Has it really been over a year since I have felt like spouting my thoughts, opinions, concerns and frustrations? Clearly the blank spaces and my search to figure out how to even log into this blog would confirm that truth. Widowing has kept me much busier than I could have imagined. Living in a home with lots of manly toys requiring care and maintenance has provided some serious challenges. My sprinkler system is still not functional, but I'll have to tell you about that later.
My children have adapted to having only one parent now, although they sadly remind me occasionally that Dad would have taken care of that issue with little effort. One child suffered through a mid-life crisis, changed jobs, then asked me to form a company with him. It wasn't enough trauma to have watched a dog die just before losing one's own father, then a terrible accident totally destroying the most favored vehicle of all time, a marriage that just fizzled in the midst of personal wilderness, followed by the sale of the house that made him feel that he had "arrived". I had to write that all in one long sentence because I choose to discuss it no further.
The other child boldly confronts health issues as she goes about her busy life. She provided me with three grandchildren and all have left the nest now. She and spouse are celebrating the empty nest by moving to a new nest. Convinced that they have evolved from the hands-on parenting habit into re-creating a house built soon after they were born. Both habits spring from hope to develop an end product that will never really end.
I checked one bucket list trip off my list with journey to Israel early this summer and I am considering embarking on another trip next year. That is still up in the air.
About the company I was asked to form with my son. He is working really hard and the company may show a real profit soon. Meanwhile he has fallen in love, and she brought along two dogs. The jury is still out on the critters, but the girl is delightful.
