Yes. One year we're at our favorite family vacaton beach spot getting family pics made and two years later there's a "family pic" of OM, X and our kids on the mantle in their home. I feel your pain.
Irish, hope for the best, expect the worst and the most frustrating and the weirdist and the most infuriating and the...you get the idea.
Be glad your kids are as old as they are. I attended a back to school function shortly after bomb to learn OM was having an impromptu conference outside the building with my child's teacher. It was all I could do to maintain my composure. X sensed my reaction (we were inside the building together) but I fought every urge in my body to get up and leave.
"Fear is the mind-killer" Muad'Dib Me 53, XW 44, DD 14, DS 12 Bomb and OM 12/15/06 Separated 01/02/07 Divorced 05/13/08 X married OM(OMH) 08/2009 Married 06/09/13