1st blog entry of 2007

Happy New Year all! Hope your holiday season was as nice as ours although we did have a couple bumps along the way. The first "bump" happened on Christmas Eve day. My brother-in-law called Alton and was in tears I guess because he was being evicted from his apartment. He had to be out by 3pm on Christmas Eve! So all that day Alton and Bobby moved his stuff into our garage. We set him up a room in our basement for the time being. It's not been too bad having him here because he pretty much has everything he needs down there....bathroom, ect. When my other brother-in-law lived with us he was in what is now Dylan's room, and he had to use our bathroom. I did not like that one bit! The only bad thing we've had to deal with throughout the whole thing is that EVERYTHING he owns smelled like cat urine! He lived with two other guys, and one guy has 9 cats living int he apartment and none were spayed!!!! It's not that the cats actually peed on his stuff, just the stench from the nasty apartment got on everything! So he's washed all of his clothes and put Frebreeze on everything so the smell is pretty much gone--Thank goodness! I just hope that he is able to get on his feet and get his own place very soon! We'll see. He has many problems.

The other bump we had is that one week later on New Year's Eve Alton, Dylan and I all woke up with nasty colds. So needless to say we stayed home on New Years and watched the ball drop in Times Square. I think that was the first time we stayed home and didn't have anybody over for New Years. But we are all pretty much over the colds. Dylan got over his very quick! So that was a blessing. so if you're praying one night and you think of me, send a prayer my way that our guest can get up and on his feet in the next few months! Thank you!!!!