Hey ya'll.............half of our house is almost finished.  Still have the living room, dining room, kitchen and bath to go.  Maybe by next week we can actually sleep in the house.  Let's all shout hooray!!!!!!!!!!

 

Say a prayer for sanity.

Before I get started, yes I am grateful for all that I have and yes, I am better off than about 90% of the people in the world.  I am soooooooooooo tired of people telling me that; I know that God has blessed us greatly in so many ways.  It seems that I can never say how frustrated I am about this whole hurricane situation without someone always telling me that a lot of people are worse off than I am.   I KNOW THAT!

It has been 6 months since we have lived in our house and sometimes I feel like it will be another 6 months.  Our insurance company quit paying the rent on our trailer and FEMA has  us still listed as Spanish and not legal citizens even though we have called, faxed, and been to their office.   The guy I spoke with two weeks ago told me that we must have been lost in the system.  Good to know. 

It cost $1.10 a square foot to install sheetrock and the insurance company paid us 28 cents a square foot.  You have to find them to fight with them.  We have had over 15 adjusters since the hurricane.  If they woukd get their act together, they could save a whole lot of money.

Since I am venting anyway,  my husband is on disability.  He has so many physical problems and is in such pain.  Please pray for him.  I love him but lately he is driving me crazy..........maybe it is from living in that little trailer.  I have power of attorney because he doesn't see or hear well.  Not that he did much decision making before but now he doesn't make any decisions.  Guess he figures it is all up t me.  But then he gets outdone if I make a decision and he doesn't like it (which he doesn't let me know until things are over).

I do have a pretty good life and most of the time I am pretty happy.  I am so grateful to God for all that I do have and I don't mean just material things.  I have a wonderful family that I love dearly.  I have a home, a job, food to eat, my grandkids and a wonderful garden and I am God's child.

So anyway I hope you understand that I am just letting off steam and I feel so much better having written this.  Please pray for us.

 

 

Hey everybody!  We survived Hurricane Katrina!!!!!
   Our house got flooded and we lost the furniture and stuff.  Every one of my neighbors trees fell into my backyard (none on my house).  We have so many trees that we can not walk off of the back porch.  The house is full of mold and mildew.  I can't describe the horrible stink from the refridgerator!  The freezer was full of blood with scum on top of it.  It had been sitting there without power for over two weeks.
 We are staying with my son and his family in LaPlace for now.  We got electricity back on last night at our house in Kenner.  So, next week we are going to start tearing out the sheetrock and bleaching the woodwork and floors.  If we get all the mold out, we can stay there while we fix it up.
You have to stand in line for everything here and every store has armed military in them.  Everything closes at 6pm.  But it could be a lot worse.  For awhile you couldn't buy any meat or refridgerated stuff.
 I am so trully blessed.  I had wonderful family to live with us when we first evacuated.  My nephew, Raymond, and his wife Heather and their kids took us in for a week.  Got to see some of my family that I don't see too often.  Then we came here and are staying with my son.   We rode up to Ville Platte to see our youngest son and met his wife's family.  We had such a great time.  They have horses and a swimming pool.  We couldn't get the grandkids to go home.
  I am so thankful to God for all that we have.  My family is still alive and well, we have food to eat and a place to stay.  I pray that all of you have the same and more.