So. The last eight months . . .

[katiemorris]

There have been big changes in my family. Especially in the States. My eldest daughter has split from her husband after ten years and one child and a very unhappy time, and has met and married a lovely American Professor of Psychology. This seemed to happen very quickly, to me, but I haven't been living near her for five years now, and although we are close, I've missed a lot of what has been going on in her life because she didn't want to worry me. So it all came as a bit of a shock really. Not a bad shock; her first husband and I never got on. He was an acountant and a really cold fish. Never showed emotion and tight as a duck's arse. I can't honestly say I ever liked or warmed to him. And the lack of affection is what has killed her marriage I think. I know they loved each other at the start, and they had the most lovely baby in the world two years ago, but none of that seems to have held them together.

However, the good news is that her new husband (she got married in Tenafly, New Jersey last Saturday) is a lovely, warm, emotional, intelligent man who adores both her and little Eleanor. I hope she will be happy. That's all I want for her, really.

Part of me feels a little sorry for the first husband, despite his lack of any emotion. I think it's for the best, all round, and I know he'll see his daughter as much as possible, there is no dispute about that, but still, he seems to have lost out all round.

So. That's two daughters married in two years. Two grandchildren born. And the third time I've been Mother of the Bride. I must see what I can do about posting some pictures.