That's it in a nut shell.

I have been extremely neglectful of my blog lately . . . too much life and not enough time . . . So in the order the pictures loaded up, here is what has been going on lately.

I had a little tiff . . . with my sister Tiffini . . . I was sad because Tony was going to move out (more on that in a sec) and she wrote on my facebook wall, "Wow! Way to be enmeshed." Or something like that. So I looked up what enmeshed meant and this is how the rest of it played out.

Message I sent my sister~ "did you mean to say this to me~ The definition of Enmeshed~ Enmeshed families are characterized by an extreme sense of closeness, so much so that almost any expression of independence or separateness is seen as disloyalty to the family. This kind of false loyalty is a very high value in an Enmeshed family."

Message back from my sister~ "Well yes, I did mean that, but not exactly the harsh a definition as you posted. Stuff you said just reminded me of the way Dad talked about stuff too. :)

"My reply to her comment~ "When someone is going through a hard time the LAST thing they need is for someone else to come at them with RUDE and HEARTLESS comments . . . I didn't need that kind of comment, and didn't appreciate it at all. It hurt my feelings . . . And Right now with all that I have going on I don't need this kind of thing and Will not tolerate it."

So who knows what will happen now . . . I'm tired of her being snarky to me . . . Just like when Alex cut off his finger, she said that his girlfriend was going to be disappointed now for sexual reasons . . . (I'm paraphrasing). Those kinds of comments are not appropriate when you are upset and in a high stress situation . . . I have tried to forgive those kinds of comments, but I'm tired of always having to be the bigger person, and let it go, It's rude and I don't like it.

Ok so Tony decided to move in with 2 of his friends . . . I went to sam's club and bought him some toilet paper, and 2 huge boxes of top Ramin, and a new bath mat and 2 new towels. I have not seen his new place, but will go over next weekend when they have settled in more.

Makes me sad that he has gotten so big so fast, but he is handling all of this so drama free and like a great guy . . . so I'm very proud of him. But you know I'm always proud of him and my other boys.

Tim and I had an exploding shower door in Avery's bathroom the other day . . . so it seemed the prefect time to do a bathroom make over . . . We have had the paint for a while, the lighter color, one and with the fixtures and new lights and what not decided that Chocolate brown would be wonderful with it. We picked up one can of the brown and it looked like baby poop so Tim took it back and got a darker shade, which will be wonderful! (You can kind of see the lighter brown on the back side of the dark brown.)

The bathroom used to have one of those "holly wood lights" with a bunch of big round bulbs in it, and I got a FANTASTIC deal on some really pretty lights (Tim would like to use them in our bathroom instead, but it goes so well with the colors for this bathroom. That I dont' want to change.) So he had to move the holes in the wall and make two rather than just the one that was there before.

I think he is looking at Where I "Schlooped paint" on the wall . . . I'm so glad he loves me because if he didn't he would probably ring my neck!

I tease him a lot about being a "paint Nazi" but you know what I truly appreciate all he does, because when he is done, it looks PERFECT!!!

My mom had a huge bunion and spurs in her big toe, arthritis had eaten the cartilage out of the toe, so she finally couldn't take the pain any more and decided to have surgery.


After surgery she gave me a bit of a scare as he blood pressure went up to 208 over 110 . .. It was bad!!!

But she is feeling better now, she is home and dealing with the pain in her foot, but that will go away eventually! And she will be able to walk around!

My friend Jessica has a daughter who turned 13 and had her bat mitzvah . . . I did all the flowers for the party, and my wonderful friend Stacey flew out to dance at the party!!! It was a lot of work, but the party turned out to be great!

And no great event is complete without a picture of me and Tim . . . I don't know why we are so lavender . . . maybe we ate too much of the blueberry gum from Willy wonka! HAHAHAHA

And that's it in a nut shell . . .