by Cathy | submitted on November 25, 2007
My three children all left after a different kind of Thanksgiving. Different from hearing the words, mommy, daddy, now there are times of little words, sleep-ins until eleven, and sharing everyone with obligations and peers.
But I am doing so much better than the last time they all left and me and me sat in the kitchen crying and stuck.
This time I planned ahead and even wrote it down so I had something for me besides tears. I had magazines, a phone call planned with a friend who doesn’t live near by and my journal. I even had treats which for me are new candles, one new CD, and a movie to get lost in….Dead Poets Society.
Hats off to me, I am changing and actually liking my own space! I will see them in about three weeks. New lists for me as far as what I need and what I can give. This season I am not going into debt and I am not going to forget to make some time that is meaningful for me, like volunteering to help my neighbor by taking her to the market, raking her leaves, and getting one of those “fake” candles for her so she sees some light but doesn’t burn down.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF US WHO ARE CHANGING
Cathy
Natalie Caine, M.A. natalie@lifeintransition.org
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