Yes, rH, it is tough...trying to keep letting them edge closer when we would like things to move just a wee bit faster...lol.
The kitchen thing, thanks to you, Hopper, FY and TVS seems to be working around slowly, you guys' input helped me craft a nice email suggestion...I am trying to keep her involved, like I prepped up a nice stew the night before so all she had to do was turn on the crockpot in the late morning...stuff like that so it's more a team effort, just separate right now...lol...
And the boys and I are working menus and grocery lists as we transition through what's in the pantry atm, this weekend should be first "live run" ...
She has an interesting look, sorta "girl-next-door" with something unique...my friends have said she's a 7 or 8 if a scale means anything. Because she was highly influenced by the media and its "ideals", and the abuse/abandonment, she has always not liked her looks and craved attn from men for that external validation (again, that external thing, rather than internal)...and she/is was kinda a wallflower/super shy person. Since her "purpose" (the kids) is growing up and away, peri-menopause, growing older, dad dying, etc, yet another perfect storm...I am watching your sitch with great interest since H seems a bit ahead of W
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm
