Here We Go Again!

Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Hope you are all having a great holiday. Here is a big shout out to all Veterans! Thank you Thank you Thank you for our freedom and for your sacrifices. Words really can't express how thankful we are.

I made it through the first year on my own. I walked on the beach under a full moon on the anniversary of Rick's death. I know the moon was beautiful where I was and I can't even imagine how beautiful it is from heaven.

I guess there are some of you out there that haven't heard that I had an offer on the house this past week. Actually I got two offers and as I said earlier, I just felt that it would happen on the anniversary weekend. I did accept one of the offers and the closing is set for June 20th. YIKES ! Now...the plan....what was the plan?? Of course I have been at this point before and that time it didn't work out so I am just a little gun shy. It was a good offer and I am fortunate to have been able to sell in such a depressed market. I have to assume that it will work out this time and the cats and I will be on the streets in 26 days. This will be a very difficult move for me. Leaving OUR house and OUR yard and OUR garden and the memories associated with the house. The good memories I will hang on to and the bad (illness related) I will try to forget.

I will also miss all the great friendships that I have made here. I don't know what I would have done without my support group!! My girls were always there for me. The neighbors I have had here were great too. So I will be leaving a lot of familiar faces, my fitness center, my church, my bell choir, Choir...etc. My routine. I guess I can honestly say that I won't rule out moving back here only into a smaller place. I will, for the meantime, move to Arkansas to be closer to mom for awhile. Most of my stuff will be in storage here in Alabama until I know where I will end up after that. I assume it will be somewhere in Louisiana. I still plan on running the roads quite a bit to see all of my family and friends as often as I can. I also have some old friends that are there for me and they don't care where I live they just love me anyway.

I will keep you posted on the crazyness that will be my life for the next few weeks!

The Day

Those of you close to me know what that means. When I count the days it comes up to 351 days today. So by the actual Calendar date, May 18th, it will be 353 days. All I know is that it seems like today should be the actual day since it is a Friday and it was on a Friday last year, May 18th, that my world stopped revolving around him. Sometimes I think it stopped revolving at all but I know that isn't true. As the blog title says, Life Goes On, whether we are ready to go on or not. Funny how life is. Doors open, Doors close, more doors open. People come into you life and go out and a lot of times you have no control over it.

I have enjoyed so many happy times with my Children, Grandchildren, and precious friends during the past year. I just returned home from a wonderful trip to Louisiana on Wednesday after celebrating Delaney's 8th birthday and Mother's day with Angie and Keri and their families. They never cease to let me know how loved I am and for that I am truly grateful. Thank you all for loving me :-)

Today I have a Red Hat Luncheon at the Country Club here in Athens. We will eat dessert first (my favorite)(especially since I have been on Nutrisystem for a month now) and we will dress in Red and Purple and wear big floppy hats and purple boas. Then I will come home and work in my yard and garden.

They have scheduled an open house on Sunday here. I will be gone so the cats will have to behave. Say a prayer that a buyer for my house comes to the open house. I am driving to the beach for the weekend after picking up my "almost sister" at the airport. I thought that I should be in a happy place for the weekend and celebrate the renewal of my spirit (I have actually survived a whole year) by being in a place that Rick loved so much. SO, I chose the beach where we walked hand in hand so many times. I'm sure he will be walking there with me too, I just won't see him. He will probably pass however on the outlet mall shopping trips...ha ha The weather is going to be beautiful and we will have a wonderful trip. She is going back home on Wednesday so I don't know how many days we will stay at the beach (but it is never long enough!)

Tah tah for now