Some progress, some hoping, lots of worry...

With trepidation we all dredged off to the meeting we had this afternoon. It was with this lovely woman Beth Ann at a wonderful organization called Family Promise. She was able to help by showing us options we missed, discussed shelter options, offered different job seeking ideas,showed us how to go about getting Kelly in school while we are still homeless and even made some great suggestions for Kate Lynn perhaps going to college! At the end of the meeting she had us follow her to a gas station so that she could put gas into the truck. With out the truck we would be in very big trouble! It is how we make all these appointments, look for work and housing and more importantly...keep the cats! So that was our progress and our ray of hope. Our worry is that tomorrow the money from the benefits will NOT be in there! With that money we are so hoping that we will be able to make the arrangements to move into the house we are looking at. Through family promise we would even have furniture by tomorrow evening. It has been such a struggle, I can not even put myself into the place thinking we could be into our own place by tomorrow night! That would be our Christmas Present! If it doesn't happen, well then we are looking at staying at the Salvation Army Shelter. My heart breaks at the thought of being in a shelter at Christmas! We continue to pray as a family, hard! I have to be truthful and say that every one's patience is wearing thin and this situation is making us pessimistic and grouchy! Tomorrow we have to be up very early, pack the truck (AGAIN!) and head off to aDoctor's appointment for Shawn and if God so allows maybe, just maybe we will be moving into our new house!  Just 3 days before Thanksgiving we walked away from it all to try and start a new life for our family, how awesome would it be to be celebrating Christmas in a place of our own, starting that new life we set out for?!