Thank you very much for your kind posts, Tilly Cat, Scouts girl & malengwa.
I find it so helpful, reading of others' experiences, though I am sorry that we are all in this boat of having lost a loved parent.
I had an awful night, waking at 3.am and unable to get back off till gone six. John has just taken the car out now to take my elder sister & her daughter & grand-daughter from their seafront hotel to the railway station for their long train journey south. My sister rang me this morning - she also had a disturbed night, waking at 4.30 and unable to sleep after that. The other two 'girls' slept badly too. But the fog has lifted today and the sun is shining over the sea - literally, and metaphorically. A new day...
It was lovely to see our big family again - six brothers and sisters, with spouses & some of The Next Generation - but also very unsettling. I totally agree that it's a strange place for the mind to be in, and surreal too. I am going into married-hermit mode this weekend to try and recuperate a little. Nothing at all will be happening on the Organisational Front until next week.
I find it so helpful, reading of others' experiences, though I am sorry that we are all in this boat of having lost a loved parent.
I had an awful night, waking at 3.am and unable to get back off till gone six. John has just taken the car out now to take my elder sister & her daughter & grand-daughter from their seafront hotel to the railway station for their long train journey south. My sister rang me this morning - she also had a disturbed night, waking at 4.30 and unable to sleep after that. The other two 'girls' slept badly too. But the fog has lifted today and the sun is shining over the sea - literally, and metaphorically. A new day...
It was lovely to see our big family again - six brothers and sisters, with spouses & some of The Next Generation - but also very unsettling. I totally agree that it's a strange place for the mind to be in, and surreal too. I am going into married-hermit mode this weekend to try and recuperate a little. Nothing at all will be happening on the Organisational Front until next week.