saying hello and Merry Christmas to all my WW Sisters .
Haven't been around lately as I feel I'm not strong enough to help anyone , been a rough year all in all ,
too many weepy moments .
Wishing you all a happy healthy 2012 , hope to see you all next year .
Peace on earth , goodwill to all men .............sending hugs .
Hi everyone,
Just want to join LL and wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I have not posted in a while, but read faithfully every day. My situation is worse than last Christmas, I have seen odd and gd 4 times this past year, now she does not want me to have anything to do with gd. My heart is breaking and I know many of you are in the same position, and it is going to be difficult to get through Christmas. I will be spending it with ydd and her dh and my 2 grandsons, but there is still a big hole in my heart for odd and gd.
Let us all make the best of it, and hope and pray that 2012 will bring better times.
Jill
Yes Merry Christmas. I will be spending xmas with my sister and sending love to my two daughters. It was my ds's 40th birthday this month, and I have not seen him or my gc for nearly six years. So be it. I have been and can live with it. I will enjoy Christmas. I have been. The lights, the smell of pine, Christmas music especially, the prayers. I have been cooking up a storm for me, friends, and sis.
Funny, I don't much care about shopping at Christmas anymore either - saves me lots and lots of money that's for sure! Sent everyone Heifer goodies and will give DDs and Sis some small things, mostly from second hand stores as that is what *they* like. I paid for their trip out to where I am this past summer, and we had vacation time together (what a disaster...all the way around-won't be doing that again anytime soon!).
No, I am content this year and though I am saddened at times, I know I will be okay. It is up to me to observe Christmas with rejoicing which moves my Spirit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S02KOlw7dlA
:-*
A Happy Christmas to all!
Merry Christmas LL and all the wonderful ladies here! I know it's been a hard year LL, but you have come out a better person, armed with knowledge because of it. You have continually amazed me with your strength to take the high road. We love you here and will support you in anything. You my girlie!
Jane, I love love love your attitude (high five!).
Glad to see you still hanging around Jill!
Great video, Jane!
thank you Pooh .....love you too ....<3
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Best wishes to all WW for a fulfilling, peaceful, wondrous holiday and new year.
Best Wishes for the Holidays to all of you. I am soooo happy I found you guys. Makes me sad to realize so many of us are sad but I'm glad we are here for one another and we understand what we are all going thru.
x?x
Christmas blessings for you too Lancaster Lady and to all my wwu family. I hope that this 2012 will bring better things or situations for of us.... I pray that those who are hurting will find peace, love, health and strength. Nothing is forever, not even pain. I will have you in my heart throughout all these days. Lets make the best of this Christmas....
Love you all
Happy Holidays to all of you as well! May the New Year bring new and happy things :)
Merry Christmas from me, too. For the New Year, I hope all the sad ones can get mad instead and all the mad ones can let it go and move on to enjoy the rest of their lives. (I'm somewhere between mad and moving on...) Here's to a great 2012!
LOL Doe! But how true
Coming up to midnight on Christmas Eve ........many many best wishes to you all .
discovered my meds were making me v depressed , have ditched them meanwhile , let the
festivities commence ...............you are never alone with WWU , remember that .
sending love to Luise , you'll never know how many ladies you have saved with your forum ,
and Kirk of course , you are a knight in shining armour .
Wishing you all a very happy Christmas xxxxxx
Merry Christmas Wise Ladies,
I am happy about Christmas even though I will spend it without my AD and Grandson. However, I have learned through all this that love can come from other sources and pray that my AD and Grandson are finding love in their lives too!
Hoping everything is going well with you LL. Missing you!
Dearest Pooh !
wishing you a Happy Healthy 2012 !
Hard to explain really , healthy enough , just in a fragile state for no reason whatsoever !
Hormones perhaps ?
Pick yourself up , dust yourself off and start all over again .......I am singing this song , but can't dance
like Ginger Rogers ....lol
I'll be back !!
love you Pooh ...x
Love you too LL! We'll be here!
Yes, we're here for ya LL, whenever you need us. Keep dusting!
Quote from: lancaster lady on January 05, 2012, 07:15:26 AM
Hard to explain really , healthy enough , just in a fragile state for no reason whatsoever !
Lancaster - take care of yourself. You're entitled to be in a fragile state. It's NOT for NO reason. The adjustment to news from the one son can't be expected to happen overnight, and the troubles with the other son and DIL naturally cause stress. So of course you're not wallowing in it, but you are entitled to feel what you feel, and take time to adjust.
Take care. We care.
you know Shelby ....this forum holds some of the kindest ladies on earth .
Your post reminds me of all the friends I have made, the kind you find and keep forever .
I suppose a New Year makes you reflect on the previous one , and it's one I'd like to forget .
My Ds got married and that held no happiness for me whatsoever , which in itself is sad .
I can't even look at the photos without feeling sad , how bad is that ? The reason ?
I still feel he married the wrong person ...time will tell .
My health hit rock bottom ....plus a load of financial worries .....a recipe for disaster .
This economic climate is a killer for self employed people , especially when you can't see a light at the end
of the tunnel ...:(
I can't even paint ....I have to be in a happy place to paint .
Enough of this wallowing ...something will happen to lift my spirits I know .......hope it comes soon .
Meanwhile I thank you lovely ladies for caring , sharing and just being there , and most of all understanding ,
it means a lot .Thankx .
LL, it might start with a nice cup of tea or a snuggle with your cat...and build from there.
I was having a really sad time after the holidays, lots of let downs and disappointments regarding family, work, business. One morning I decided to focus on making myself the best possible cappuccino, took it out to the patio and sat w/my long-suffering kitty. What is, is. But no one can take that 20 minutes of bliss from me!
Thanks Pen .. perhaps the winter weather of grey skies and dark days matches my mood , but I see the spring bulbs pushing through the soil . A sign of growth , new beginnings and life . I'm at the next stage methinks , ready to retire and travel .... problem is to move on I have to get rid of the old , and there is nobody on the horizon who wants to buy ! I love kitties , I.used to breed Persians many moons ago , now I have a llasa Apso pooch , who sleeps with us ....lol . She is a character and loves to perform and show off .....cute as a button .
LL,
A system that might work for you:
Years ago, I read a book called "The Artist's Way". She recommended that you spend time in the morning writing 3 pages of anything in long hand. Then at some point in the day you spend time deliberately filling your bucket with some aesthetic or something that inspires. (getting it out and pulling it back in)
A quote from her website is: "In order to retrieve your creativity, you need to find it. I ask you to do this by an apparently pointless process I call the morning pages."
I'm not a follower but she came to mind when I read your message.
Thankyou Doe ,
I kinda use WWU as my ''mourning pages ''...you guys usually get all my woes , and yes it helps me
enormously.
I don't think I could bore you every day though ....but I know you are all there , and that's a comfort .
I'm getting there ...thanks for caring ... :)
I understand LL. I haven't been able to paint in a couple of years. I pull the stuff out, sit down and go "blah". I tried to make myself and the picture turned out totally horrible. So I packed everything up and put it away, knowing that I will pull it out again someday, when I feel inspired. But, it's been driving me bonkers to not do something artistic, so at Christmas, I took up crocheting. My Mother has done it for years and I'm always in awe of her beautiful afghans and such. So, I took my happy hiney down to the local hobby store, bought some yarn, a couple of crochet hooks and youtubed a beginner afghan.
It's given me such delight to sit down for an hour in the evenings, right before bed and crochet. It's starting to look really nice and I feel like I'm using some artistic talent! Lol.
So, put the paints away for now and find another outlet! You can do it!