Housing Update

Well we have good news and not so good news.

Our command sponsorship finally came through and we are officially on the housing list!

The bad news is that PSD is now refusing to give us TLA (paying for our hotel stay while we wait on our house) because in the paperwork they have that he did not acquire dependents until after he got to Japan, or something...and it says that we are inelligible.

This wouldn't be such a big deal, except that we will probably have to wait another 3 weeks before an on base house opens up. They offered to move us to Negishi at the beginning of next week, but we do not want to live there because it's an hour away from base, we don't have a car, and Andrew can't drive because he doesn't have a license. There is a work shuttle to base and back 2 hours each way, but really you need a car to go to the doctor, commissary, etc. We just do not want to live there. We want to live on base, but without TLA we will have to continue to pay for our own stay at the hotel-$66 a night-which is quickly draining our savings.

So we will not be going out to eat, ordering out or exploring Japan anymore until we have a house! We just can't afford it. Looks like we'll be living on spagettios, PBJs and playing a lot of Wii for the next 2-3 weeks while we pray to the Housing gods that something opens up ASAP. We might have to go Navy and Marine Corp. Relief if money gets too tight. We talked about me getting a job but it wouldn't work because of Andrew's unpredictable work schedule. So, yeah, lots of STRESS STRESS STRESS!!!

The kids are doing fine though. I took them to my friend Heather's house yesterday and she has a new kitten, so Helayna was tickled to death and had a great time holding and playing with the kitty. Silas is still a big, happy boy, always smiling and trying really hard to crawl. He's almost got it! Friday night they will be spending the night at Stephanie's house in Ikego while we go to the Christmas party. It will nice to have a night to ourselves without the chitlins.

Hope everyone is doing well. I know a lot of people have asked us for an address. If you would like an address to send Christmas cards, etc. I can give you Andrew's FPO address in an email. He gets his mail a lot sooner now that the GW is on land. We still don't know what we'll do on Christmas if we're not in a house by then (and right now it's looking like we won't be.) We have been invited to spend Christmas with Andrew's shipmate Michael and his wife, Casey, who live in Negishi but we haven't decided if we will or not.