- First the sad: I woke up to the sound of my father crying today. My uncle was the victim of a hit and run in January and has been in a rehabilitation hospital since late February. Though he’s made a tremendous amount of progress, we’re finding it difficult to face the reality of the situation. He will likely never walk or live on his own again. Oddly, my impulse is to immediately focus on the positive; a few months ago he didn’t even remember me. But, there’s no escaping how much everything about the situation sucks. Not that anyone ever deserves something like this, but my uncle has spent his whole life giving to other people and neither expecting nor receiving much of anything in return.
- Now a lil happy: In other news, has anyone seen “The First Wives Club?” It’s strange how easy I can identify with three middle age divorcées. & I love Diane Keaton so much. =)
- And some super-happy: The family I nanny for had their third child this morning. It’s a girl!!! I know it’s going to be insanely stressful once I go back to work, but for now I’m so excited. It’s nice to have a bit of sunshine amongst all this ickiness.
2/3 Happy
16 Saturday Jul 2011
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first of all, I so sorry about your uncle! I’ll say prayer for your family.
Also: oh wow, a newborn? that will be stressful but SO rewarding.
And is the First Wives Club a movie? Well, I’ll find out anyways, I am off to search for it on netflix; I’ve been craving a good movie lately 🙂
aww, the situation with your uncle is so sad. I’m so sorry. It’s good to focus on the positive! I prefer to do that, too, but at the same time I know what you mean–really accepting the reality of the bad can be difficult, especially without just letting it make you depressed and more negative than you should be.
I haven’t seen that movie, but it’s one of those I’ve always meant to.
Happy baby day! Yay! It will be stressful, but I’ve always loved watching other peoples babies 🙂
Thank you both. =) I took care of their son when he was a newborn too, so it (hopefully) won’t be too scary…I’m actually way more worried about the two year old’s reaction to the new baby.
Hannah-It’s an awesome movie with Goldi Hawn, Bette Midler, and Diane Keaton. It’s like an anti-romantic comedy.
Faith-Honestly, I’d never seen the whole movie until yesterday. And I know what you mean about watching other people’s babies…I jokingly refer to my job as “reverse rent-a-child.”