LCLake
06-12-2007, 02:46 PM
Hey Girls.
I haven't posted on here in a while. There have been so many changes happening in my life these days - I'm going a little nuts.
My husband's mom is not doing well health-wise. She has arthritis throughout her body and can barely walk. Thankfully she's been approved to get two knee replacements in October... that's been a long time coming for her. She's also been seperated from my husbands father for 8 years and finally the divorce has been made final. She decided not to contest anything - she strongly believes in not getting a divorce.... against everyone else's opinions and beliefs, especially considering the situation. Anyway, since she didn't contest anything, my husbands dad kinda took advantage of that and left her with little to no money, except for the value of her house, to survive for the rest of her life.
This is where we have decided to step in. We can't just let her lose her house and end up with no assets or money at all... so we've talked and talked and talked about taking over her house, renovating (needs a TON), building a nanny suite and living there with our family. I was really bitter at first because I just felt like it was unfair that we had to do this... I just felt like my future was already being decided for me. This plan can't just be short term... we'll be living there for a while. BUT I've just had to come to the conclusion - through a lot of prayer - that this is just my reality. I gotta deal with it.
Anyway, to get all this done, we need to sell our house first... BUT we actually move up to a camp for the summer which means getting our house ready to sell in less than two weeks! I'm stressed... being pregnant doesn't help either! EEEK!
I guess I'm just asking for prayer. I was really stressed out yesterday because everything just seemed be happening really fast for something that is a huge life change. Thankfully we had a meeting lastnight with a financial planner and we decided that the best thing would be to wait until this coming spring and start construction then.... that way we can have things like flooring, kitchen, bathrooms and everything else chosen well in advanced and not rush to figure it out this summer while we're living 2 1/2 hours away!
Please pray for my stress level... haha. Oh life... gotta love what gets thrown at you.
Hope you're all doing well.
Laura
I haven't posted on here in a while. There have been so many changes happening in my life these days - I'm going a little nuts.
My husband's mom is not doing well health-wise. She has arthritis throughout her body and can barely walk. Thankfully she's been approved to get two knee replacements in October... that's been a long time coming for her. She's also been seperated from my husbands father for 8 years and finally the divorce has been made final. She decided not to contest anything - she strongly believes in not getting a divorce.... against everyone else's opinions and beliefs, especially considering the situation. Anyway, since she didn't contest anything, my husbands dad kinda took advantage of that and left her with little to no money, except for the value of her house, to survive for the rest of her life.
This is where we have decided to step in. We can't just let her lose her house and end up with no assets or money at all... so we've talked and talked and talked about taking over her house, renovating (needs a TON), building a nanny suite and living there with our family. I was really bitter at first because I just felt like it was unfair that we had to do this... I just felt like my future was already being decided for me. This plan can't just be short term... we'll be living there for a while. BUT I've just had to come to the conclusion - through a lot of prayer - that this is just my reality. I gotta deal with it.
Anyway, to get all this done, we need to sell our house first... BUT we actually move up to a camp for the summer which means getting our house ready to sell in less than two weeks! I'm stressed... being pregnant doesn't help either! EEEK!
I guess I'm just asking for prayer. I was really stressed out yesterday because everything just seemed be happening really fast for something that is a huge life change. Thankfully we had a meeting lastnight with a financial planner and we decided that the best thing would be to wait until this coming spring and start construction then.... that way we can have things like flooring, kitchen, bathrooms and everything else chosen well in advanced and not rush to figure it out this summer while we're living 2 1/2 hours away!
Please pray for my stress level... haha. Oh life... gotta love what gets thrown at you.
Hope you're all doing well.
Laura