Forgetting to come back and write trend...
So I left off at 2017 with Days 2 and 3 of our honeymoon and didn't come back to write. Shows how much of priority reflecting is, maybe it is time to really sit down and write. However I keep coming back to the line "how can you sit down to write when you haven't stood up to live?" I'm trying to live a great life with my wife right now. We are approaching our 2nd anniversary in July.
I had the intention of coming on here to reflect about our recent trip to Disney but it just suddenly hit me that the past year and 4 months have been a crazy, life changing time for us and our families. In a nutshell:
-My wife has had two miscarriages since June 2018. We are fine but it's never easy to hear this news and go through that pain. Ever.
-My Mom and Dad have gone through boughts of cancer. Prostate for Dad. Breast for Mom. Mom had a partial lupectomy and it was one of the most tense, emotionally raw days of our lives. Dad, Celeste, Mom's friend Carol and I were there to be with her. Lots of love that day and she's been fine since! Her hair is growing back and it's beautiful!!! Dad's prostate cancer was treated with radiation and now that treatment has made him sick in the gastrointestinal area. He's on the mend and it's "normal" for this to occur due to radiation. My parents are both proactive with their health and that's great. I think maybe this time it was alittle overboard with the treatments they both requested.
-My dad, an only child adopted in 1950, found his family 69 years later. Can you believe it? I've never seen him happier! It's been an epic saga of a discovery but he's happier and not as negative about life by finding out there is someone else out there he has a connection with in a new family. He's the oldest of 6 siblings. His birth mother is gone and so is his father and we have reason to believe his mom had a boyfriend and had Dad before she settled down with his siblings' father. So technically, he's half-brother with all his siblings but does it matter? Maybe to him but I think it's given him a new outlook on life.
Those three big events have been our plus year so far....more for later. Time for bed.