So, the hubs talked to his mom a bit more yesterday. I’d like to say that everything is magically okay and fixed now but that is not the case. She did say she never meant to imply that we wouldn’t be able to pay her back (if she lent us the 50k). She asked us to give her 6 weeks to get this new loan straightened out as she thinks it will really work this time because her finance guy laid everything out for the bank (why in the crap didn’t he do that in first place with the first two loans?). We begrudgingly agreed to do so. I’ve waited three years for all this crap to be worked out, I will give her six more weeks, however we did try to stress that we don’t want to just keep hitting our heads against the wall if this loan falls through. I understand that she wants to keep the peace between my husband and his brother, but at some point when all the other options are done we are going to have to do what is best for the possibility of our future family.
I’m not a coddler so watching his younger brother get coddled and handled with kid gloves through this whole ordeal makes me want to scream.
We leave for our vacation next week and both the hubs and I are very much looking forward to it at this point. We are going to try to clear our minds of all the crap that has been going on and just enjoy the trip. We have a lot of fun activities planned and since we are road tripping there are numerous places we are stopping at (Las Vegas, Park City, San Francisco, Yosemite). It’s approximately a 30 hr drive there and then another 30hr drive back (that’s just drive time – not including stopping), so organizing everything and packing has been a bit of a headache. Especially considering how ridiculously organized I like being about everything. We did encounter some frustration with making plans for stuff to do with his family while we are in Cali with them. The hubs and I are the only “planners” in the bunch every one else figures out what they are doing pretty much the day they are doing it. So as it stands they may attend the activities we have planned or they may not – I tried to solicit ideas from others about things we could all do as a family but got pretty much no assistance. Not because they don’t want to do things but because they don’t plan things. We are going to be gone for two weeks, my parents have kindly agreed to stay at our house while we are gone as we didn’t want to try to board our dogs – they would flip out. Two week vacation but only one of those weeks will actually be in Cali with the in-laws the rest is time with just the hubs and I and if anyone deserves a vacation it is that man. He has been working an insane amount of overtime every week and his job is incredibly physical so he’s been pretty tired on his days off.
Not much else has been going on besides trying to get a bunch of stuff done prior to leaving. I’m debating writing a few posts to be published intermittently while we are gone for two weeks (assuming I can figure out how). I have a few posts that I have already written that I’ve been waiting for the right time to share so perhaps I’ll unearth a few of those, either way I’ll try not to just abandon my blog for two weeks – I always worry if I do that I’ll never come back to it or people will think I’ve abandoned it. Also, I’m going to attempt to do a lot of commenting for July’s IComLeavWe this weekend, we’ll see how far I get though – but I’ve found so many new and amazing blogs through it that I hate to not at least attempt to go down the list!
Why Not Us? 