A couple of small positives in the last couple of days. H finally dealt with a health insurance change--we are paying WAY too much and we finally drove down to the office and got a much better deal.

He's been putting that one off for months and the premium went up AGAIN. It has been on the top of my "to do" list for AGES and I finally got to cross it off! yeah!

We have had a strange bit of neighborly stuff going on--a teenager that was adopted by a family down the street was recently put out of her home and she is living with other neighbors. I had been hearing that the woman was nuts and that this girl was a really sweet girl. All A's in school, no trouble at all, just typical teenage girl stuff, and her "mom" was badmouthing her to everyone she could.

Seems they adopted 2 girls 6 years ago from the Ukraine. The younger one is the one they wanted, but at the last minute they told them they had to take the older sister. So the little one (who is now 12) is still in the home, but the older girl has been tossed! I cannot believe some people--this is a NICE girl!!!

So I talked to her a while last week, and she came by the house yesterday and my H is wondering what in the heck is going on. So I told him everything and he said if this girl needs to stay somewhere, she can stay here with us. The neighbors she is with are 2 guys (they are gay, and not a couple) and they are a bit nervous about keeping a 17 year old.


He made some phone calls to a friend of the family that did something similar with two boys a few years back and he got some advice on what we would have to do.

She was VERY nervous last week that the two guys weren't too sure of her living with them, but I stopped by yesterday for a chat with them all and they seem a lot better now--they are very good friends with an older couple that live next door that I have been friends with for many years, and the older couple is going to be helping them with some things, and then I told them we can help out too--so Friday night we are all going to go down to the "open mike night" at a local coffee shop.

So after my H did all that, he went to leave for work this a.m. and I said, sort of in a no-nonsense way, "I want a hug" and I gave him a hug and kiss. He seemed to think he deserved it.lol.