What a week!

I cannot begin to describe the amount of anxiety and stress that my family endured this week.  But after Friday we are all prayerful that God is moving the obstacles and challenges that Satan set to weaken us.

It all began last Saturday when I received a letter certified mail and because I was in the restroom when the postwoman rang the doorbell I didn't get to sign for it.  Immediatley I began thinking of the mortgage.  But the letter was in my name and I am on the deed not the actual loan so they only speak to Craig and send things only to him.  After I ran out to ask Craig what he thought it was (he was in the middle of cutting the lawn) I started sifting through the mail and saw two letters from an attorneys office addressed to me.  Panic set in.  I felt my stomach go ablaze in nervousness.  Inside I read quickly that unless we paid a over 100K for our home in two weeks our home would be place for auction on September 7th for foreclosure.  I just went crazy.  Craig stayed calm but we were both a wreck as we had no one to speak to about our loan (which still thought we were in modification review) since it was the weekend.  I prayed hard and I immediately thought of our state senator Tom Price.  I called his office and they had me fax over all our paperwork (all 32 pages of it) showing what we had been doing for last 5 month or more to be in modification.  The next afternoon they sent us an e-mail stating that Senator Price would be contacting the comptroller of Bank of America to draw urgency to our case.  Each day Craig spoke to a minimum of 20 people.  It was crazy no one knew what to do with us.  I even e-mailed Bill Liss from 11Alive news to see if he could get Bank of America to get someone to talk with us who knew what was going on.  Each time we called Bank of America they were clueless.  I think I sent Bil Liss too many e-mails (I thought they weren't going through and sent him an e-mail 5 times which prompted blogger and g-mail to be shut down-I guess they thought I was spamming him).  Finally, Craig got someone on Wednesday at BOA. He told Craig he had no idea why we were getting the run around over the phone when our account simply states, "when this customer calls direct him immediately to the office of the president of BOA".  Craig was flabbergasted to say the least.  So after being transferred several times and finding the numbers disconnected (I guess the office of the president has to change their numbers alot because of complaints) he finally got the right place, or so we thought.  By that time the office he reached was closed.  He called again on Friday when he was able to work from home and after an hour on the phone with 20 different people he finally got our case manager and found out that she will immediately stop the foreclosure and will be getting us a negotiator to work the terms to reinstate our mortgage no later than Tuesday.  Whew!  We are so thankful for this and we pray God will make Craig as shrewd as a serpent and gentle as a dove as he negotiates with them.  We also pray for their hearts to be softened.

I have my surgery this Friday at 8:45am and have made little goodie bags for the kids with markers and coloring books, special snacks, books, and a surprise stuffed animal from build-a-bear to help them through my surgery.  I know it's just stuff but I pray they will be so busy the time will fly for them.  Brendan has been really upset and not wanting me to go to the hospital but then he doesn't want to talk about it.  All I know is that this Friday couldn't come any quicker.  I pray this relieves my pain and that I will finally be able to sleep through the night (minus when the kids get me up) without pain.

I have another story I'll save for another day that has to do with Trinity's dance.  It's all about how God speaks to us .  I can't wait to share it.