g   great news about your house! glad to hear you are finally moved in!
rhonda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 6:02 PM
Subject: The move is on going!


> 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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