It's MY life now!!!........

[Silent Chrleader]

Thanks, Hoozh!

Yes, I'm feeling pretty OK right now. I know that H would never have asked it of me, but I wanted to give it......for him and for me.

He just called me a minute ago and said he was thinking about D24 saying she needed a dinette set (she and SIL and GD are moving into their own place next week) and said he has an oak table and chairs up at the dream house that she can have. When he told me about it, he said it's a round oak table like the first little one we bought (which was 20+ years ago). It's a small thing but it was a nice to hear him be able to refer to our history. He has avoided doing that for the most part, so maybe my having said the words provided a good step toward healing for us both.

And I am very grateful that he thinks about the family and tries to help. I even told him that though I appreciated him being willing to offer my alcoholic brother a job, to not feel like he had to do that for me. He said that he wasn't doing it for me, but for my brother.