Holding steady

We heard from the insurance company and now know that he will be meeting with the major claim manager on Wednesday to get our settlement approved.  We are looking forward to seeing that step completed so we can look to finding a permanent place to live and begin to replace what was lost. 

Knowing what needs to be replaced will be the next step. The restoration company and the inventory service will compile a report and let us know what is deemed lost. We will at some later date be able to go through the things considered 'lost' and determine what we want to keep and try to repair.  That will be a big task. After seeing it all in the storage classroom we realized we have a LOT of junk.  There may be a garage sale and large donation pile sometime in 2013.

On Wednesday, Southport Presbyterian Church hosted a cookie making party for my neighborhood. (Even though I don't live there anymore I still call it my neighborhood because we did not choose to leave. Someone else made that decision for us.) Lori and the girls went.

Molly and Lori mixing it up

Serious cooking

They brought back lots of cookies - they are really tasty.  The girls (all three of 'em) had a great time and had fun seeing the neighbors again.

I was told that all of the extra cookies were taken to the firehouse near our neighborhood that first responded to the explosion and did so much great work to control the chaos.  They were happy to have them and I know we are happy to give them a small token of our thanks.

Now begins the picture dump.

This is what our lot looks like now.

Here is a collage of the pictures of the house being built. Yes, those small girls are Molly and Betsy.  The pictures on the top left are the girls standing in the unfinished shower pretending to wash up.  The picture next to it is them looking out the window in the master bedroom.  The picture in the middle is the view from that window showing no houses south of us.  Soon enough, those lots will be empty again.

Betsy invited two of her friends to spend the night last weekend.  Usually they would all sprawl out on the couches and floor downstairs of the old house. In the new house they had to make do in Betsy's room.  Lori snuck in and took this while they were all asleep. I don't think Betsy knows this picture exists and I can predict her reaction when she sees it.

Have a great weekend!