Apparently I'm awesome at writing one post on a blog, and then abandoning it for a year. But then I'm also awesome at coming back. So here I am.
It's been quite a year. We're coming up on the year anniversary of my dad's heart attack, which was sort of the moment in time where things shifted. Thankfully he survived it just fine, but it still felt like a loss of innocence. It left me with the same feeling I had when we lost my grandpa to pancreatic cancer in 2006, like the rules changed on us without anyone letting us know this was going to happen. For a pretty complete chronicling of that journey, visit http://www.tomhardeman.blogspot.com/. Anyway, now here I stand on the other side of it, with a new worldview in which joy and sorrow are two sides of the same coin. Each influences the other; without each we we wouldn't have the other.
These are happy days I live in now though. Still praying for things to get easier on my folks, hoping that they can find a new version of their dream house and move out to Sierra Madre. But my life is filled with lots of laughter, and joy, beautiful friendships and love. Things I'd given up on, showed up at my door, with flowers, delicious snacks, and my favorite video game.
I'm still not sure about this blog business, or if I'll be able to come up with interesting things to write, or if anyone will ever read it, but I feel like I have stories, and I want to tell them. So, wide world of the interweb (and probably mostly my parents and the occasional friend), hello.
6 comments:
Love the blog and love Joey without ever meeting him. Thanks for showing up with joy AND VIDEO GAMES!! How cool is that. Instant acceptance in the almost impossible to breach impregnable edifice we call "The Cousins". Rachel and Sam think it's awesome.
Oh, Kristin.......what a great time to chronicle the wonder of your life. Kind of like the "dear diary" I kept while dating your Grandpa. Enjoy every minute of the moment. I will definitely "peak"!!!
Bring it, Sister. You had me at "video games". And drinks. Oh, wait. You didn't talk about drinks? Well you should have.
i'm pretty sure you've got some stories to tell. I have no doubt they'll be entertaining. Now dish. Mom, how did you get your cool picture to show up in your box?
It's a little known fact that flowers and videogames are the way to a womans heart:) I'm looking forward to more of your blogging and for secretly competing with you on frequency of updates.
AHhhhh Sigh. Does my heart good to read this k. LOVE it... Even with our million emails today, I apparently can't get enough of ya! : )
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