Found an apartment!

     I am SO excited!!! I found an apartment in the heart of El Congrejo, Panama. It is tiny, but Elizabeth will have her own room. It has everything we need. It isn’t furnished so we will be able to start from scratch. I want to get Em a loft bed so it will open up her room and give her lots of space to play. I would love to put one in my room too soI can have a craft space to create and keep from going batty. This will be a challenge on a limited budget but we will manage. I am so ready to start 2019 in a new space.
Elizabeth’s room

My room

Master bath

kitchen

Living/dining, with a view of the balcony :)

Custody battle over

      After almost 3 years (2 years and 9 months), my custody battle is over. I will try not to use any expletives when I talk about this. After being literally kicked out of my house with no money, no clothes, no anything, AND not able to see or contact my 2 year old daughter, IN a country where I don’t speak the language, FOR no reason at all by my a$$h@ll of a husband, the judge decided to grant us SHARED custody. Supposedly they don’t do shared custody in Panama 🇵🇦. So now I am paying for an appeal. It has been such a LONG journey that even though the verdict was not exactly what I wanted at ALL, I am happy. The judge DID say that my daughter will live “in the home of her mother”, and my lawyers seem to think that is a good thing. I can survive here in Panama as long as I have her, and my husband 💩 doesn’t attempt to lower the pension I am receiving. My next stop is to get her a US passport so that she may visit her family in Florida. And Minnie Mouse.
     Despite being awarded a court order granting me permission to get my daughter a US passport without the signature of her father, 💩has managed to ONCE again block it in the court system. The sad part is, he is hurting his daughter. It is so obvious to me that he does not give a flying fig about her. He hates me, that is obvious, but by trying to devastate me he is hurting her. When she is old enough to realize what he is doing, I know she will not be thanking him. My anger towards him keeps me up at night, but I never tell my daughter what is going on. She is so joyful and innocent. Such a sweet and loving soul. I love her so much. She is my heart.
     So life goes on...I have decided to move to another area of Panama City with my daughter, partly to get farther away from 💩 who literally lives 2 blocks away from me now. Also, I will be leaving this high rent district. Everything is so expensive in Costa del Este. At the moment I live hand to mouth and literally NEVER have any money left over from my pension. If there is an emergency I am in BIG trouble. It will be so nice not to worry over every penny.I am so excited!!!