Praise the Lord all around. And heres a BIG HUG from me (). Enjoy the new home. And I do pray that the mobil home sales fast for you. That a couple will say it is home as soon as they step into it. Amen thank you Jesus. -- In any kind of circumstance PRAY Karen Carter 74' -------------- Original message -------------- > 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. > > ________________________________________________________________ > Get your name as your email address. > Includes spam protection, 1GB storage, no ads and more > Only $1.99/ month - visit http://www.mysite.com/name today!