Hey, Kathy, it's always good to read your updates, whether they're typed
when you're totally wiped or full of energey, so keep 'em coming, girl!

Peggy

At 03:02 PM 9/27/2004, you wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>I haven't collected mail yet, because I know that there is probably a ton
>of it to wade through, and I mostly just want to give you an update on
>how we are doing here in Maine. First of all, I forgot to tell you on
>Friday night, when I told you that we were moving, that our cat caught a
>mouse and brought it along, live, as his contribution to the move. It
>made life lively, indeed.
>Okay, on with the news. Liz, Caleb and Greg and myself moved into the
>house, oficially on Friday night. By that, I mean that we slept there, on
>the floor, but we were in! Chris remained aloof and stayed in the house.
>He didn't help with moving at all. When he discovered that we had removed
>his decorative swords from his room, he called the police on us, after
>threatening us, but then, he gave up the fight and went back into the
>mobile home, which leaves us to wonder what the other end of the 911
>conversation sounded like to make Chris give up so easily. Maybe he
>learned that the police wouldn't back him either. I don't know.
>Well, anyway, we made trip after trip on Saturday, as you would expect.
>The electrician came and Rick came and disconnected the power and water
>from the mobile home and brought our house to life and, oops, the plumber
>didn't do his job! Poor rick, he and the electrician stayed until 8:30 at
>night to try to get things working. We ended up with one working toilet,
>one working sink, not in the same bathroom and cold water for showers.
>Rick couldn't have known about most of this before the water was hooked
>up because it was the water, shooting out in tiny little holes that
>revealed it. Anyway, Rick was mad and our family really stepped up to the
>plate to help him feel better. He's such a sweety. I really like the
>electrician too. WE all got to know each other pretty well by the end of
>the evening.
>Chris did help move things on Saturday, especially his things. He had
>decided that he would take the fourth bedroom after all since the
>basement was getting filled with so much stuff. Then, Sunday, he decided
>that he wanted the basement after all and moved there and that is where
>he is now and the fourth bedroom is our office after all. My brane is
>really fried right now. I'm so tired, but I do want to give you the
>highlights.
>I do have a praise or two also. First of all, yesterday, Chris didn't go
>to church with us, I stood up and, at first I couldn't speak, and then, I
>broke down and just thanked everybody for praying for our family. I just
>couldn't stop crying. The ones who know what is going on, know, and the
>ones who don't know will at least pray, because they know that we need
>it. I got so many hugs after church. Greg told me later, "this church is
>becoming a midwestern church." Yesterday, I could believe it.
>Then, I had mentioned in my message on Friday that I was afraid of being
>alone with Chris today and I wasn't sure what I was going to do. Well, a
>lady at church, who's son is one of Chris's friends, offered to come over
>today and help me clean. She did it too. And, because she was here, Chris
>was on his best behavior, because he doesn't want her to know what he is
>really like and he was helpful again and did a lot of the grunt work of
>moving things.
>Also, Family Preservation, finally called us back today and we are
>beginning the process of getting real help and innervention for our
>family with Chris. We should not have to live with this kind of behavior,
>and the people that I talked to today, from two different organizations
>that we will be working with, were very supportive of me. I had been
>praying so hard about this because I just keep getting so many closed
>doors, but today was very reassuring and I just had to share.
>Oh yah, by the way, the plumber came back today to finally finish his
>job. I guess he went on a weekend get away or something. Anyway, I didn't
>dare yell at him because I want to take a hot shower, or maybe a bubble
>bath. Well, He left and told me that the job was done, but Liz
>discovered, when she took a bath, in the maine bathroom, that the drain
>isn't working right. Then, I discovered that I can't open my silverware
>drawer unless I open the dish washer door, they are at a 90 degree angle
>to each other and he brought the wrong color toilet seats. I haven't
>tried my tub yet, but I'll let you know. Rick doesn't know about this
>yet, but we'll have to make some more calls I guess. I hope that Rick
>ditches this pplumber. Rick is too good to have a guy like this as a sub
>contractor.
>Anyway, I'm exhausted and I still have to keep cleaning the old place and
>figuring out where to put things in the new. I'm sorry if this message
>sounded like a free association thing, but I've just got so much to share
>and not much brane power to share it. Things will calm down again soon
>and I'll start making sence again, honest. ]Until then,
>Crazy Kathy signing off!
>
>Oh, P.S.
>We had our first couple look at the mobile home tonight.  We have one or
>two more comeing tomorrow.  Please pray that this thing sells quickly.
>
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