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Well, at least now we have some progress in the whole DD21 saga. A bus ticket has been purchased and she is headed this way next week.

Finishing up getting the room ready today, doing laundry and housework so that I can focus on my Ebay listings tonight...the need to make extra money is now more urgent. I'm still not sorry that I quit the 2nd job, however. I needed to be home more, and Ebay is my only option for making extra money from home.

Off to the trenches...

Not much to say at this point, other than things are at a standstill. DD21 is still stranded 700+ miles away, and has exhausted nearly all resources for getting a bus ticket up here. I'm not in any position to help - not for the next few weeks, anyway, unless a miracle happens. She is asking her dad tonight for help, but I'm not holding out much hope. He's REALLY not happy with her right now, and I understand why...but she's still his child. We'll see how that goes, but I'm not expecting much.

I'm listing like a fiend on Ebay right now to try and make some extra money, but it's slow coming. I'm going to research some options online today for possibly getting her a bus ticket based on the fact that she is essentially homeless until she gets here. She can only stay with the ex-bf's parents for so long - they are on a limited income and can't afford to support her.

Ugh...the situations they get themselves into sometimes...frustrating. (sigh)

Well, here I am at home on one of my last mandatory days off. Call it a mandatory furlough day, or whatever you want. It's a day off without pay. But, not without a certain amount of benefit to me!

Today I will work on preparing the empty bedroom upstairs (vacated by DS11 who moved to his dad's this summer) to make it ready for DD21, who is moving home, and is very likely pregnant. (Pregnancy will be confirmed once she arrives by home test AND a doc. appt.)

I hate uncertainty. I really, REALLY like to know what's headed my way in the future when possible. I realize that's not always possible, but having something like this dropped in my lap, not knowing when DD21 is arriving...not knowing if she actually IS pregnant...not knowing where, how, when she will get a job....trying to figure out how on earth to afford all this...

I guess sometimes I let things get to me too much, and I go a little overboard. I just have to take this one day at a time...one minute at a time...because I really have no other choice. But when every e-mail and every phone call brings some new twist to this situation, it makes it a little overwhelming. Just when I think it's all settled and things will go THIS way...I get another phone call and suddenly they've reversed course and are headed in a totally different direction.

But...that's life, I guess! Just when you think you've got a handle on things, that you're juggling all you can, and fairly successfully keeping all the balls in the air, someone throws you something else to juggle - and sometimes it's a bowling ball!

Ok, so I didn't get the fall pictures posted yet. I know, I know. They're actually on my camera, waiting to be posted. I'll get to it - maybe before the snow flies?

Right now I have bigger fish to fry, so to speak.

Isn't it amazing how life changes so quickly from one day to the next?

One day, you're a single parent, one kid at home, one adult kid out on her own, and one living with the other parent...

The next, you're a single parent with one kid at home, one living with the other parent, and one adult kid dumped by a loser boyfriend, very likely pregnant and headed back home to live with you.

And life takes on a whole new, more interesting meaning...

I need this page for Christmas cookies! My last attempt at royal icing was a flop.

Cheap is good!

Oh wow...I remember this magazine from YEARS ago - my parents used to get it! Kind of like Mother Earth News, lots of great ideas and suggestions for rural living. So glad to find this site!

One of those more difficult recipes I'd like to try sometime...not sure I'd eat it myself, looks too rich, but fun to make!