Fire might as well took everything, for all that it was worth.

I'm so mad I can hardly see straight, even now.
When our home caught fire back in October 2011, my mother in laws cousin offered to store what we WERE able to salvage in her garage until we could get settled enough to come get it.
Well, lo and fucking behold, she chooses to come over ON THE FUCKING 4TH OF JULY OF ALL FUCKING DAYS! with a few cardboard boxes. First she tells me that everything got thrown away because of her fear of bed bugs and what the exterminator had told her. Then she talks to my mother in law and tells her that everything got wet. Well just two months ago my husband and father in law had gone over there to get our stuff and it was dry as a bone, with our important papers and photos sealed up in a large plastic tote with flip locks that was sealed up with duct tape, so where the fuck is that shit??!!
Those two totes held my ONLY ORIGINAL copy of my birth certificate from the hospital I was born at, complete with my little baby foot prints and the ONLY picture of me as an infant, both given to me by my biological dad who has since passed away. Not to mention ALL of the artwork by both of my children that I had chosen to save out of the hundreds of pieces of artwork, from the time they were in kindergarten until right before the fire. Photo albums of my family and the kids, vinyl records like Dark Shadows, the tv series, Grease, Black Sabbath...all original, in good shape, and not worth a ton, but worth a little.
I'm so heart broken. I kept telling her that she should have called us and told us and let US do what we wanted with the stuff. She kept telling me "It won't MY responsibility." I kept telling her.."All you had to do was CALL ME." She kept apologizing, I kept telling her not to worry about it. She just wouldn't shut up and then had the gall to say "Well I'm NOT worried about it." That lit me up right there..
I know what happened. Her and her whole family are a pack of vultures. Anytime they get the opportunity to swoop down and benefit from someone else's misery or misfortune, they do. I did not realize this until now.
Either her brother(s) went through our stuff, taking out stuff they thought they could sell for drugs or whatever, and left our shit out to get wet, she found out and was trying to cover her brother(s) ass(es) or SHE went out there and went through our shit, taking out what she thought would be able to get something for and is trying to cover her own shit. Either way, she was wrong, wrong WRONG.
If it would not hurt my husband's cousin, who is mentally and physically handicapped and has to be cared for by this woman, I would take her to small claims court. But I fear that doing that would cause him to go without in some way or other.
This woman ran her mouth and my husband shoved her foot into it for her. She rah rah'ed for a bit after I left in tears, and my husband told her flat out that she would NEVER understand because she will NEVER have kids because she is barren and NO ONE wants to have kids with her ANYWAYS. I don't care how much stuff she has lost or had destroyed in her lifetime...she will never understand what it is like to lose EVERYTHING your children have EVER made you...EVER...Christmas ornaments, school artwork, home artwork...all that stuff can never be gotten back.
I swear I am trying so very very hard not to dwell on this, but it is damn near impossible. I keep wondering "When is something good gonna happen to/for this family?" Seems like all we keep getting is the short end of the stick ...and Dammit! I'm tired of getting screwed and having something to complain about. I hate complaining. And even though this is my journal...I STILL feel like I am complaining/being a whiney hiney. WHY does bad shit keep happening? I'd like to know what it is I (or my husband,mother in law, father in law) have done to deserve to continually keep getting screwed/having bad shit happen to us.
Usually I can "forget about it" and let shit go..and I'm trying hard not to wring my husband's ear off about this mess, since he can do nothing about it, just like me. But I can tell I am going to have to do a LOT of "tongue biting" in the days and weeks and months to come.
I did tell my mother in law that if she wanted her cousin..she could have her. Just not to expect ME to have ANYTHING else to do with her. I don't associate with liars and thieves, whether they be folks outside of family or family members themselves, and this woman is one that just got put on that list. I can put a person on the "IG" like a BOSS, and flat out told my mother in law that if the woman came around again, that I absolutely REFUSE to acknowledge the woman's presence. And THAT I know will piss this lady off worse than anything else, cause she can't stand to not be acknowledged. 
Why do we have to keep dealing with folks that don't give a damn, family or otherwise? I'm just so tired of getting screwed...makes me want to pull in, shutter the house and say screw the world.