It’s been six months since my family had our house fire. I’ve experienced losses I never imagined, and I don’t mean the ‘stuff’ under that roof. Thanks to the firemen, the damage-restoration service was able to save 99% of our belongings. That’s a HUGE blessing, but we’re still never going back. Financially, it makes more sense to move elsewhere.
Our two kids were ages three and one-month old when we first moved into our home in 2000. I read Brown Bear, Brown Bear a bazillion times to my babies there. We had pumpkin-carving parties each October and ‘Pizza, Family Movie Night’ on Fridays (’til the kids became teenagers and preferred hanging out with their friends over us on the weekends).
My husband and I laughed and screamed and cried together in that house. We had a Gawd-awful 1950’s pink bathroom in the hallway I always intended to redo but now, I’ll never get the chance.
If that’s not enough pain… [Read more…] about Frustration, Procrastination & Other Gobbledygook
I hardly noticed the crisp air as I rushed to my car to avoid being late for yet another meeting. It was November 15th, two weeks before Thanksgiving here in the U.S., but my car radio gleefully blared the holiday tune, “It’s the most wonnnnn-der-fullllll time of the year!”
It was a regular Friday afternoon — August 25, 2017, to be exact. My family had enjoyed a great summer together and was returning to a more scheduled routine with the kids back in school (my daughter, away in college and my son, in his senior year in high school). Every Friday afternoon, my husband treats himself to a tennis workout, so he was there.
Recently, I had an epiphany of sorts. It wasn’t a major AHA moment. There was no burning bush, no light bulb flashed through my mind like in the cartoons (bummer).