A day in the life of us!

You would think that when you are homeless that you simply have NOTHING to do! In actuality we are very, very busy! We are usually up and out by 8:30am the latest. There are rentals to be looked at, job applications filled out, benefits to follow up on, there is lunch time at Walmart and it is usually there that we make and wait on lots of follow up phone calls! By the time we are actually ready to call it quits it is after dinner time! Trust me, this isn't a rambling complaint just a statement! On most afternoons we are re looking at our "stuff" and reconsidering if we really need an item. We have sold allot! That generally keeps gas in the car! We do lots and lots of driving on any given day! At night when we are at a motel (we figure out what is most edible in the frozen food aisle) we microwave some dinner, I spend an additional hour or so filling out additional job applications online, we watch some TV, spend some time on the PC and more often than not the girls and I play cards. When we have had the blessed fortunate to be staying with family we have enjoyed many wonderful home cooked meals!! I think that is one of the biggest things we are looking forward to when we get a place, home cooked meals! Trust me we have gotten very good at eating well in the car or at the hotel!! All though our tolerance for cheese and crackers has worn thin!! It is the easiest, fairly healthy and most portable snack! Thankfully Walmart has great salad kits, fruit, chocolate milk and juice, all covered by food stamps! We do splurge once and a while and pick up some cookies and chocolate snacks, we are traveling with 2 teenage girls!! Chocolate keeps the chaos to a minimum in the truck!! The only big draw back to our "picnics" in the truck would be our younger cat Trick. (our older cat Bear continues to hide under the seats!) Trick likes to come check out what we are all eating! Even if she doesn't get a taste, we have to deal with the cat fur! (Maybe we could shave them!?) I can not say much about the frozen meals, some have been OK and fruit, bread (and again!) cheese often rounds it off! The only other drawback to our, um.."lifestyle" is the lack of privacy! There is NONE for NO ONE! We are in the truck ALL day together, then we all share a room together! It is very fair to say at times we really get on one an other's nerves! I am very great full we are a close family or this whole thing might be truly unbearable! The girls have gotten pretty itchy with one another on some occasions, can not say I really blame them!  As I am typing this the 2 of them are all ready fighting over the amount of bed space they each get! These are the important things now! We find something to laugh about each and everyday, our sense of humors has definitely been our biggest asset! Everyday we learn more and more about the ins and outs of Montgomery! Prayer and our faith is the center of lives, it has to be! It is still my prayer that for Christmas we will have a place to call home! And that is a day in the life of us! :)