woes

In some ways this week has been fantastic and in others it's been..."craptastic" (obscure Late Night w/ Conan reference that maybe only my husband will appreciate).

The home buying process has been going surprisingly well. The sellers haven't responded to our repairs addendum formally, but have already fixed most of what we requested. Major surprise! Our funding is going well, the appraisal process should be done by the end of the week and then off to underwriting. Oddly enough, all these things started coming together more smoothly when I felt myself let go and let God watch over the process for us.

Malakai is developing by leaps and bounds! He's creeping across the floor and keeping me on my toes. He's also babbling a lot of new sounds and really developing a fun personality. I love making him laugh.

you've got to be KIDDING me!

Since our car got smashed in it's literally been one thing after another. While I'm usually a "count your blessings" kind of person, sometimes it feels good to vent about what's going wrong. It's a good release to just get it all out and helps to move on...so

1. It's been over a week since our car got hit and Ben is just now able to take it in to the shop (like literally, as I type this he's driving the mangled mess over there)
2. He's lost at least 6 hours of work in speaking with the insurance people, securing a car rental, taking the car in for an estimate, waiting at home for the insurance claims adjuster.
3. He was told by the original insurance representative that they would file a claim for lost wages and he would need to follow up with his assigned claims rep.
4. Said rep told us about 5 minutes ago that it's the law in the state of Oregon that lost wages can only be collected when there is an injury accompanied by a physician's note. 6 hours is a lot to us, especially this month because I'm not doing daycare with Henry's dad out of school on winter break- not to mention the expenses of the Holidays!
5. WE get our car smashed into and have to deal with lost wages, stress, and the myriad inconveniences and the guy who hit us is busy trying to get his company to cover it instead of his personal insurance since he was coming into work (give me a break dude!)
6. The claims adjuster gave us an estimate that is about half of what the collision repair shop estimated. We noticed that they included three different used parts but our shop says that it's not safe to replace safety features (i.e. a car bumper) with used parts.
7. Just got a call from Ben and the collision shop won't take our care because it's "driveable" as opposed to needing to be towed and if it sits there while they order the parts the insurance company could charge them for our rental. They didn't tell us this until Ben drove all the way across town.
8. The parts for our car won't come in for another two weeks, so our car will be sitting in our driveway until then and in the shop for at least a week more once it's getting worked on.

Okay...deep breaths. I know things will work out and God has a plan but this is driving me a little crazy right now!

our only car

now looks like this-

while visiting my sister at her dorms last night, our car got smashed into by the cleaning guy. He blames it on trying to balance hot coffee while parking. He also smashed into part of a building we were parked next to. I'm just praying that it gets taken care of fast and that the rental we get is something comparable and safe enough for my little bean. I also thank God we weren't in the car - it happened minutes before we walked outside to go home.
That's all for now- I haven't done laundry for like a week...whoopsies!