Back On The Blog

I cannot believe it's been a year since I've written on my blog and what a year it has been.  I will catch everyone up in the next week with some new posts.  Last August started a crazy year for me.  Within a three week time period I drove to Pennsylvania twice, once to move my mother to NC with me and once for my stepmother's funeral.  I also started a new part time job at Walmart.   My mother was getting to the point that she could not take care of herself anymore.  When she decided to take a walk to the store and got lost going home and ended up in someones yard I decided it was time to make that decision.  She came to me with her legs being so bad with open wounds that she was close to the point to losing them.  She ended up in the hospital then in a Nursing home for over a month.  We had to drive 45 minutes to a doctor each week to have her legs wrapped.  She sure did fight me on this but I was not going to give in as others have in the past.  I can say that after a year her legs are finally healed.  Hopefully they will stay that way.  We have her in a hospital bed at night so that keeps her legs up and helps to keep the fluid from building up.
She was in her same apartment for over 20 years and was the 2nd resident to move in when they build the complex.  It was a hard adjustment moving to another state, she has her moments but overall she is doing well.  But I guess that's part of getting older she will be 84 this year.  She does love the southern sweet tea.

Since we moved here I could not make up my mind on the colors I wanted to paint my downstairs.  I wanted a color for the dining room but since that wall goes straight across into the family wall we needed to figure out how to separate them.  Here is the result:

This picture is looking at the wall as you are coming down the stairs.  As you can see we painted the dining room to the right a blue and the family room to the left a light tan color.  We decided to put a piece of woodwork on each side to separate the spaces.  Then we painted a darker shade of the the tan in the center.  It really turned out great and I love it.  I then got an idea off pintrest for some of the shells I've been collecting.  I bought some shadow boxes, painted the back cardboard pieces the same color of the wall.  I  spray painted the shells I was going to use white.  I then glued them onto the cardboard and put them back into the frames.  I love the way it turned out.

Well I guess this is long enough for now, I'll be writing soon to catch up on the year and all our adventures. 

Till next time....

Love,
Jennifer