During the year prior, my husband had basically built the inside of the house, it was leaning, and many adjustments were made to joists, new flooring, new walls, new design, and so so much more. It was a real effort of love, sweat, and tears. Also in that prior year I'd lost my job, when I was 8 months pregnant which seems to be the start of a trend that I'll get into later.
Since then, we have been experiencing financial hardship. Mortgage hasn't been paid in a long time, and we have been doing all we can to get work and stabilize on some level while providing as nurturing an environment as possible for our two children. We just started coming out of this, and could afford to pay mortgage payments finally, though not the back payment. Our house was foreclosed upon last Friday, my husband was at the auction and nobody wanted the house.
I should mention the house is unfinished inside, next door to an illegally clear cut lot that will likely cause sliding on our property, and is hardly ideal in any way, except for us as it is our home.
Ownership has been transferred to Freddie Mae though as I found out today via the upper document on the picture above. Eviction proceedings have begun, and we need to contact this agent assigned to sell our house within the next 48 hours.
I started this blog because yesterday marked one month from the estimated arrival of the child growing and kicking in my belly as I type this. I am experiencing so many big good and bad things, that I need a place to share it. I'm not ready to be public about it yet in relation to my 'real' web presence (though I will likely import this into my established blog at a later point).
I don't want to move. I have a five year old in school, a two year old who spends most of her time during the day with me, and a garden that I love. I have told my husband and many other friends that the effort we have put into this house and making it liveable and ideal for us has resulted in a warm fuzzy "hug" feeling whenever I walk into the front door. I really do love this trashy place and will always have fond memories of watching my husband creating what it is.
I am also planning on having a home birth, one that I have fantasized about since conception in the lovely tub that we have here which is one of those big deep footed tubs. My eyes are wet just writing that, it is something I have wanted for a long time. I remember back when renovations started the tub was almost given away, and I insisted we keep it for that reason.
I love watching my girls bathe in that tub, I enjoy bathing in it, and we have even managed (when I was smaller!) to all fit into the tub together for a 'family bath' of sorts.
My garden too is something I have put a whole lot of effort into. I started back when we first got married, so before we actually moved in and it's my third year of planting, harvesting, and enjoying the fruits of that labor with my family. Prior to this I had always been in apartments and being able to have land to cultivate has been a dream come true. I have even written about the therapeutic benefits of it that I have experienced.
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