I still hurt but it is very manageable. :-). Loss is suppose to hurt and getting over a loss takes time and I am on my way. Still, I felt the post itself was a stain - and I take that as a good sign of progress.
I spent the afternoon with my Mom today - brought her home made chicken soup and also a roasted chicken dinner for tonight with sweet potato, roasted carrots, turnip casserole and cranberry sauce - all of her favorites. She is doing well - her new normal is less than before she went in to the hospital. She tires quickly, moves a lot slower and requires assistance with daily tasks - but all in all? She is doing fine. I say this with the deepest gratitude and joy. Praise be...
Skipp and I are still savoring and enjoying our time together. We laugh heartily every day, many times. Glorious. :-)
And so once again, I say "thank you" to all of you, for all my blessings and for being able to feel what I have a right to feel. I feel love, sadness, joy, fear, blessed, doubt, passion, understood, misunderstood, and the full spectrum of emotions that life demands.
Still -it was time to get rid of the stain from my blog. and maybe in doing so it wiped some of the same from my heart.
