Homeless Blogger

Wow - so the past several months have been CRAZY. Partly crazy because of the upheaval of our lives, and partly crazy because I just feel crazy. Things really never go as planned, which makes me feel like, why have a plan??

Spencer has been working almost non-stop on our house for the past almost 11 months, and probably even more feverishly the past couple months. We expected to be finished and all moved-in sometime in October. Spencer has been under incredible amounts of stress, both physically and mentally, which doesn't help me at all since my lack of him only adds to my own stress and sometimes depression. Sometimes I really wonder why we decided to build a house this way because it has been very hard. At the same time, I have to remind myself to not be such a complainer because after all I am getting a new house!

So back to the thinking that we would be moved-in sometime in October. Things were really going pretty well on the houses so naturally we put in our 30 days to our landlords for the end of October thinking that would give us plenty of breathing room for moving etc. However the closer and closer the end of October came the more likely it seemed that we would not be able to move in. The problem was, that our antsy landlords also happened to fill our apartment with new renters starting November 1st. So regardless of not having a home to move into yet, we had to move out of our apartment on Halloween.

Since then we have been staying up in freezing cold and snowy Kamas, with Spencer staying some nights with my brother Joel in Provo to stay closer to work. It hasn't been TOO bad up here really, I just get really bored sometimes and very anxious and upset that we STILL can't move into our perfectly new and finished house. We are essentially homeless and that is kind of hard. Oh, and the reason that our house is completely finished and HAS been for a week or more but we still can't move in is because when our development was getting created there was a little portion of road down at the dead end that was never finished. However, the city is forcing them to finish the road before they will issue occupancy permits to anyone. What is frustrating is that they knew the road had to be finished and had ALL SUMMER TO DO IT! But did they? NO! And now they are making all of these families wait to move into their homes until it is finished - which was supposed to be today but because of the weather probably won't be until tomorrow. I cannot even explain how frustrating this whole thing has been - just suffice me to say that I would never do it ever again nor would I encourage anyone else to do it. Moving out of our apartment was stressful enough but not even having a home to go into was tons harder. I'm sick of Rural Housing development, supervisors that don't communicate, lazy subcontractors, and city governments and all the bureaucracy that goes with all that.

Someday all the frustration will go away I'm sure. I'm just so ready to finally be in our own home where we will be free to do what we want, and where I feel like I can really start taking care of my family the way I've always wanted to. Plus having Spencer around occasionally will be wonderful. Anyway, everyone pray that they will give us our keys in the next day or two. Maybe then I'll feel more capable of re-engaging myself into the blogging world again.

I will admit I've been trying to keep my mind off of things today as I have finally succumbed to my mothers urging, as well as others, to start reading the Twilight series. So I've done it - today in fact. So we'll see how it goes, but I have a feeling that I had better read quickly or we'll never get things moved into our house!!!!