A Batty Life

So….what happens now?

Friday the 22nd around 11:25 I met up with one of the neighbors working cafeteria duty. He greeted me with the usual,”Umm Hi Battys”, yes it was just myself. Anyway, After the hello there was a pat on my right arm, and ho hum smile and then he said something that has changed life for me since then.
He said, “sorry about the news, is there anything I can do?” Of course there was no need to answer such a silly question considering the nose blow after the question told me he was just being diplomatic. I did however follow up with a, “What? What news?” and he pauses and says,”Your foreclosure… the one I saw in the paper… this morning”.
At that point I can’t tell you what happened because I think I left my body for a moment…and I liked it.

It was that moment when I came to, when reality hit. Although strangely this was something I knew was a possibility for an entire year now,since Chris had lost his job. Yet I had no idea it would really happen.
I guess its like when you tell a child to wear his helmet and they say OK and sneak off and ride without it, never imaging that they can hit a small pebble and get a bad boo boo,
(trying not to bring you down too much here with the analogies…)
Anyway this time I went out without my helmet,and screw the pebble, I hit a brick wall!
You never think it could happen…and then it does.

I have to say though this plane has been going down for a while at a nice pace.
I mean if it wasn’t for the Elementary school and some other beautiful people we would never have had Thanksgiving or Christmas. We are blessed, and although we have always been the type of people that some people really like, but for some reason tend to stay away from, this year we were shown love in such an amazing way.
After that I have been grateful and ready to take whatever is thrown at us, and if the plane is going down we are all going to be together singing and smiling through it, after all I was Mickey Mouse dammit!

But…. lately there is that voice of reality in the back of my head…what happens next? Where will you go? Is the world really that cold that we would just get forced out of our home? Can we all stay together?….

I’ll let you know….

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