Happy Birthday Bug!! You sound so good! Glad you got to welcome a little one into the world. It truly reminds us of what is important. You are an inspiration. Thanks for your list!
There's something to be said for not having to take someone else's feelings into consideration when we are making dinner or really doing anything. Even watching tv is often more enjoyable. I need to keep that perspective.
I should print that list out and put it on my BR mirror. It's a good reminder.
In the interest of full disclosure, I got no acknowledgement of my birthday from H. That caused an ache and some sadness but it didn't ruin my day. I also tried not to over-analyze it but I did, a bit. Analyzing another's behavior is really a fruitless exercise, isn't it?
A very dear friend, A, died last week. She knew me before I was born. She and my mother were across-the-street best friends for 60 years and her home was my second home.
Seven years ago, A looked out her window early one morning and saw a light on in my Mom's house which shouldn't have been on. She knew something was wrong and went to check. She found Mom unconscious, post-stroke and called 911. That's how well they knew each other.
So, A passed quietly in her sleep after putting up Christmas decorations, having made all her Christmas candy and cookies for this year and mailed all her cards. She and her granddaughter were going to make jelly the day she died.
She was 87 and will be missed by many.
The unfortunate part of this story is I hadn't talked to her in quite a while. We didn't talk often but usually checked in a couple of times a year. I didn't want to tell her that my marriage had fallen apart-not that she would have blamed me, she just couldn't understand why people didn't just work it out. She was married for 67 years!
I have lots of great memories.
Me 57/H 58 M36 S 2.5yrs R 12/13
Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering. Caroline Myss
I am sorry for your loss bug.. (((( )))) She does sound like a wonderful person. (((( ))))
And I am sorry about H and your bday. That is definitely HIS loss.
((bug))
TPS Me: 44 H: 42 M14 T17 S10 D7 10/10 H moves out after death of his father-same month 21/04/12 H is 'DONE' 04/05/12 OW/PA confirmed (rumors from 2010) July '14 H ends affair May '15 H moves back home
Analyzing another's behavior is really a fruitless exercise, isn't it?