It's been kind of a strange week. A GREAT week, but also one filled with ups and downs.
Rob flew to DC Sunday afternoon for business meetings and a day later Ally flew back to meet him for a week of fun. So happy for both of them to spend this time together and for Ally to enjoy such a great great city.
I was lucky enough to have TLB stay after the farewell.... soo blessed am I to have her for a mother! Every time I say goodbye to her it gets harder. Here I am in my late 40's and I bawl like a baby when I drive away from her home or when I drop her off at the airport. It was more difficult than I could have imagined when she left today.
Today, I'd dropped her off, hugged her and cried.... as I drove away and she was walking into the airport doors she never stopped waving. I was planning to maybe go to a movie later with friends, so I decided to drive over to the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and buy a caramel apple we could split amongst each other during the movie. I took the long way back... the road that goes behind the airport... I didn't really feel like driving 80 mph with all the other cars on the freeway. When I got to the intersection north of the airport I was waiting at the light and looked up the hill toward the airport and saw a Delta plane taxi-ing down the runway and waiting to take off. It was the exact time my mom's plane would be taking off and I just knew it was hers. I pulled over and watched it ascend into the sky and cried and cried.... and thought about my mom... and how I can't imagine life without her.... and here I sit typing, crying all over again.
Whenever she leaves my house my mom leaves a note hidden somewhere.... not really hidden.... but discreet enough that I don't always find it right away. Today it was on a chalkboard I had sitting on the counter and I had a container sitting on top of it. She knew that when I went to move it there would be her sweet, loving note to me... and that it would be just what I'd need.
A few days ago my mom and I were out shopping...
Rob flew to DC Sunday afternoon for business meetings and a day later Ally flew back to meet him for a week of fun. So happy for both of them to spend this time together and for Ally to enjoy such a great great city.
I was lucky enough to have TLB stay after the farewell.... soo blessed am I to have her for a mother! Every time I say goodbye to her it gets harder. Here I am in my late 40's and I bawl like a baby when I drive away from her home or when I drop her off at the airport. It was more difficult than I could have imagined when she left today.
Today, I'd dropped her off, hugged her and cried.... as I drove away and she was walking into the airport doors she never stopped waving. I was planning to maybe go to a movie later with friends, so I decided to drive over to the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and buy a caramel apple we could split amongst each other during the movie. I took the long way back... the road that goes behind the airport... I didn't really feel like driving 80 mph with all the other cars on the freeway. When I got to the intersection north of the airport I was waiting at the light and looked up the hill toward the airport and saw a Delta plane taxi-ing down the runway and waiting to take off. It was the exact time my mom's plane would be taking off and I just knew it was hers. I pulled over and watched it ascend into the sky and cried and cried.... and thought about my mom... and how I can't imagine life without her.... and here I sit typing, crying all over again.
Whenever she leaves my house my mom leaves a note hidden somewhere.... not really hidden.... but discreet enough that I don't always find it right away. Today it was on a chalkboard I had sitting on the counter and I had a container sitting on top of it. She knew that when I went to move it there would be her sweet, loving note to me... and that it would be just what I'd need.
A few days ago my mom and I were out shopping...