What just happened?

So my head is spinning and I can't help but wonder, "what just happened?" Here we were celebrating karneval enjoying our time here and next thing I know we are evicted out of our house and forced to move some place new. This has been a nightmare! We have been living in a temporary location for 2 weeks now and it seems that we are no further to finding a solution. The construction on the fire doors is being completed today and the house will cleaned Friday and Saturday. But we still don't know if that is enough to let us move back in. There is something wrong with our bedroom but no one knows what the problem is. How can that be? Everyone we ask says they have to check with someone and then they don't get back with us. How hard is it to find out this answer?

As for our house hunting it is a daunting experience. You have no idea how blessed and fortunate we are in the US when is comes to housing size and ammenities. I guess if you lived in a big city it would be similar, but to me I just don't know how people do it. So far we have been shown shoe boxes for houses. i can understand why Ikea is so succesful. Problem is we have our furniture here and can't afford to buy new Ikea creative furniture. Then it becomes a problem of the drive. The main highway here has been under construction for 3+ years and the sign says it will be completed in the end of 2012. When we first arrived it said 2011. As you can imagine it becomes a parking lot during rush hour and so we need to avoid it for Larry's commute (not easy). Then there is the problem of both kids going to different schools about 15 minutes apart. One house we looked at yesterday would have worked out, but I would be in my car from 1:45 to 5:00 everyday picking up and shuttling around the kids. And Larry would need to take the construction route of the highway. Next we looked at a place out in the country. It was nice but the people have lived there for 30 years and have so much stuff it will take them until June 1 to move out. Plus there is a pool. Nice idea, but with Landon impossible. And we would be isolated from everything. After that we saw a nice place if we only had one kid. There were 2 bedrooms total. The age difference between the kids makes it too hard for them to share. Landon gets into Ali's things and does great damage. Plus it would be difficult when we have visitors. Much of our furniture would need to go into storage.

So that is the scoop. The only places left to see are in the city with no yards for the kids, spiral staircases and parking issues. Larry is still trying to negotiate with the owner of the original house we wanted, so I will try to stay hopeful. With each passing day it becomes more difficult.

Here are a few pictures of what used to be our comfy living room.