I can't believe it has been since March
I didn't know that I had been away for so very long. I am in the process of healing. I am working very hard with my psychologist and with Paul to snap out of things. Mostly, I try to focus on the positive and stay away from the negative. Therapy is definitely helping these days. I don't know what I would do without it. I always feel comfortable there with whatever feelings I am having that day.Paul and I have had a visitor to our house, Flat Stanley. Flat Stanley is a paper doll that was sent to us by my niece, Mandy. He came with instructions to send back information about Oregon. Well, Paul and I didn't think that sending just information was quite what we wanted to do. So, Flat Stanley has been going out places with us.
Flat Stanley went to the world's largest Costco, the Bonneville Dam, Multnomah Falls, and the fish hatchery. Flat Stanley went to work with me. Flat Stanley even took us to the coast and Newport. We went to the aquarium and to Devil's Punchbowl, Cape Foulweather, Depoe Bay and Lincoln City. Flat Stanley has had his picture taken at every spot we went. We are sending back brochures, kids activities, pictures, and movies of Flat Stanley. I know that Flat Stanley wants to go to Crater Lake too.
On are way to the coast, we stopped at the outlet mall in Lincoln City and remembered the last time Mom was there with us. And, we went to Cape Foulweather and looked at all the myrtlewood knowing it was her favorite. We stopped at the pottery store (a little house on a back road) and I felt the need to spend money there too. On the way home from the coast, Paul and I talked about how much Mom would have loved that weekend at the beach. We discussed how my brother never got out here to see what I know he would have loved. We did it without tears. We are healing. It is still hard to comprehend the losses we have suffered in the last year but we are healing.
Well, I better get back to work. Love to all from Paul, Louise and Flat Stanley
posted by Louise @ 8:43 AM
3 Comments:
So ..... where are the pictures? :)
Sounds like a great trip. So glad to know that you are healing, and that the memories are helpful rather than devestating. Actually that is much the same here.
Love, Dad
Glad to see you back in the blogosphere. I wondered what you guys were up to lately.
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