January 29, 2020
The First part of this Blog is about us.. If you'd rather just skip down.. you will see a Lolita update towards the end....
Today marks 2 years since we lost our beautiful home. I've replayed the day in my head a hundred times. I've had nightmares about it MANY times..
Its still seems unreal.
I will never forget what it felt like to have to walk away from a place you've lived for 18 yrs. The home we were so proud of. I still remember the first day we saw the house. We were So excited. The second we walked in the door Paul & I knew it was gonna be OUR new home. I remember how proud my Mom & Dad were of us when we showed it to them.
I am glad they didn't live to see our world fall apart. I know they would of really been upset for us, and maybe even a bit disappointed too...
Paul use to have an amazing job. He made great money. We had perfect credit and a savings and checking account. We took trips, we could buy things.. We never paid anything late.. Everything was great...
But things can change and things can go down Hill VERY quickly.. Never EVER take the life you have for granted.. I often did and I am sorry for that..
I still cry for MANY of the things I had to leave behind.. not only things like our beautiful sectional couch and my china cabinet, and my nice blender and alot of plates and pots and pans, plus some of our clothes... but tons and tons of personal items. Collectibles that Paul had bought me for my Birthday & Christmas over the years. Beautiful wall hangings from The Bradford Exchange. The tiny little Rudolph Knick Knacks that we painstakingly searched all over for finding them one by one to add to the collection..
Collectors plates, stuffed animals... so much that was part of who we were.. All gone. .. tossed to the curb..
Many have asked WHY we left so much.. The reason is simple..
We only had 1 small Truck... (for one day) I only had so many boxes and only so much newspaper to wrap things in.
At the time we lost our home we only had $8 in our checking account. No cash, No Credit cards....
We had No one that would loan us money quickly to get us more packing supplies..or help us get the Truck for another day....
Everything was packed up quickly. .. trying to take the most important and necessary things for sure and they were packed away in a small storage unit..
Nothing else we could do...
I remember driving away from the house with our van packed up and the Girls with us thinking.. "this didn't just happen" It was like a horrible dream..
That night we spent it out in our freezing cold van. The temp. was about 25 with wind chills nearing 10 degree's Fahrenheit.. I didn't really sleep. Paul slept on and off..
I would turn the Van on for 15 minutes or so to warm it up.. then turn it off for 10 or so minutes to save gas.... all night long that went on.
I just kept replaying things over and over in my mind.. I cried so much..
I can't even really describe the feeling of fear, desperation and shame that I felt. Its the oddest feeling in the world to have NO HOME...
I hope NONE of you EVER have to face that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The next day we began our search for a place to live.We sat in Dunkin Donuts with pauls Lap top checking out sites for Help..
It was by a blessing from God that many of you came to us...
You reached out and lent a hand to get us out of that Cold Van and into a Hotel for 17 days while we looked for a home for the 5 of us.. It was NOT easy!!! NO shelter would take the dogs..
No low income rental units through the Government or State would allow the dogs.. No churches .. 1 dog sure... some said 2 dogs ok... 3 forget it..
We kept hearing the same thing over and over... "Surrender the Dogs( or a dog or 2) to Animal Control" that was NEVER EVER gonna happen..
We'd live in our Van forever if we needed to before we would of done that.. They are our kids!!
But Thank God we found this home...
I will continue this story next month.. to coincide with when we moved here..
Hope this didn't bore you too much..
It helps me some times to talk about it ... I know that sounds strange...
Lolita Up date....
I really appreciate so many of you asking how Lita is doing. It means the world to us!
Right now she is on 1/2 a predisone 1x a day.
Sadly the lump on her Lymph node has gotten bigger.. infact, its the biggest its ever been.. :(
This worries me alot... However....... She is doing good..
Still eating.. still keeping her weight right around 72 pounds.
Still likes the park and still likes riding in the van.
Still happy when her Daddy comes home..
Only thing is, she pants a bit more and needs to pee a bit more (from the Meds) Other than that you would never know anything was going on. We continue to take it one day at a time and pray she keeps doing good.
We hope she will be with us for a long LONG time yet!
We have an appointment set for Crystal for her blood work and check up on February 10th. We have to come up with $200 bucks for that darn thing.. not sure how we are gonna do it.. If you can pitch in, we sure would appreciate it greatly.
(( Paypal Jaybellfan1@aol.com )) the Vet will NOT allow any more of her Seizure meds (which run out on 2/13) until she has this stuff done~~
We have such a tight budget and any thing that throws extra money in the mix really messes everything up.
We have to get our van in also cause the Front defroster/heater is acting up again.. it was working for awhile, but now is off again. Its very dangerous to drive around when your front window is fogged/iced up... :(
not sure what that is gonna cost us....
We really appreciate it when we get stuff off our Amazon list too!!
Its a HUGE HUGE Help.. Its amazing how just a bag or 2 of dog food ( or bird food ) now and then can really help lighten the load!
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/HQHTX5IWD74Z?ref_=wl_share
Hope everyone has a great rest of the week.. and we will be here again a bit later in February unless something changes.
Love from us all.....
