Dominican Housewife Chronicles - Sometimes we just have to wait

I'm back ya'll.  I had a great time in Pennsylvania but it is soooooo good to be back with my hubby and the warm climate.  I'm getting too old for the cold ya'll.  While I was gone my husband found a new house and moved two days before I returned.  I have to say I was very nervous about the move and all things considered he did a great job moving and getting the new house ready for me and my daughter.  I'll talk more about the new house a little later. 

So when I came back on Monday March 5th  my daughter Jennifer was with me.  I was really anxious about it  because my daughter hasn't really been happy about my relationship and marriage to my husband, for a whole bunch of reasons that I won't get into here, Ya'll going to have to read the book for more details on that (seriously stay tuned for Passport Wife coming later this year).   Everything turned out great while she was here for her visit.  As I thought about what I wanted to write about this week I thought about the fact that sometimes we just have to wait.  You know we want things always to be on our time.  When we want something we want it.  This even applies to those of us who pray.  We go to God and ask him for something and we get mad when we don't get it right away.  We have to realize that things are done not always on our time.This past year has been very difficult for me because as my relationship with my husband grew, mature and got deeper and stronger and eventually led to us getting married my relationship with my daughter began to deteriorate a bit.  So this was a really good week. I was so happy to see her smiling and laughing.  She made some new friends while she was here also.  When she left from the airport she actually gave my husband a hug.  Jenni doesn't just give out hugs to anybody so that was huge.  The night before she left she told me that she can actually see that he does love me.  So right now I think we are in a good place.  I am so happy because I honestly never thought we'd get here.  That's why I said that sometimes we just need to wait on things and not give up.  For example today was a rough day for me.  I was here at the house all by myself and today is actually the first day that I've been here by myself since I got back.  I did my usual chores, washed clothes, cooked dinner and I felt myself getting irritated because my husband didn't get home right after four as I expected..  I sat in that irritated space for awhile, thinking about where he was and why he didn't tell where he was and all kinds of crazy things. When he finally did get home.  I didn't have a chance to get angry or say anything to him about how I felt because when he came in he immediately let me know that he had been taking care of the issue with the electricity so that my air conditioning can be installed.  Since the move last weekend my air conditioning hasn't been installed.  It was fine up until yesterday because it really hasn't been that hot.  Yesterday it got up to 90 degrees and I was ready for some air conditioning.  I could have acted a fool and did all kinds of crazy stuff but he was actually out taking care of that so he got a pass and I need to learn to be more patient.  I still don't have my air conditioning installed though, but I'm patiently waiting :-)

Back to the new house, it's nice but there are a few things that I don’t like.  I’m torn between the kitchen being too small and the intermittent water issues being the most irritating for me right now.  The kitchen is really small but I am figuring it out.  The water thing is very annoying.  We are back to sharing water with the house next door and there have been a couple of times where we didn't have water or the water pressure is very low.  But his car port for the car is awesome, which I guess is all that matters since that is what this move was about.  It is really nice carport and the front porch is also nice although right now it’s home to my air conditioning unit which has yet to be installed.  One big plus with this house is that we have electricity 24/7 so no more scheduling the use of the crock pot or microwave.   It’s also nice to always have the fridge on so hopefully food will keep longer now.  The outside laundry area is nice and there’s ample space to hang clothes without me having to step in grass.  We have two bedrooms and two bathrooms now.  Each bedroom has it’s own bathroom which is nice however the 2^nd bathroom’s toilet has been leaking but we are working with the owner to resolve that issue as well as the issue with not having any water.  This house is older or at least it hasn’t been upgraded like the old house but again I think overall it was a good move.  The neighborhood seems very quiet, except for the Dominican house party yesterday where the neighbors blasted their music for several hours.  Oh and there was the karaoke concert one morning last week also that woke both Jennifer and I up.    Our house is next to an empty lot but for the most part it’s much cleaner here also.  There’s still some trash but nothing like the old house.  There are stray dogs but not as many but we do seem to have a cat.  The cat has walked into our house uninvited twice now and it stands outside the side door meowing in the morning.  I'm pretty sure that it belonged to whoever lived here before us and the poor thing is trying to figure out what is going on.  I'm sorry cat lovers but I don't do cats.  I'm actually allergic to them so I will not be taking over the car of this cat.

I'm back to my usual housewife duties but I'm also putting the finishing touches on my next novel, Passport Wife which I plan to release later this year.  Here's a pic of the front of the new house and the wonderful car port for the car.  Did I mention that this move was all about having a carport for the car?  LOL.

Stay tuned until next week.  I'll have more for you all on the new house and neighborhood.