A New Day Dawns
Well, here I am in North Carolina. Pretty much settled into my new home. Just a few more pictures to hang! I love it here. The trees in my backyard are beautiful and the birds sing me a song of joy every morning.
I guess you all would like an update on my life. I divorced my husband of 35 years on June 10 and began the journey of my lifetime. On June 23, I tearfully drove away from Oklahoma - not because I hated leaving Oklahoma, but because I was grieving the death of a marriage. Me the so-call healer just couldn't fix this one. I had recited the Serenity Prayer many times over the past weeks "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." So off I went changing what I could. There were times when I thought my heart would break completely in two, but it didn't and here I am moving on and loving my life more every day.
I took the long way to NC - spent one night with my lifelong friend, Bonnie, one night with my sweet niece, Mitizi, and saw all the family in Dallas, then on to spend 3 nights with my twin - sister/niece, Sherry and her husband, Ron, in their new home in Mississippi. The next step of the journey took me to Columbus, SC where I met Yvette and precious little Bella and spent a couple of days just enjoying them. Then on to the last leg of my journey and arrived in Wilson on June29. Little Jesse and Mark had taken a shorter route and were there to greet me - already enjoying my new home for a week before I arrived. The dogs were already settled in and adjusting well to their new home.
What a joy it has been to have, Amber, Raymond, and Jasmine just popping in for breakfast, dinner or whatever -- having Jasmine spend the night - something I have never had the privilege of before. I think I have cooked more meals in the past month than I have in years - Amber is catching up on all the things I used to cook when she was home!
Mark stayed until July 11 and helped bunches. I am hoping he will move out this way soon. Yvette is just down the road so we can visit often and I am really going to get to watch Bella grow up. What fun. Attending school functions - plays - whatever it is that "Nanas" really do!
Now if I just had Milinda and her bunch in my back pocket, life would be complete. Washington State is just too far away! But love covers all the miles and love is all there really is anyway.
Anyway, I'm looking for a job - so everyone wish me luck. I have to laugh at my resume - when they ask the wages on my next to the last job and I have to say I made $400. a month - man that was good wages a hundred years ago.
Enough rambling for now. I have a life to live.
I guess you all would like an update on my life. I divorced my husband of 35 years on June 10 and began the journey of my lifetime. On June 23, I tearfully drove away from Oklahoma - not because I hated leaving Oklahoma, but because I was grieving the death of a marriage. Me the so-call healer just couldn't fix this one. I had recited the Serenity Prayer many times over the past weeks "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." So off I went changing what I could. There were times when I thought my heart would break completely in two, but it didn't and here I am moving on and loving my life more every day.
I took the long way to NC - spent one night with my lifelong friend, Bonnie, one night with my sweet niece, Mitizi, and saw all the family in Dallas, then on to spend 3 nights with my twin - sister/niece, Sherry and her husband, Ron, in their new home in Mississippi. The next step of the journey took me to Columbus, SC where I met Yvette and precious little Bella and spent a couple of days just enjoying them. Then on to the last leg of my journey and arrived in Wilson on June29. Little Jesse and Mark had taken a shorter route and were there to greet me - already enjoying my new home for a week before I arrived. The dogs were already settled in and adjusting well to their new home.
What a joy it has been to have, Amber, Raymond, and Jasmine just popping in for breakfast, dinner or whatever -- having Jasmine spend the night - something I have never had the privilege of before. I think I have cooked more meals in the past month than I have in years - Amber is catching up on all the things I used to cook when she was home!
Mark stayed until July 11 and helped bunches. I am hoping he will move out this way soon. Yvette is just down the road so we can visit often and I am really going to get to watch Bella grow up. What fun. Attending school functions - plays - whatever it is that "Nanas" really do!
Now if I just had Milinda and her bunch in my back pocket, life would be complete. Washington State is just too far away! But love covers all the miles and love is all there really is anyway.
Anyway, I'm looking for a job - so everyone wish me luck. I have to laugh at my resume - when they ask the wages on my next to the last job and I have to say I made $400. a month - man that was good wages a hundred years ago.
Enough rambling for now. I have a life to live.
posted by Ilene @ 6:57 PM
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