Hope and heartache

[ClingingToHope]

Woke up late and the girls and their two friends are running wild a bit. Neighbors put a note on the door that all of the running up and down the steps is a bother.

So I had to tell everyone to keep it down. That made D10 a little mad because I included her in the warning. She said she wanted to go home and I told her to get her stuff.

She thought about it and apologized. She didn't understand why she had to be included in the warning.

What upsets me is that I am living here in a townhouse -- although it is a nice one -- while W enjoys the house we put so much time into. It's going to be interesting once we do get D how she's going to react to being out of la-la land.

She's going to have to take on a lot of the family debt and we'll be lucky to sell the house for what we owe. So she'll have no assets after the D, no down payment, to buy a house.

I know she's run up some bills since I moved out. She's been searching sites such as LowerYourBills.com and such.

She keeps telling the girls they'll just buy a smaller house. She may be able to rent a house -- although that's doubtful -- a house for rent in a good neighborhood in our school district probably costs as much as our mortgage.