Didn't your momma teach you?

Responsibility.
Respect.
Honesty?
How about plain ol' common decency?

I'm so irritated right now at people who don't have these qualities. Our tenants quit paying and then after we tried (unsuccessfully) to contact them they abandoned the property. So we're left with a broken lease, unpaid rent from them and a migraine. To boot, we've got to pay a utility bill that they didn't pay, simply because we own the property. As if we haven't already been screwed enough.

Ive had a whirlwind of emotions and not so nice thoughts in the transcourse of things...
I've been frustrated, annoyed, impatient, irritated. I've wondered if buying a house in the first place was a mistake. I loved my blue house with the yellow living room, green kitchen, and bedrooms of blue, tan and lavender. I did. If I could have taken it with us, I would have. That house made me happy and held so many important events and memories.

But now, I really do wish sometimes that those walls had never belonged to me. I would have been just as content in the apartment we had been in before we bought the house. I LOVED that apartment. Now, I wish I could turn back time and just have walked away before signing that binding contract. That house no longer makes me happy. It makes me tired and oddly unreasonable. But I digress...

To the abandoners, didn't your momma teach you to be responsible? Didn't your momma teach you to face your problems and try to find a solution? We could have helped. We could have worked something out. But you just left like a thief in the night. Scurrying around trying not to get caught.

My momma did teach me. She taught me the value and importance of forgiveness and of faith. I forgive and now move forward. I'm not looking back because its a waste of energy. Valuable energy that can be placed on something far better. Somehow this will turn out OK in the end. Even if it seems like its a negative outcome, I know its a blessing in disguise. And no one can tell me otherwise. Because my momma taught me never to doubt my intuition. My momma taught me well.