High on life

Today, for some reason, life seems to be super good. 

 Not sure if it's just because I actually managed to get a decent nights sleep for the first time in a week, or because things are finally starting to look like they are settling down again (mind you, I'm always waiting on the other shoe to drop, but we do have moments where life is pretty darn good). 

The garnishment is ALMOST over.  One more check and it'll be done.

You know, looking back at the things we've dealt with in our relationship, the last year and all it's stresses were really NOTHING.    I got pregnant YOUNG (not 16 young, but younger than I thought I ever would).  Got married young.  We lived in a crappy falling apart house because the landlord was a dick and wouldn't take care of it.  We were given a 5 day eviction notice when I was BIG pregnant, and had to move a good portion of the house in the heat of the summer.  We lived in my parents kitchen and on their couch.  We lived on couches in friends living rooms.  We lived in a house that was falling apart.  We lived in tiny hotel rooms, and houses that can't even really be called houses.  We lived with three people in one room in a house full of people that have tempers hotter than hell itself.  We had houses ripped out from under us, lost jobs, and lost vehicles.  We fought for everything we had, and sometimes that wasn't even enough.  Sometimes it reall did feel like we would never get our heads above water, let alone find a way to dry stable land. 

And then we started to find the friends we have today. 

The friends that held out their hands and helped pull us back from the depths.  Who helped us with vehicles.  With cleaning up houses, and watching the kids while we worked, and keeping us sane when we thought we were going to lose it.  We discovered a friendship that's more than just that.  It's a family. 

We've had the same roof over our head for three years now. 
Ivy's been in the same school for three years now.

Ruben's been at the same job for more than that (i can never remember, lol)

We have food on our table and clothes on our back.

And that's more than a lot of people have these days.

So yeah, the last year has been hard.  It's been a pain the ass sometimes, trying to figure out how we were going to come up with rent to keep said roof over our head.  Trying to do whatever I could do to make it work so we wouldn't end up back where we were at the start of our marriage.  And we fought about it.  And we cried about it.  And we stressed so much it made us sick.  But in the end, it was always an amazing friend or family member who came to the rescue.  Either by giving us work to earn a little extra moneh.  Or by loaning us the money, knowing damn well they wouldn't see it until after the first of the year when we get income tax.  By giving us a car when we lost the one we had to a crappy company.  By keeping us sane when were just wanted to run and hide.  And just by being there for us when it felt like the world was leaving us behind.  I don't think I can ever say thank you enough.

I am beyond ready to find out about his check, lol.

But for now, I'm gonna turn on another episode of CSI: Miami on netflix.  I'm gonna curl up with my blanket and a bowl of popcorn.  And I'm gonna relax and enjoy this positive feeling I've got for the first time in a long time. 

LOVE YOU ALL. 
Thank you for all you've done.

LYZ