AUTHOR: M. DATE: 5:56:00 PM ----- BODY:

1. My mother offered I. her credit card number this morning in case Nana kicks us out of her apartment on our butts and we have to go to a hotel or rent a car and drive to my parent's house, 12 hours away. I think this is a highly unlikely scenario but I appreciate the offer very much all the same. 2. The mortgage counselor who we met with this morning at the first-time homebuyer program had this to say: your credit is good. Your debt-to-income ratio is good. Your emergency savings is good. What you can afford right now is approximately $35,000 less than what you should expect to spend, unless you're willing to look at other neighborhoods (we're not). Okay. I can let go of this for a few months and not be a crazy person. There's hope: he told us what we need to make to buy what's out there, and it's not an unfathomable amount for when we go back to a 1:1 ratio of people to jobs in this family. 3. Our social worker is coming for her home visit in about a half hour. Isadora cleaned like a maniac yesterday. I am cooking what I hope will be an extra-yummy-but-not-fussy-or-pretentious dinner. And hopefully won't contain anything Leah is allergic to (wouldn't anaphylactic shock just punch a big hole in our home study?) Now I just have to not burn it. 4. I am hyper as hell right now and I need to calm the fuck down. I think it's because I went to that Thai place again and had one of those lethal-but-yummy Thai iced teas. I should know better, after what happened the last time. I'm going to try to sit on my tush for the next 20 minutes with these silly beings. They always do make me feel better.

-------- COMMENT-AUTHOR: Foxxy One COMMENT-DATE:9:24 PM COMMENT-BODY:AWWW Kitties always make everything better (said as one of mine is curled up next to me on the sofa). --------