What's a TCM practitioner? I'd like to find a TCA (The Cheap Alternative) practioner myself. My benefit plan covers practically nothing! It's a good thing I got half of STBX's money left to her, which she paid off our mortgage with (big mistake!), by her Dad when he passed away. See I'm already choosing gratitude and I haven't even started the book yet!
The other night I was looking through our family photos because a couple from my church have invited me to drop by and see them some night. I thought it might be nice to show them my family and see pictures of their family. STBX gave me a box of photos which she had scanned and printed for me as a Christmas gift. We had about nine albums of pictures and she scanned seven of them, two to go. When I started sorting through the pictures I just couldn't stop crying and blowing my nose! There are so many wonderful memories in these photos, seventeen years of married life. Most of the photos are of our kids or us with our kids. The girls are always so happy and it still breaks my heart to think what we've done to them even though I did everything I could to stop it. Yes, so many memories... but, I guess, what is is!
I left all of our albums at W's. The girls love pulling them out and looking at them. It's their subtle way of saying, hey, mommy, why aren't we a family anymore.
One of the best things I did after the split was to buy a digital camera and take lots and lots and lots of photos.
It's a new life now and it's going to be a good life.
Me: 47, Ds 17-13, D final 6-11 http://tinyurl.com/yk4e2tz http://tiny.cc/thread2 http://tinyurl.com/ydtphqu http://tinyurl.com/thread4 http://tinyurl.com/3sm78k6 http://tinyurl.com/thread6
I shouldn't have stayed up with you folks last night, now I've got a touch of the flu. I've been exhausted all week, stomach has been a bit off, and the bod is a little achy. So I took the day off, the second one this week. I think I've missed maybe three days in the last five months so I decided not to push myself and rush off to work (the boss sighed in frustration and said, without the slightest hint of real concern, "get better"). This is one of my "being alone" hang ups, I keep busy going to work and activities at times when I probably should rest. So tonight I pick up my girls and stay home, no games night at the church, although I hate to miss it. Anyway, I'll be in tonight so we can all party to the wee hours on the DB board...and I'm talking 10:00pm at least! Hey, I'm 52 now and I need my rest. I've got a whoopee weekend planned...OK, maybe not, I was just hoping you guys might fall for that.
