A Little Epiphany - (and a newbie delurking)

[Dia]

Ham was good. Roasted veggies were good. A friend of kidlet's came over after school and they build a fort out of blankets and lawn chairs. Then they got a camping lantern and a deck of cards and played Go Fish! Ahhhh, childhood.

H continued rearranging the office with me assisting whenever his shoulder needed it. One such event involved him laying on his back to adjust the pins under a a wall-mounted while I stood straddling him securing the desk from above. Lots of cooperative work.

Also, clearing those shelves meant that he pulled down a lot of things related to OW including letters, books and a calendar from her and a photo of her framed in white garden-gate popsicle sticks with craft-y flowers and an ILY message pasted on it in black foam letters. (BARF!!)

It will be interesting to see where these items end up now that they've been taken down.

So, the gooey cards from her - gone.

ILY pic in the office - gone.

That leaves some toys that belong to her daughter and a few other photos.

I have to wonder - how much of rearranging the office was an excuse to move her stuff, not necessarily for my sake - but for his own. For my sake, he could have just taken the pics and put them away, but I wonder if for his own sake he needed a 'reason'? Sort of like, taking them down because he was rearranging the shelves was somehow psychologically more comfortable than taking them down because (maybe) he wants to move forward with me?