Another One of those Hiatus Things...

so, life got turned upside down. severely.

our house was broken into in the middle of the day on june 26. e was out of town at a training session and jp's godmother was visiting us. we had gone swimming and came back to find all of our valuable belongings piled up in our living room, some things stashed into one of our own duffle bags, and the master closet and dresser ransacked.

it was the 4th in a string of break ins that occurred in houses that all backed up to one area of woods. the woods, in our case, lined the side of our house, and they used the windows on that said of the house to escape. they had previously stolen gaming systems, a few other electronics, and most recently, guns.

we had, from what we could tell, interrupted them. their modus operandi appears to be that 3 of them break into a home, one keeps lookout while 2 pile everything into one place and then a vehicle comes for them to load into. we got home before the vehicle arrived and thus nothing was actually stolen from us.

except our sanity and sense of security. the knowledge that these people had broken into 4 homes that were all within .25 miles of each other, that it took police officers more than 15 minutes to respond to our 911 call, that no pictures, evidence, or notes were taken at our home by the police, that the perpetrators had stolen weapons a few days prior, that our house was chosen because of its attachment to the woods, and that they now knew everything e had worth stealing in our home added up to an irrefutable fact for me: we could no longer live there.

we checked into an extended stay hotel until e could come back home and began working out the possibility and logistics of moving. our landlord, sherry corona of remax prime realty in columbus, ga, was an unbelievable grace. she let us out of our lease and showed us another home that we could move into, one that she still managed and one that was miraculously VERY close to 7 other families in e's company. it was also a solid 10 minute shorter commute to work. we began moving in with the help of people we barely know on june 30.

we were moved in by july 4 and due to some difficulties and at&t's HORRIBLE customer service, we have been without internet until today.

the few times i've been able to haul a computer and my child to a place with wifi, the blog simply wasn't a priority!

so let's do a quick catch up- we have a new home. jp has been in speech therapy for a month and seems to be making some progress. he is still as happy and goofy as ever.

e is loving his job and his company and is looking at deploying some time between november and april. we shall see!

i am 37 weeks pregnant as of tomorrow and baby calvin is due any day now! we're ready and then.... well... not so ready haha! it's been an upheaval of a month and things are finally settling down. we'd like to enjoy the calm for a few more weeks if we can, but the baby certainly has a plan of his own :)

sorry this isn't longer or more explanatory, but i would like to cut my losses with the old house and move forward from here, so that's precisely what i intend to do with the blog as well :)