Category: Journal
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Moving on
Laura found herself entangled in a series of concerns with the kids over the course of the day. She should have broken away to take care of herself but she just pushed herself. She concluded that we needed to move on from Chandler soon. Savannah also voiced her frustrations with Chandler. With Chandler off tomorrow…
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One down
We finally finished of one of our major milestones. We bought the Subaru Outback that we looked at from Saturday. After a weekend of working through potential concerns Ken and I talked while Ken went through the details of the vehicle history. Afterward he still recommended the Subaru Impreza that we didn’t drive but I…
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Who did sin?
Laura came to church today. I brought her up without telling the kids and she sat separately in sacrament meeting (so as not to be overwhelmed by clamoring kids). After church I took her back down and later Emma and Isaac each got visits with her. In the evening I talked to her to share…
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Car hunting day
Today or main goal was to look for a new car. I wanted all wheel drive and Laura was more and more set on a Subaru. We don discovered that car lots had virtually nothing of value in our price range. We did manage to have a car from Mark Miller Subaru die on us…
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Forward Ho
Work was a bit hectic today as I had a couple of calls that needed to be handled. After I got home I had another one. I didn’t manage a nice, quiet on-call week. It hasn’t been too bad though. Laura had lunch with Julie Smith and Julie is considering letting Laura stay in her…
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Articulating a vision
Laura was stuck at home today because she left her keys in the floor of the van last night. She pulled thoughts together from her recovery journal abs infrared that she was ready to look forward toward the future. After some misunderstanding on my part she clarified that she was looking to create a description…
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Pressing forward
At her appointment today Laura talked with her therapist about her living situation and the therapist said that Laura should find a new place to live before they meet next week. As I review my journal I see that I failed to mention on Sunday that Laura’s struggled with Mom’s house led me to suggest…
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Give your very best
I showed the kids the death crawl scene from Facing the Giants and explained to them that even if their best effort was much less than the ability of another they will only be held accountable to their ability. On the other hand no matter how great their ability, of they give up before they…
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Money, money, money
I tried to make the adjustments to our budget for this year only to discover $4000 more debt in the last two months. Upon closer inspection it is all legitimate ($1000 in car repairs for example) but it sure is hard to get ahead like that. We can get it all paid off with minimal…