Letters to Mom: Old Friends

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Journaling and Reconciliation.

After many years of estrangement from my family, my husband-to-be influenced me to gather up the "ties that bind". The result was healing of old battered emotions and the beginning of the best years of my life. I reconciled with my mother, ran away to Central Texas and married the man of my dreams. I did one rash thing, just the one time and the effects were astonishing.

At first we worked together at starting-salary, physically demanding jobs until it became quite obvious his mother, having been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, could no longer be at home alone. We became self-employed on a rotating basis, when one works the other is always at home. His mother's condition has progressed to the point that she is in the Hospice program, and our plan is to keep her at home for the rest of her life.

I began a journal in May of 2006, writing several times a week, printing the results and sending them off to my mother, who didn't have a computer. Knowing I had promised to get the letters out motivated me to make those entries in my journal.

Sometimes a week passes, or a month or a year and you tend to wonder "What happened? How did that much time slip away? What was I doing?". Reading entries in my Journal, now I know.

I was busy.

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