It has been a longer than hoped for hiatus from this blog.
So much has transpired, and yet, it's only been just under 2 months since my last post.
Yet, in that short time, so much has changed, with way more to come:
My dear sweet brother-in-law, who had been ailing for quite some time, had his health take a nosedive and it became obvious his time was very limited. My husband flew up to Northern Washington and spent just over a week with him, with me and my (step)father-in-law flying up for a very quick 1 day visit. The day after my husband came back home, his brother passed at the beginning of May, just two days before the celebration of life for their late Mom. At that event, a hummingbird came into the entryway of the garage, and flew up against the shop light for almost 5 minutes. I knew it had to be him.
That celebration was very sorrowful and yet a wonderful reunion of family. My two (half) sisters came from Chicago, and my (step)father-in-law had his granddaughter, who he hadn't seen in probably 25 years, fly in from Missouri. Along with other dear family-like friends from Minnesota, it was a wonderful, painful, bittersweet celebration. None of the family from Washington could come, and we did include those who were unable to attend by Zoom as we interred her ashes on their land.
Having had our oldest home for 2 weeks before that, and our youngest with us for a week afterwards was a wonderful salve for the hurt and pain of losing such a tremendous presence (and my husband's only brother).
After returning home, our youngest gave us the most tremendous Mother's Day and 40th wedding anniversary gift, and took us to SingleThread, a renowned three star Michelin treasure that was just named one of the top 50 restaurants in the world. It did not disappoint; instead, it exceeded our expectations!
Then, after a lovely Anniversary day which began with looking at possible rings for us to get (we haven't yet), and a tremendous meal at our favorite French bistro in town, we began to prepare for a total re-landscaping of our front yard, which was just completed this week. It's glorious, even though we had two days of near 100 degree temps (trying desperately to keep those new trees wet to give them a good start), it's looking amazing.
In the midst of that, I had three callbacks, only two of which I could attend and I have gotten a firm FUVM on one of them. And not sure anything is forthcoming about those. AND during that time, I finished and submitted my script for the retreat in France, and had a reading of my play by five amazing professional actors in my house, who generously provided so much great feedback, that bring it back to the drawing board.
And the cherry on top is my best friend will be moving to Boston in the fall. I'm so excited for her, and it's great place to visit since my youngest is there, but it's going to be so lonely here without her.
I guess it's true - the only thing that is constant is CHANGE.
