Daily Dose of Us

A COMPLETE LOSS!!! How does one even start to move on? We are so very thankful for the support system that we had during this unimaginable time. We had great friends, family, our insurance team and each other. The insurance team got to work right away and even forwarded us money to begin buying things like clothes and the necessities that were needed. So many donations came pouring in as well. Both of items needed and financial. It was hard at the time to take the help that we needed, BUT it was also humbling to realize how people felt about us and the fact that once we were able to giving back would be a top priority.

So I had part of my dream in the bar/restaurant and now we had lost the only home the boys have ever known. What a traumatic experience!!! I got to work, head down, buried in the sand work. I don’t think I fully processed what happened I just kept moving forward as that’s what needed to happen. The boys each dealt with it in different ways and we were there for whatever support was needed.

NOW the decision of where to live and what to do was knocking on the doorstep. Both for us to figure out and for the insurance company to know what we were going to do. We decided we needed to buy the bar and being closer to the bar would only make sense. At that time, things were quite expensive for building so…..I put my big girl panties on and knocked on the neighbors door to see if they would be interested in selling their home. Long story short, they were. So plans began for buying the house next to the bar and we continued to work on buying the bar as well. We signed on the house on March 15th of 2023 but agreed to wait till June to move in as both family had kiddos in school. So, we have a house to make a home………then April came.

Is it totally weird that certain things just stick in our memory? I can’t think of the exact date but I do know what I was doing when I got beat down again. I was cleaning at the bar on a Wednesday when in walked the man I was leasing from and his girlfriend. She handed me an envelope and I asked what it was. He said paper work. See the agreement had changed from buying into he wanted to lease to me for another year. So lease papers, right?? He didn’t come 3 steps in the bar and the girlfriend was way to excited for this. She had been doing a lot of his stuff lately. I put the envelope away for a bit, but something just kept telling me to open it.

A lease for another year??