Sandy's come and gone...

Things were very stressful around here.  By the 5th day of being stuck inside the house it was a bit too much familly togetherness.  We had a tree come down, oddly between our cars and on top of another tree so no serious damage just trying to figure out how to dispose of the tree without paying a fortune.

In other news we're refinancing and cutting 300 dollars off of our monthly payment :-).  We have the joy of owning a house that is considered "under water" i.e.  we over-paid during the housing boom so the government came up with a way for people who did that could refinance and not go into debt.  BUT since our bank is doing a govt thing it's taking quite a long time to do  the refinancing.

AND, my husbands aunt in North Ireland passed away and her estate is divided between my husband and his uncle which is a nice sum that we can definitely use!  We're currently waiting for the check and to see if it's in euro's or dollars.  Howevery, that money is going to help us get our of debt and we are very grateful to Aunt Annie. 

Also the strong willed wonder is doing better, but when she doesn't get enough sleep all hell breaks loose.  In all honesty if she had been a more mellow child I would definely want a sibling, but she keeps us hopping constantly.  Often I think if we adopted again we could end up with a 2nd strong willed wonder and that would probably throw us over the edge.  Other moms have assured me that she'll mature and it will be easier.  I didn't grow up with a lot of kids, only have one brother, and maybe I didn't fully understand what was involved with being a parent which I desperately wanted to be.