Ok, the quick version for those asking:
We are attempting to move 'Home' to the town-house today. We have officially moved in or out of our home ten times we think over the last ten months :) Fun stuff! What a perspective on being here (planet Earth) temporarily... Anyhoo - here is our plan while we wait on the Lord to 'rescue' us by either A. getting us out of the town-house or B. by making it 'safe'....
RYLAND HOMES, after seeing in black and white that THEY are at fault from the last tests, still refuses to do anything to clean our house up/make it safe. For those wondering, the whole big fat problem seems to be that since we live in a model home the builder apparently thought it would be okay to leave parts of the house 'un-done'. They left a huge hole in the floor of our A/C closet right under the return. (Which has allowed debris, dust, outside warm humid air etc to be pulled straight up into our A/C thereby contaminating our ENTIRE HOME & Duct System. Providing an amazing source for MOLD to grow etc etc ) And they left a gaping hole at the top of the return duct in the same closet leading from the attic thereby allowing insulation/fiberglass into our A/C & duct system and allowing that wonderfully 'sickening' (pun intended) poison into my ENTIRE HOME. So....
We were left as of last Thursday night, when RYLAND finally responded to our requests for help, with the choice of somehow moving home anyways vs not. We have prayed about it and brainstormed and believe that one way to 'see' if we can ever live in the house again is to move home with portable A/C's running and about oh, 17 fans, and give it a whirl. (Which btw yesterday brought the downstairs down to a comfortable 88 degrees) This appealed to us as we are sick of moving and we need to know if we can ever live in the town-house anyways....
Here are a few random things to know---
- I went home yesterday to try and 'clean out' the house the best I can with out a few grand to hire a remediation company. I followed the protocol I found online the best I could (with the amazing help of Julie, Natalie and my mom..hooorrrraaayyy for helpers!)
- As mentioned above, we have not only sunk our savings (sorry Kaitlyn, it was her car money for one thing) BUT maxed out our only CC during our last move. Here is where things get sticky for me Faith-wise. I do not want to bypass what the Lord may want to do in our life and we are strongly against being in debt....it hurts my heart so much that we are again in BONDAGE over this and I second guess myself all the time...should we have just moved to Valdosta or ????. Ugghhhh, this is one area I am just not okay with..Debt Free is where I wanna be :)
- Even tho' I have now cleaned my home the best I could, because we are now hyper-sensitive to Chemicals/Molds our body may RECOGNIZE this home even with only minimal traces of contaminants and we may never be able to live there. grrrrr...Crazy huh?
- To fix the house for us we need to have the A/C deep cleaned and or replaced & the duct work replaced completely to be truly 'clean' as far as the A/C system goes. Think about this, we are in a town-house, 1/2 of the duct work is between floors---the ONLY way to replace it is to remove the 2nd floor sub-floor---sounds simple...right?
- Again, even if everything is done we may not be able to live their IF our bodies have 'deemed this home unacceptable' :)..imagine if we do ALL the work and still can't live there....
- We have already put (between us and the Insurance) over 30 thousand dollars into this home...
- Talked to several lawyers already---most wanted at least 10-15000 dollars as a retainer JUST to take the case..I'm sorry we don't have 10-15 bucks to give you let alone, THOUSANDS...
- We are praying and seeking whether or not to try and fix the home ('Fully' for our sake) on our own if no-one will take the case on contingency OR just to fix what has to be fixed for 'normal' people and juts try to sell it....which again will put us back with nowhere to live....hmmmmmm
- The above will still require money...hmmmmm...decisions decisions....
- IF we have to move somewhere else we are kinda back to square one, as we are now MCS (multiple chemical sensitive) so we will have quite the battle finding somewhere that does NOT make us sick!! BUT is this what the Lord wnats, do we want to move somewhere closer to where we will be in ministry?? Near downtown???? Hmmmmmmm........
- BOTTOM LINE---we now find ourselves in just the place we want to be..a place where we can not figure out the answer OR rescue ourselves...this battle is no longer ours..it belongs to the Lord, only He can rescue us..and that rescue may not look the way we want it to....BUT our BIGGEST prayer is 'Be Glorified' Lord...Find all the ways YOU want to make Your name known! If we have to move 38 more times and proclaim HIM through each one, so be it....we are no more deserving of a nice clean home than millions of people worldwide who have no safe place to be....we want HIS will wayyyyy more than our way....
So, that is the quickest nut shell I know how to do....if you are a Christ follower we covet your prayers in this desperately..we feel like God is giving us a new /fresh start in ministry..we are ready to face the giants (by HIS Spirit alone) and know that warfare comes w/the territory..so, scared to death, YES, but the battle is not ours...we are MORE than conquerors when we rest in HIM and the victory is already won from His viewpoint....we LOVE our God and want to be pleasing to Him alone....
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