Second part to this past year

So after spending countless nights, weekends and thousands of dollars working on our new house we finally moved in over Memorial day weekend. Thankfully we had some help from friends and family members to help us complete the demolition of two bathroom, painting and ripping out floors. As for the moving we hired a moving company!

In June my aunt and uncle and their daughter came out from Utah to visit for a week. My uncle is a building inspector and knows how to do just about anything when it comes to home repairs so he and Ed agreed to stay back and work on the house while my aunt and I and all of the kids headed to Ocean City for the week.. I know not to fair but they got a ton done while we were gone.

So while I'm away Ed calls me to tell me the next door neighbor that had been so extra nice to us since the second we bought the place had just bee arrested! I was completely shocked. Of course Ed being totally non social had no clue why he had been arrested. So the next day the local paper comes out and turns out he was arrested on charges of child molestation.

Let me tell you I was floored. He seemed like the nicest guy on the planet.. mowing our grass, offering to help take a few trees out on our property, filling us in on all of the activities in the area for the kids etc.

So anyway he posts out on bail and is STILL awaiting his trial which was supposed to be in August and has since been postponed until this October.. talk about awkward.

He comes over to talk to Ed the day it hit the papers and never once says "Hey I didn't do this" . Instead he just goes on and on about that the incident occurred 8 years ago and tells Ed not to worry cause we are not in any danger.. gee thanks.. that makes me feel so much better. so needless to say we have cut all ties which makes it so awkward to even go in our backyard when he is in his back yard which for some reason is like every two seconds either to mow the grass.. water the lawn or work in his garden. We are in the process of having a 6 foot fence installed as soon as our permit goes through.

The whole thing makes me so mad... at first i wanted to sell this house immediately, but after thinking it through I guess it's better to have the information then to not know at all...I'm still hoping that somehow he is innocent and the victim recants the entire story.