Have To Learn To Look At A Bloody Calander!

Not sure who to blame for this most recent flub!  Yesterdays homage to my lovely wife was both a sentimental and heart felt ode to a very special lady who has brought my little life meaning.
It was also the wrong freakin' date!!! 
ARRGH!  With all that is going on in our life right now, for some unknown reason neither Angi or I were paying attention to the date.  Her birthday is, in fact, today the 30th!  It being a milestone, I wish I could do so much more, but....
(here's where I go all maudlin again)
Our recent housing debacle is Omni present.  The landlords initial assertions that they were looking for an investor to buy the property and keep us as tenants was either Pollyannaish or a smoke screen.  A vein attempt to keep us there paying the mortgage while trying to find anyone to buy it.  Our own attempts to purchase it, while still ongoing, have yet to bear fruit.  Most all viewing the property are there to purchase for themselves so in all likelihood we will be forced to move.  To this end we have been searching ourselves for new digs, but as you can imagine, with seven children, pickings are slim.  More often we have found right house wrong neighborhood or vice versa.  I hold out hope, but the unfortunate collateral damage is a cessation of any and all expenditures not critical to survival.  There goes birthdays and Holidays.  A fact, that while absorbed and accepted, is none the less lamented by everyone.  Christmas isn't even the hard part, for me but the inability to do anything to mark the occasion of Angi's 40th.  She remains strong about it but there is no denying the disappointment. 
Well, in the end we all keep pressing on.  It's what we do.
I do appreciate all the wonderful folks taking time off in their busy shopping schedules to pay us a visit (no angry mobs, fights or gun play here!) and look forward to getting you through to the new year! 
Hope to see you all soon!