Multi-Tasking

Will things ever slow down???

I have learned the skill of multi-tasking, but sometimes I think I am just too scatter-brained. Right now, I am listening to the news, making a Walmart list, burning a CD, and typing this blog!

Our lives have seemed busier than ever. I think we learn to live that way, it becomes the norm. We are still re-modeling our kitchen. Our cabinets should be installed by the end of the week.

I have an opportunity to go back to Mexico next week, and I can't pass it up! Originally, it was to be a medical trip: helping with kids having surgeries to repair clef palates. I learned late last night the surgeries have been cancelled. I have the days off work, so I am still going to go. I am joining a group from Kansas & north Texas and we will be working on the house in Monclova. It will be a ministry center to house mission teams who come to work in Mexico. My husband has to work, so I am traveling for the 1st time by myself. I will meet the group at the border, and follow them in, but I'll have to leave a day early to work next weekend.

For more information on mexico missions through Vision Ministries:
www.vmoa.info

Kitchen Remodeling and the Ex-Wife

I know I haven't been posting as often as I would like to. Our lives have been so incredibly hectic the last couple of months! I am hoping things are slowing down...

The kitchen remodeling is going much more slowly than I ever thought it would. We began the tear-out process over 4 weeks ago, and still looking at 1-2 weeks more. The walls are finally back up and the texture was sprayed yesterday. Hopefully, I will be able to call the cabinet maker in a couple of days to install! The cabinets have been ready for over 2 weeks! I am not really much of a cook, and can't say that I LOVE cooking, but I am really tired of eating out! It is time to wrap this thing up!

On a totally different note, my husband's ex-wife will be moving back to the area next week. This has been expected because of a job transfer we knew about months ago. There are pros and cons to the situation. It is a good thing to have his youngest daughter closer to us. We are hoping to be involved in her life more than when she lived a hundred miles away. The ex still has a tendency to rely on my husband more than she should, but because she has the youngest at home with her, we try to have compassion. We both agreed to loan her our old pick-up truck and trailer for moving. I went and picked her up yesterday so she could drive the truck home to move here next week. I only had to go 15 miles with her, but it seemed like much longer. Above and beyond, if you ask me!

Today, I am at work, and I get a phone call from my husband saying someone hit the truck in the parking lot of some store she was at!!! She hadn't had it 24 hours yet! She said she didn't notice it, but when she was at her friend's house, they noticed. I don't even know if she is telling us the truth. I am mad for several reasons. First of all, it is our old truck, but we have taken care of it and use it only for our mission trips to Mexico. We loaned it to her ONLY for her to use it to move next week! So why is she at the store, and at her friend's house in it? The insurance company says they will pay, under "uninsured motorist", but there is a $250 deductible. I am thinking she needs to pay the deductible! It should come back to us in the same condition that it was in when it was loaned out!

It just seems that we are always going out of our way to help people out and we continue to get punished for it. Always getting burned. Are we just too nice? I don't like being taken advantage of. Where should we draw the line?