I owe so many people visits t their threads (and I read yours, Sunny, though I didn't reply yet...) so I'm sorry for being so self-absorbed. But I don't have the kids this weekend and I've been reflecting a lot on my employment his year, where I went wrong and what I couldn't avoid. It is finally hitting me how many enormous trials I went through in the last four years, how alone I've been and how much I've grown. I have been kind of weepy, but a cleansing weepy. If any of my friends or kids went through what this year has been for me I would be appalled.

I hope I'm finally in a place where I'm gaining perspective on the last year, rather than just powering through it. I'd like to move past it. It was a demanding year. I want to start liking outwards again.


Me42, H40
D12, S8, S7
A revealed: 7/13
Sep 4/14; Agreed to D 1/15

She believed she could, so she did.