A Note Of Thanks

The beauty via elbphoto. Just gorgeous, isn’t it?

For more than a year, our family life has been a little chaotic. Between multiple parental hospitalizations, the passing of my mother-in-law last October, and then the home health care we took on for my father-in-law shortly thereafter, it’s been a wee bit crazy here, to put it mildly. 

My writing and research time has suffered for it because family had to come first. 

For that, I’m sorry, but it is what it is.

And yet?  You all have stuck it out with me through thick and thin, and I wanted to take a moment this morning to say thank you.

So many of you have sent little notes of encouragement and greeted me in the comments with a cheery howdy on even the most abysmal of days.  And some of you have given me profound insights into how you and your families have dealt with similar circumstances.  

It has meant the world to me, and I wanted all of you to know that.

All of the bluster and travel of the last few weeks has been a family process to prepare a sort of "grandpa timeshare," as it were, so that my FIL could move to live with my brother-in-law’s lovely family for a few months. 

We’re at that stage in life where time is precious, and the other grandkids deserved time to love him, too.  We miss him here, but we know how much love he’s getting there.  That makes a world of difference.

So much of what we all do every day is to hope for something better for ourselves and our families.  Knowing we have all been walking that path together, reaching out a hand when it was needed? 

Makes it all the sweeter when things have gone well, and more cushioned when they haven’t.

I’ll need a bit of recharge time to get my old, snarky writing sea legs back — am, understandably I think, exhausted.

But, rest assured, I’m itching for some snarky action.  If there are topics I haven’t covered that you’d love to see more in depth, please let me know.  It feels as though I’m emerging from a bit of a fog and I’m sure I’ve missed something substantial along the way that I really need to tackle.  As always, your comments and thoughts are important to me, and I’d love to know what you want me to dig into here.

A big thank you to all of you.