!!

Last Night

You know it was good when you wake up hoarse from the screaming.

Breaking

Frustration overload
Another stone
Another weight
Another creaking
    spinal break
A fractured back
A fractured life
A breaking mother, daughter, wife

-Laura Brumback, January 2012

Doubt

... To sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream...
For  in that sleep of death
What dreams may come...

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet


What dreams, indeed
Or only the cold dark?
Nothingness
Non-existence
    (Without end?)
One moment here,
Then *blink* and gone
No more, no more
Nevermore

-Laura Brumback, January 2012

Nevergreen

Born out of time
And out of mind
Treading madly
Strangling, blind

Helpless, hopeless,
Useless, lost,
Fumbling, Bumbling,
Storm-wracked, tossed

Reaching, frantic,
Clutching, drowning,
No one else can
See Death crowning

Invisible,
Alone, unseen,
She drowns in seas
Of Nevergreen


 -Laura Brumback, January 2012

Home Sweet Home!!!

THE FINAL HURDLE IS CLEARED!  The house will be ours!  We Close on Monday, and we will be the proud owners of our Forever Home.  I want to dance!  I want to sing!  Oh dear God, I have to PACK!

TenseTenseTENSE & Frustrated!

I am not going to let this fall through now, not over a $1500 repair!

The sellers have already lost $10k in repairs for us, & part of that is them paying $3k of our closing costs! They won't make a penny off the sale of the house. They have done all they can to make this house the home we need it to be, even sacrificed their own profit. Our Realtor has even sacrificed a large portion of her own profit to help repair the basement wall.

They've done this not because they just want to sell the house, but because they want us to have this home! They care about this, they care about us, they want this to happen for us.

The only point of contention is this last repair, to dry out the crawlspace. The house has stood just fine since 1950 with a damp crawlspace, but I'll agree with my husband that it would be better dry. We can have that done satisfactorily for $1500, but we've bled the seller dry. I think we can manage $1500. I know we could save that much before the crawlspace became a problem.

However, the ball is in Husband's court now, his decision. I'm just praying for God's Perfect Will. Not my will, Lord, but thine.