Life before 2008 23 Jun 2006 10:24 am
Ten After 11 and I might finally catch my breath.
No closing today. Seems Insurance Guy (why did I see this coming?!) didn’t get Important Paper Work to the Proper Authorities in time for our appointment today. There may be an arrangement where we can move in before closing, meaning our plans for tomorrow will be intact but at mid-day Friday we still have No Idea either way.
But wait! There’s more! Included in your Not-Too-Unusual Moving Situation Weekend is a primo, nearly exclusive Insurance Headache! Remember the Small One, now 5, Major Overcomer of Medial Trials and Tribulations? Well he has Pre-Existing Conditions! That means that your new insurance, to go into effect September 1, will not want to cover what he Goes To the Doctor For. UNLESS you get the certificate-thingy that says he’s been insured before. No problem right? Well, from what it looks like now, that certificate-thingy is null and void if he goes 63 days without insurance. Which, without either: impossible UPS schedule maintained all summer OR incredibly expensive COBRA, he will.
So, pick your poison: Keep UPS job with hours that mean you see your husband/father a few mintues each morning and on Sundays? Find some way to afford COBRA, which probably means keeping second job, which of course would negate the purpose of COBRA in the first place? Keep UPS for a few more days, get the surgery over with, and hope and pray that he’s fine for YEAR? Or, if UPS can’t work out what they say they would, hope and pray the hearing loss doesn’t continue and you don’t end up with a deaf child thanks to a treatable yet unaffordable condition?
Makes wondering where we’ll hang our hats by weekend’s end seem like a puny concern.
I’ve got stacks of bills to get in the mail, meal planning to do (but for what scenario?!), crabby kids (one of which continues to make blow-guns out of every single tubular object he can find), grocery shopping, laundry, new chick box to get (since they may be in a brooder a whole nother week), some mystery dog came and did his business on my back porch, nothing but TV for the kids because our life is in boxes (unless we go out and spend money which can’t keep happening every single day for cryin’ out loud)….
So, it’s a hairy day. One way or another it will work out. Or, we’ll disconnect our phones and internet and not be able to be reached with problems this weekend. So many scenarios, so many possible solutions. Just rearrange the cards and keep it all straight. A friend used an analogy yesterday: one mango short of a brain smoothie. I feel it sistah.
on 23 Jun 2006 at 10:55 am 1.gigi said …
Oh Tia,I am so sorry…it seems like the saying goes ‘it never rains but it pours’ I have been praying for a smooth transition weekend for you,sometimes we feel overwhelmed with problems and concerns, but as Christians, we have a calm harbor in Jesus to rest in and wait His direction.I am praying for Wheatie also.I love you….wish I could help in some way.
But the good news is…the good progress at the farm-soon we will see things going up !!
on 23 Jun 2006 at 10:57 am 2.Sandy said …
Well, as if packing and moving weren’t complicated enough! Sorry for the closing problems - hope you’re able to still move in despite it (and at least keep those plans intact!). And the insurance situation - gee, why do things have to be so complicated????? Praying for wisdom for that choice. Is working just until the lapse would be less than 63 days (1st week of July) possible?
Hang in there!
Sandy
Things have got to get better for your b’day tomorrow, right?
Happy Birthday wishes to you!
on 23 Jun 2006 at 11:38 am 3.Tia said …
Gigi~ Thanks for your prayers! That is good news about the farm isn’t it? Exciting progress. I”m praying for you as well. Please try not to worry. We’ll walk through our trials together and they’ll ALL work out, right?
Sandy~ Thanks for the encouraging words! I think there is chance that just working through the lapse would work ‘cept UPS hasn’t done the paper work in time and everyone we need to talk to seems to be on vacation this week! Birthday, shmirthday
There’s a knot in my rope and I’m hanging on! At least while I’m waiting for returned calls I can chill out for a few mintues
on 23 Jun 2006 at 1:42 pm 4.gina said …
Rah roe raggy! Not good. Are your landlords flexible as far as not charging another month’s rent? I suppose they have someone wanting to move in right away- sounds like this can only be the job of….Don dada da- GOD to the rescue! I will be really praying for this situation. As if moving with all your cute little chickens isn’t stressful enough eh? You should go rent a sad movie and cry, that would work:-) We always feel better if we cry:0) Take care!