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This blog is about one woman facing each day - making it happen... surviving... putting up with... overcoming challenges... laughing or crying... and sharing her inner beauty - all while wearing Apricot Beige #7 or Frosted Rose.

Always remember...

"When you are a daughter, mother, sister or girlfriend--you are proof positive that daily surviving can be a beautiful thing."
-- Jodi Hills, Author of Slap on a Little Lipstick...You'll Be Fine

"Do couples always argue the week before the wedding?"

This was the question posed to me last night from my mother who is getting married to the anti-christ in 10 short days. " I have so much planning to do, things to get done, I have to get the count to the catering place for chicken and crab cakes!!!!" I heard more "I"'s last night then I have since the LAST time I spoke with her. Oh boy, she lives in a very small world, she's the only one in it and when others venture their way in to her pseudo reality chamber it is SCARY!!!!

My kids have officially began to rebel, they do NOT want to attend the affair and are not going to be quiet about it. Green bean said he wasn't going, hopes we have fun, Loud Girl asked for a bribe to attend, and when the baby sees pics of her grandmother she looks away or cries.

Oh, and can I help alleviate the tension that we have in the family somehow? That came up in our conversation, now I get to officially run interference for mommy dearest b/c she's just so OVERWHELMED! She's retired, has no financial stress, nothing to worry about but herself and decorating her new McMansion, which is not all that lovely I might add. I have 3 kids, husband, home, and job. I'll take what I got thank you very much. I'M HAPPY DAMN IT! She is NOT.

That's enough for today.

One very nice item, hubby and I are finally getting organized, a little at at time, I think all that HGTV is helping after all. That or my meltdown on Saturday about not being able to find any space that's peaceful hit home, I don't care why or how, I just hope it lasts, he says he's on board with the VISION we discussed. He also said he's quitting smoking, I haven't seen evidence of it yet, but the fact that he's stating it out loud of his own volition is an event in and of itself! Smiles for me and lots of love to all of you in Bloggy land.

Wow, it's been a week

since my last bloggy, where has the time gone...so busy. Relay was a HUGE success lots of fun, they did an article in last Sunday's paper on Emily which was really nice 2 pretty good pics of her and I at Relay, one of her teachers laminated it for her and gave it to her, other teachers hung copies of it in their classrooms, she was SHINING!!!

Things are good, I'm happy, kids happy, baby is growing like a weed and hubby feels pretty good! Waiting now for the clouds to open up and bestow some bad news on me but I'll try and stay positive, really I will, it just seems like when things start going well, something crappy happens, and I don't want that to become a self-fulfilling prophecy so I'll stop talking it up right now!

On a very sweet note, a family that we see at Relay, friends of my big sister's they are originally from the Bronx, and parents now live in the South, well they spent a lot of time holding the baby at Relay, and the mom says to me, "Sweetie, I don't see little white babies too often, but this one is just beautiful, she's so pink, she's like a big ball of cotton candy, that's what I'll call her, my little Cotton Candy!" Well, we've been calling her that all week, I'm wondering if the nickname may scar her as she grows older, but she is so cute and pink, it fits!

On another note, we know someone, who apparantly is a little freaky in the bedroom from what he said, well he likes to videotape him and his lovely lady, what the hell for I do not know, and just like you hear about, the TAPE got OUT, accidentally to a friend, boy this is bad stuff, but what did they think would happen??? Awful, and at the same time I did laugh, so mean I know, but who would think it!!! Do they not watch E!?? Thing of it is, the lady in question does not know it "got out" and doesn't know that people have seen her in lets just say not her best presentation I'm told. WHY people WHY!!!

I have no way to transition after that one so I'll just move on.

Dear mother asked me to read a bible verse at her wedding, I asked if it was from Revelations and she just looked at me with a none to happy grin.

I better imbibe some of the wine before hand, who know what'll happen at this fiasco.

Till next time, lots of love to all of you in bloggy land and remember, keep your personal videos in a safe place!

-lil'sis

 
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