My UFO (unbelievably fabulous observations)

[hoosiermama]

I've been so involved in my job transition and D14's upcoming graduation that I didn't realize...last year at this time I was in mediation. Specifically, April 22 I think, with the divorce being final on April 24--and signed on our 15th anniversary, May 21. It's good to be a year out from all of that, to have it all behind me. It's been a year of so much healing and moving forward; I still don't feel like I'm completely "alive" and like my life has a definite direction, but maybe I just haven't adjusted to single parenthood completely. I have friends--a different group of them. I will be starting a job that will allow me to feel financially secure. D14 is doing okay--and hopefully leaving a dysfunctional school environment will help her feel a little less anxious. I have a kinda-sorta relationship which is moving appropriately slowly with someone who's kind, healthy and supportive (altho 800 miles away!) and trying to learn to negotiate that in a healthy way myself. I have peace in most ways besides financial (and that should be resolving) and I like myself for the first time in recent memory, and I understand how my mind functions and how I heal and how I go wrong--for the very first time. All in all, not a bad year. And next April...I can hardly wait!