HELLOOOOO, FF & SS.

I still peek in here now and then. Nice to hear from you both.

I hear the spring in those warm latitudes is coming along nicely.

My yard is visible but wet wet wet.

GC! What a pleasure to see you post my friend. I hope you are well. Yes, spring is lovely here this year after having a nice rainy season.

It is cold here ... 65 degree today.

-rh-

RH! How are you and your sweet wife?

I am good. Still employed and making more $ than before Dv plus I am interning to get my license as therapist. My W is finishing up her degree in business and probably we will plan to make baby after she is done with it . I might visit Orchid this summer after RollerSkating National. BTW: I need to update my 2 D skating picture. They are at Junior World Class level now.

I am thinking of joining local MB resource network. You look at your local M therapist and I could bet with you none of them using MB !.

How about you ?. How is M ?. We are still counting our blessing each day .

-rh-

So glad you are doing well. Surprisingly the M is coming along. Slowly but he continues to change for the better. I wish you all the success in the world with your new career!

RED HAT !!!

So good to hear from you. Glad your DD's are still doing well, and it sounds like you and the lady are just fine.

Thanks for the update !!

SS

Gray,
I think about you from time to time, and wonder how you are. (How you REALLY are.) You sound good when you post, like you are happy, and well adjusted......... mostly.
OK, you sound fine, but it seems like there is still a little piece of something missing. It it all in my head?

Faithful, I know you didn't comment about my comment about having your family over for dinner.
I'll wait until you are making and talking about travel plans, and then invite you for real. Just don't take too long. Your DD will be grown all too soon.

SS

Hey, everybody!

2L told me MB evolved again so I thought I’d take a quick look, and then I saw the campfire near the top so I’m throwing on a log.

Hope everyone is doing well.

DS and I just returned from a week of spring skiing. It was good, very good.

Gray, my new word of the week is: fleigberg.

This new format gives me eyestrain.

With prayers,

Hey Appy !!
Good to hear from you too.

I am glad you take trips with the boy. That has to be good for you. How about with the W?

Do the two of you get to take trips too?

SS

Don't I know it! She babysat 3 kids on Saturday for several hours and did great. She is quite a blessing. I would love to be out your way. DS's health issues just don't seem to get better but worse. I pray for the chance to meet you and your W someday.

Hey Appy! Spring skiing sounds fun.

DS's health issues just don't seem to get better but worse.

This is not a fair question, and you don't have to answer, but what are the Dr's saying? Do you have high hope for him improving in the future, (even a little) or will it always be as it is now....... or worse?

Our DD's baby sit quite often too - usually the grand kids. They are good at it, and they enjoy it. I just hope they don't get burnt out with it. I keep telling them they don't have to do it if they don't want to, but they usually accept the responsibility.

How are things between you and MIL these days?

Sorry, but Questions come to me, so I ask.

I have lots more, but I'll stop for now.

SS

It's ok, SS. I miss your perspective. I don't think anyone knows what will happen with DS. We are moving toward surgery to put a feeding tube in. Hopefully that will end some of the health issues (though it opens a new world of potential problems ). Much of the trouble has been his lungs. Some of it they think he is aspirating but this last go round was his asthma. Good thing for him God made him so cute cuz he gets by on his looks and goodness.

MIL and I are still not speaking. Part of it is me, I acknowledge that. It is hard for me to forgive when she continues contact with xOW. Plus she pretty much has become the next OW in my life. She ignores DD to pursue H. Very sick and hard for me to overcome. I asked H for his input on how to open the door a crack and then let her respond. He believes she will never give an inch but at least then I can say I tried, right? I have to get hold of my anger where all this is concerned. Just seeing her number on the phone sets me off. I think if she showed an inkling of care toward my children it would not be so bad.

sigh...probably TMI for ya.

No, not too much. I was thinking about anger, and forgiveness, and that's what prompted the question.

It's difficult to know if lack of forgiveness prompts the distance, or the instinct to protect your children. (Meaning it may be hard for YOU to know what your own motive is.)

I tend to trust the instincts of mothers who are trying very hard to do what is right. However, it worries me that even seeing her number can set you off. I would like to see you at the point where you are thinking of ways TO HELP HER. To me that would mean you are where you want to be with this.

I don't want you to get hurt, and I don't want your children to get hurt. I think you are wise to consider all the sides to the problem. I do not have a solution in mind......... and I hope you don't take this discussion as a condemnation of how you are handling things. I always hope a discussion might shed light on a solution.

I have often wondered how Jesus could say "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." It is easy to see when one reads the narrative, that he meant what he said. It is not so easy to bring ones self to feel the same.

Keep talking to H about it, and keep praying. When solutions are needed, God holds all the cards, and he never makes mistakes.

As far DS goes........
All of us have our own cross to bear. Sometimes we understand them, sometimes we do not. I have learned to trust God on this part of life. We just do the best we can, and find a way to be happy in spite of the troubles. I sincerely hope things can improve for him, but if not......... we can still find joy in the journey. I am glad he has you, because I suspect it makes all the difference in the world.

The day will come when he will be able to stand and walk. It may not come in this life, but it will come. God's promises are sure.

Smile - you have friends who care.

SS

Hi SS and FF.

Yes, FF, spring skiing is why God made snow and inclined planes. I am sorry to read of DS’ health troubles. I’ll pray for him. I can’t imagine what you must go through.

SS, DS and I are pretty tight these days. He and I had a wonderful time in Greece and Italy all last summer, and I didn’t get on his nerves at all, lol. He is now a better skier than I. Well, he has more stamina and headlong fearlessness anyway. I can’t keep up with him. He starts his private pilot’s license next month. I’m getting current again too so we can fly together. It will be so cool. I am getting a new Harley, so DS gets the old one and we plan some summer road trips together. He’ll have his driver’s license by then. If he stays on the honor roll, that is.

FWW does not ski, but we do travel together. Spent most of a week together last month in AZ watching cactus league spring training games and playing golf with bigwigs. It was fun, combined with work.

Work is very exciting. Way lots to do and no time to do it. But it’s some of the most technically interesting stuff I have ever done, and I’m doing it with really smart people – we are breaking new state of the art ground here. I don’t even think of it as work.

I must limit my time on infidelity forums, though. Reading about adultery is a trigger for me. I tend to testiness for a while after I come here. I don’t watch much TV for the same reason. I suspect chronic extreme sensitivity to the shear idiocy of adultery is going to be with me for the rest of my life. I am still learning how to manage my condition, I guess.

But I do like to say hello every once in a while.

With prayers,

No, there is, still. I just don't like writing about it in public.

I am great though, really. Adrift and alone, but good.

I would like it if I had a nice girl to take kayaking with me.

Now, fleigberg, Aph? I give.

GC

What? You know not fleigberg?

You lived near one last year in Alaska.

I know fleigberg but everytime I read it I think of Dr. Zoidberg

See! Even Chrisner knows!

What kind of a geologist doesn't know a fleigberg when he sees one?

Now I have to quiz 2L, hee...


ed: Zoidberg is my favorite character. Did you know they are starting a new season? I think. I heard something to that effect anyway.

Wow. That hurt my feelgoods.