Jenny, Hi! Nice to hear you're doing well. I had to get a new computer and a new email address. Anyway, I sent an email to your address. Do you still have it? If so, drop me a line, OK? If not, or if your email has changed, write me at windsurfer919@hotmail.com and I will get back to you. Thanks!
We are doing OK too. 3 years of piecing for me come May. I've been busy...finally going to finish the MS in May and actually graduate. Work keeps me pretty busy too. Hard to believe it was 3 years ago that h ended his PA with the ho. Sometimes it seemed like it never happened, other days it feels like a fresh wound. But it's getting better. Just a slow process. I try not to think about it because it still causes me some anger (not lots, but some) about how close the cliff of destruction came to my toes, and what the fallout did to my family. I don't get on the board too much either. My daughter's grades did not recover enough from that ugly time to help her get college scholarships---which is unfortunate because she has incredible potential.
We will have our 25th anniversary in June. He would not commit to renewal of the vows unless I really pushed it. I did not. I suggested it, he squirmed and basically said he would if I insisted. So I dropped it. But it did hurt a little. I was so hoping we could renew them, (willingly) as if that would finally close that ugly chapter for good. Then I figured...he didn't honor the first set, so what would be magical about the second? Well, no magic, just like it would be a clean slate. But I will not press it. His loss---as I think it would have been cleansing to his soul as well. My soul is doing just fine. I don't have any problem looking in the mirror.
I graduate on 5/9, daughter graduates from HS on 5/23 and then our 25th all within a 4 week period. So lots of activity around our house. I am hoping son and daughter in law will make it home for his sister's grad. He does one more tour in the Persian Gulf and he's out of the Navy in one year and 4 months. None of us can wait for that, especially him. And we all hope the job market is good around here so he can come and work here. D-i-l's parents are hopeful, too as she is from around here.
Well, I must run. Hope to hear from you soon!
Karen, Thanks for letting me squat on your thread! GG
