Just catching up a bit and saw that I'd missed your b-day, so I'm wishing you a happy belated one, tho it seems you did not need those wishes -- what a wonderful surprise party that was! Life beginning at 60, obviously!
I so appreciate how realistic and honest you are about your R w/ NG, it is so refreshing, I see some LBS latching onto things w/ rosy expectations only to be wrecked again later, I always have said it's not the love or caring that causes pain, it's our our own unrealistic expectations. People are only human after all and life is not a fairy tale, period. I do feel a bit like Adam and Eve post-apple having that kind of knowledge now but seems it's something one does eventually have to learn and accept at some point.
Loved the stories of your IL visiting and prezzies, how lovely. Also nice to have a casual not-so-upheaving contact from H, eh. And great to hear he's consented to a meeting w/ Ss w/o OW.
Looking forward to hearing more mad plans for the upcoming holidays . . . think I'll get my tree this weekend myself. Always interesting wrassling a six- or seven-foot balsam pine up a flight of stairs by myself, I really should get a video of it to keep for laughs.
