I love that you put up a stocking for your wife. I really like that you see her as a member of your family, even if she is lost at the moment. It feels like acceptance and I think that is healthy.
I am preparing a present for my H. I have no intention of giving it to him this year. I am a photographer and I make a lot of macrophotographs. (In case you do not know, macrophotography is essentially very close shots of objects through a special lens. For example, I photograph the inside of a flower or an insect on a leaf, but the printed image is very large in scale). Some of my photographs hang in our home but my H has often asked me to have one enlarged and framed for his office, and I have never done it. So I am doing it this year. It will be wrapped and waiting for the day I can give it to him, whether it is just between friends or something more.
You reminded me of that with hanging the stocking.
Beth
I meant to add that you are helping a lot of people, too, including me. Thank you.
