Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays!  It’s been almost two months since I’ve posted here, forgive me.  We all get busy during the holidays, but I was also working a lot of overtime.  People helped me have time off I needed so I tried to help others have the time off they needed, and the hours added up!  I worked 60 hours the week of Christmas.

We have one get together, my husband’s family of about 40 gets together one day near Christmas.  This year my daughter hosted the gathering.  I think post cancer, I have become very aware of time and the passing of time.  At the gathering there were many children I didn’t know!  They were the children of my nieces and nephews.  I was remembering my niece being three years old when I met her and hiding behind her mothers legs when I approached as I was a stranger.  Now I think she is in her early 30s, has two children and is married for the second time with step-sons.  Another niece of mine has 5 children, another 3, another 2 more.  The children have come so fast and when I only see them once or twice a year I don’t know all of their names or even who they belong to!

My mother-in-law (we’ve dropped the “in-law” and I refer to her as mom) is in her 80s.  She was 10 years younger than I am now when I first met her.  I remember my children being infants when I first attended these family gatherings, now my eldest is almost 30.

Time passes so quickly.  And the older I get the more quickly time passes…the benefit to that is that winters finally seem shorter!

But I am more aware of time I believe related to my having cancer.  I think of how many experiences I have had in life and how many changes I’ve seen and all of the history I’ve witnessed.

I think that is a good thing.  I am blessed to have had all of this extra time.