Barbara semi moved in with me and our souls got closer. By semi I mean I bought her a plastic 3 draw cabinet for her things. She was amazing, to her it was like I bought her and Ethan Allen Dresser. My birthday is the day before Christmas and my kids would always take me out to dinner the week before. Barbara asked why they didn’t come on my birthday or Christmas Day. I explained that their mom’s family always had a tradition of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. She felt that this was not right and that they should respect me more. She took my sons aside and in Barbara’s way in no uncertain terms told them that if they did not call me on my birthday and show up Christmas morning that there would be hell to pay. They all called me on my birthday and on Christmas morning there was a knock on the door and their where my kids in pajamas.
My apartment was small, so we decided to get our own place. When she told AJ and Jen we were moving in together, they said when do we have to move out. Barbara looked at them and very excitedly she said you’re not moving out I am! We looked at a Town House in Haverstraw and we were seriously thinking about it. That night Barbara woke up in the middle of the night and screamed $150,000 dollars for a place that they will tell us what we can and can’t do! F that. So, the search continued. We saw an open house sign and went in. We both fell in love with hit and called her real estate friend Frank and we put in an offer. We did not get it. However, 2 weeks later we got a call and the house was ours. Within a month we were in the house painting, repairing and organizing. A UPS driver came in and said you know I have the same house and we took this wall down and it made the house more open. I looked a Barbara and she gave me the look I then looked at my son and he smiled so we knocked the wall down and all the lose insulation fell thru the ceiling it looked like a blizzard. My first Barbara silent treatment (it was stressful) but after a few hours she came around.
I never new what to do. It was her secret weapon