It is only two days away from Thanksgiving, and nearly half a year since Mike died. Seems impossible that he has been gone that long! It certainly is lonely without him here everyday! The realization, though, that I had 27 great years with him is also with me everyday!
It has been several weeks since I have posted, mostly because I hate to be a whiner!
I did make some window treatments for my friend, Barb, and I believe she really likes them. Also, it is very good therapy to create something! Aside from the valances, it is always nice to spend time with someone who has been a friend for so many years! It is also hard to believe we are old enough to say we have been friends for over 35 years!!
From Barb's, I drove up to Carolina Beach, NC, where my younger son lives. Going to your child's home is also good therapy because they are always so happy to see you. His girlfriend and her children are also delightful and make me feel like they are delighted to see me.
This is a lovely little town, right on the Atlantic Ocean and is cool, but not freezing! By the way, if you ever get down this way, be sure to visit the Treehouse Bistro (run by Two Wine Guys at The Grind)! A lovely little coffee house, wine bar and tapas restaurant. The food is great and the atmospere is such that you cannot help but have a great deal of fun!
Last Wednesday, I drove up to Virginia Beach, VA to spend a little time with my husband's brother and wife. The drive up was beautiful since all the leaves are turning color - and it certainly isn't something you see much of in Florida! Aside from taking a wrong turn somewhere in North Carolina and going in about a 60 mile circle, the trip was just fine.
My brother and sister-in-law were just as nice as they could be. I know it was hard for my brother-in-law since Mike was his only sibling and didn't get the chance to see Mike before he died. Anyway, we had a lovely visit, they were very generous with the wine and we shared great memories!
Back in Carolina Beach now, we will be having an oyster roast to kick off the Thanksgiving weekend (I don't know what an oyster roast is, but Shawn assures me it will be good - and fun).
Several things have come to me in the last week however. One is that God surely does work in mysterious ways! While in Lakewood for my 50th high school reunion, I reconnected with a woman with whom I had gone through jr. high and high school. She became an Episcopal minister (and, yes, that long ago we would never have thought that would be her "calling"!) and is now at St. Simon's By The Sea in Virginia Beach, VA. Well, on Sunday, I attended her service (and everyone should go once - it is a little tiny church - very friendly - and she is absolutely wonderful!). After church, she not only treated me to lunch, but her church made an extremely generous donation to my journey! I am definitely a very lucky person.
The second thing is that I find a am absolutely terrible at doing nothing (I am even getting tired of NOT working out - it seems I gave it up when Mike died - so December 1 is that day to return to that!!). While I am looking forward to continuing my journey, I think I will have to find something constructive to do along the way. Perhaps I will try to contact Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter to see if I could volunteer at Habitat for Humanity along the way, thereby killing two birds with one stone, so to speak.
So, thanks for listening, have a wonderful Thanksgiving, and be sure to hug everyone you care about. Ricci
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