Today was one of those family days. It brought good news and tough times. On our way moving my wife’s step-father from one memory care facility to another we got a phone call from our son-in-law telling us he’d just landed the super new job he’d been aiming for.
Mixed emotions all round. Tough and tumble rough emotions dealing with the memory care move. Eating at our guts while working my wife’s brain overtime dealing with the mechanics, logistics, and practical necessities of the move that thanks to our government’s health care policies is nothing but unnecessary.
Then the thrill of knowing our son-ln-law was rewarded for his hard work and ambition as he and my daughter’s new family continue building their future and those of our grandchildren.
We wept tears of two very distinct and different tastes all at once during that 20-minute drive. But then, I think that’s why we need to take life one day at a time, one adventure at a time, one tragedy, and one victory at a time, even if they sometimes overlap in strange ways on strange days
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