Home But Waiting Again

So it’s been a little over a week that the kids and I have been back in MO. We’re staying with friends in Kansas City and I have to say that while I’m grateful for the opportunity to get out of the shelter where we were it’s still not our own home. We have our own space and our belongings – it sure is nice to sleep in my own bed after almost a year – but my friends don’t have cable so I’ve got no Internet access unless I go sit in McDonald’s parking lot or at the mall to use the free Wi-Fi connections. I’m going to check with Comcast on Thursday to see about getting a wireless modem and then just take it with me when I get my own place, which I hope will be soon.

After checking with the Independence Housing Authority I’ve found out that the waiting list hasn’t moved yet and they’re still working on applications from last June and I applied in August. I also had to reapply to Hawthorne Place, where we used to live, because the property manager who’s there now wasn’t there when I applied last year so she can’t review my application. This sucks. Without Internet I can’t work for Ursula like I’m supposed to be doing and without my own place I can’t really look for work because I don’t know yet where I’ll be living. I really need the Universe to speed things up for me so I can figure out which steps to take next.

I did enroll the kids in summer school, it’s optional here, and gives the kids something to do during the day for a month. Zach and Dolly were and still are excited to be going but Ty fought me on it for a day or so. He just doesn’t want to go but I really don’t have a choice. He’s got nothing to do sitting around the house all day every day and summer school is going to be at their old school so he’ll see his old friends and teachers, something familiar to make him feel more comfortable. He’s okay with going now so I’m at ease with that. I’ll have to drive them to and from every day, though, because we’re not in the district right now. I just have to do what I have to do.

I also got my van tagged, via mail, before I left NY, and got it inspected right after I got here. I also had to re-test for my license since it was expired for a while before we got back. Shh…don’t tell anyone. J I’m 100% legal now, though, so I feel better about that. And the kids and I attended the PACT group that we’d attended for four years before we left. We’d stopped by CAPA one day just to say hello and the kids all asked if we could attend PACT so we did. They liked it and want to continue going again. The group has changed in the way it was run since I was last there, and there isn’t anyone but staff that I recognize, but it was nice all the same. Just one more thing on the side of familiarity.

In any case, I’m sitting at a friend’s house using the Internet here just to check in with you all and let you know that things are still moving for the kids and me. Fingers crossed please that we’ll get a call for our own home soon and that we can move forward with our lives. After living like this for the past two years I definitely need a place to call my own, where I’m responsible for all the bills and can set the rules as I see fit. Thanks for hanging in there with me and I’ll be back as soon as I get the time. Once I get into my own home and/or have constant Internet access I’ll begin writing about the journey that got us back here; in the meantime I hope all is well for whomever is reading this and that the Universe is providing everything you need when you need it. It does for me.

Until next time…peace to all.