10 Weeks

Its been a while since I posted anything on here. Its been busy and very hectic. Well, I have reached week 10 of my pregnancy. Course sometimes I feel like I'm not pregnant at all. I have another appointment on November 5 and I do hope he/she is growing. I think we are ready for this new change and sometimes I feel like we still like having our own time. Course who is ready for a child?

We have hit a rock bottom this week. I had to put down Duke. Reason being was his hip dysplesia was so bad that only surgery would help most of his pain but its not a guarantee of fix. Lowest cost would be $1300 and that is combining both sides of the hips ($650 one side, then another $650 on the other after 6 - 12 months after the first surgery). Another option would have been $5000 to get a total hip replacement. We placed him on pain killers but it got to where that wasn't helping much so we had to do the unthinkable. I really didn't want to but it got where he didn't want to eat much so we had no other choice. He had a good 2 years of life.

Another problem was that a pipe in our hot water plumbing started to leak. Course we have the old plumbing that was discontinued in the early 90's but we don't have the $4500 to replace all the plumbing. Hopefully one day we might or someone who gets the house next can do it. It would help the plumbing get back up into code. Andrew was able to do the fix so that way we don't have to worry much about it.

Friday morning I was surprised that someone (or few people) decided to be stupid an throw a rock at my truck window causing the driver side window to spider the entire glass (we have the safety glass so it doesn't shatter). Other people on our street were unlucky and had their windows broken out. Going to cost us over $300 to replace the window. We are really short on cash so this is not helping.

Then Andrew had to call me Friday night to put icing on the cake by telling me the Jeep we have got a flat tire and its where nobody can patch it up. He is going to find a way to patch it up and try to scround up some money so we can try to get another tire. We do need to replace all the tires since they are almost bald. Again, no money for a while. I was extremely stressed out that it happened. I have no idea what else to do.

We are probably going to sell Andrew's motorcycle and our glass dinette set. We are even looking into selling our house so we can try to save $$. Maybe see if my father wouldn't mind us crashing at his place for a few months so we can get things under controlled and find a place to rent that will allow us with four animals. Everyone is getting hit but we are trying to save ourselves now before a baby comes and add more problems with finances.

These are just ideas till we get things back under control. I ask for prayers as we try to get out of it. Andrew is working his best and he has a really good job and enjoys it as I am trying to find one after the baby is born. I was excepted to work as a correctional officer but I'm thinking I'll apply for the Air Force once I have the baby and get in shape. Anyways. This is the update as of now.