Someone is stepping into your territory today, but as threatened as you might feel by them, this is no day to engage in any kind of power struggle with them. You’re better than they are in so many ways, and they are well aware of this—which is why they are making such aggressive moves. But their tactics are only going to backfire on them, so you don’t have to worry about reprimanding them. They just want to bring you down to their level. Don’t go there.

This is so dead on for me today it’s scary! Because my husband is working most of the day and being here with my mother in law on Allison’s birthday is not going to be pretty. To be honest, most days around here since she moved in with us are not pretty. 

It’s been a very hard year. I try not to blog about it much but once in a while I really need to. It helps to let it out and my poor sister can only handle so much.
Saying to my husband that day “well, she’ll have to come here” was by far the biggest mistake of my life. Having a parent live with you that is only 60 years old and acts like she is 90 for attention and is unstable and depressed about 75% of the time yet refuses to change her life or seek any kind of help is not an easy thing to deal with. It’s been hard on all of us, Allison included. Even if she were here under the best circumstances, it would not be good at this time in our lives. Some of the time it feels like I watching my life slowly slip away and turn in to hers. As dramatic as that sounds, it’s a hard thing when you have a nine year old daughter that is being influenced by some one you 100% disagree with on everything including common sense of right and wrong.
My goal is to fix this by the end of summer. Not sure how but I am gathering up all the information I can on local housing and the programs that are out there to help. I even found some subsidized apartments right here in our city that I plan to go and check out this week. I really hope speaking to some one there can give me a little hope that things don’t have be like this. Otherwise, I am not sure how long it will take before it ruins my marriage and family and that would really break my heart.