Life Happens

It's been very quiet around here for almost two months. It was my intention to keep up and post frequently and regularly. Life happened and it happened fast and hard and dirty and beautiful. I've sat down many times to write. I've started at least a dozen posts. Some of them I saved while others when directly to the trash can. Life gave me so much to think about, work out and live out that I just could not narrow any of that down to a post. That's not a complaint. It is life. However, I feel like I need to address those two vacant months.

My mother had serious surgery. To say this was not easy for me to deal with is the understatement of my life. Throw in the result of that surgery being that my mom had kidney cancer and wham! There's a reality for you. Having a special needs chronically ill adult sibling adds a special challenge to an already challenging situation. I made a point for a few weeks to be there in any way needed. It is one of the benefits of making working from home a priority. When your family and friends need you they need not feel guilty for calling you up and asking for help.

Once that situation looked like it was stabilizing we took a much needed long weekend to the family cabin. I simply cannot express how much we needed that escape. None of us can wait till we get back to the quiet and beauty and simplicity of that little cabin in the woods.

I've started working a new business. I needed a change and I found a company that gave me something different to do. It pushes me out of my comfort zone while also holding corporate priorities that match up with our family priorities. I've been spending time learning the business and slowly but surely building our business with them.

Colin and I celebrated 13 years of marriage.It's always a strange non-event for us because as a couple we make a point to do something special on the anniversary of our first date. That anniversary is coming up on 18 years. Sobering. This year's non-event of an anniversary actually had me at a business dinner celebrating our first business milestone and Colin working at his store. The celebration consisted of a store bought cake and a bottle of wine at 11 o'clock at night when we were finally both home.

So here we are at the beginning of summer. We've come through the long winter and the stormy spring. Things may not be a lush as we'd like but there is a warm comfort in the deep green and shade of the trees. And we stand, exhale and look up.

Where do you find yourself standing this summer?