Welcome Home Jermaine

What an awesome family weekend we had! Jeff, Amy and Hunter came down from Dallas and stayed with us to surprise Jermaine and it was a great success! Here are a few pictures from when they arrived on Saturday. Some are a little blurry, but my finger can't take the picture fast enough when Hunter smiles! He has great big smiles, but I am always a second behind!!

He is now 6 months old and here he is with Pops (Grandpa Jeff)

 And here with G-mama (grandma Wilma)

He has discovered his fingers and he likes them in his mouth!

Now, when uncle Jermaine made it home, he was none the wiser that they were in town. We were over at his parents house about to leave for brunch when they walked in the door!! Jermaine was so surprised! Here are some pics but again some are a little blurry, Hunter moves all the time and has so many cute expressions, I tried to catch them....

 

After they got acquainted, we all went to Baba Yega's for brunch - which was wonderful!! This was to celebrate Jermaine's homecoming and Wilma's birthday, which is today, the same day as our anniversary.
We had a good time and here are a couple of pics of Hunter and them some of the guys afterwards.

Amy told us that the moose is his favorite toy, and he loves it as you can see! When we were leaving we got a couple of pictures of the boys. First the brothers with Hunter and then all the guys, Dad/Grandad, Uncles, Dad and Son!

So much stress!!

Wow, today I am really depressed and I am worried about Tony. Lisa came home on Tuesday to Sharon's house. Since then Sharon and Bea have been trying to take care of her, making sure she gets all her medications on the correct schedule. Which means Bea hasn't been to work in two days and Sharon hasn't slept in two days! This cannot go on indefinitely!!

So last night Tony went over to talk to Sharon about the whole situation and of course it was a mess. This is so difficult because it is very emotional, and Sharon is trying to do what she thinks is best for her daughter...but her emotions are clouding the issues. Tony is just trying to help her get things straight so this doesn't continue to become a larger financial burden on the entire family, including us. But its going to be a process, one that will most likely take a lot of time, effort and some money.

We are fine with paying the money for attorney's fees, but he has to get Sharon on board first. There are so many concerns and she is so stressed she can't even think about them all!! Something needs to legally get set up so Lisa can be taken care of with her own money. This needs to happen now because it will only get more complicated if she dies. Or if something happens to Sharon, then who will take care of Lisa? Sharon has to get her stuff in order to.

Sharon says that Lisa is getting better and can squeeze your hand and open her eyes, but unfortunately we don't believe she will ever be at a place where she is a functioning adult. This is a tragedy. And I cannot imagine how Sharon feels as her mother. I understand that of course Sharon and others in the family would want to believe that Lisa can recover, but at this point, even if she does recover, it would be years before she could be fully funcntional again. If she could regain control of her body internally, and actually eat and drink again, she would then have to re-learn all of her motor skills.

At this point, we think the family needs to get access to Lisa's money and assets and use that to provide her with care. Once her personal assets are exhausted, then she will be provided care through Medicaide. This may not be ideal, but the family cannot just stop everything in their lives to take care of Lisa themselves and spend all their money. As it stands now, three different people have paid Lisa's mortgage for the last three months.

This has to get resolved in the best way for Lisa and the rest of the family. And of course this is on top of the usual drama....Sharon dealing with issues at her shop, everyone pitching in to help Granda, us pitching in to help Bea....

This is a very clear lesson that we all need to have our wishes documented, and documentation prepared that will assist our family if something terrible should happen to us. This should be done when you can think about it objectively and make rational decisions about your future, and your families future. In the midst of all this, Tony and I have to get that done as well. While he is working to help the family, I am going to work to get us set up so we never have these kind of issues.

And this really needs to get resolved with Lisa and his family before we have a family of our own and we can't help as much as we can now! I just have to try to stay out of it as much as possible. I wish I could be more help for Tony, but I cannot let this stress me out any more than it already is, for my health and the health of the baby.

I pray for us all.