Best therapy I know.
It was doughnut Sunday at church so I got to sit down and talk to people afterwards. The kids ran away to play in the nursery, and I sat and picked at a doughnut and felt like a human being again.
Melissa and Chris invited me to dinner last night, and when I got there Hannah and T.O.M. and their kids were there too, and I got to vent for a while and tell Mark's story. And then someone suggested that we play euchre, which is my very favorite card game, so T.O.M. and Chris and 10-y-o Meira and I played while Hannah read and Melissa put the baby down to sleep. Every player at the table was at least a little bit rusty, so we played a few open hands and I chattered color commentary to Meira, explaining the differences between the left and the right, the bury and the bowers (bauers? bars? depends where you're from), how to keep score with a six and a four, and never trump your partner's ace. By the end of that game I felt almost normal again, thank goodness.
And today Margaret in Minnesota invited me and my brood over for lunch! And I had a lovely time, and she fed me cashews and soup and guacamole and chicken curry salad sandwiches and red bell pepper strips and cilantro-lime-flavored chips and plain chips and peanut-butter-filled pretzels and orange-peel-scented dark chocolate.
She's an over-achiever, that one is. Oh, did I mention that she sent me more soup for my dinner? So now I don't have to cook tonight, which is good, because I didn't go to the store and my house is a wreck.
And can you believe it? Neither one of us thought of taking a picture to prove the event really happened. *sigh*
("Mom?" said Oscar as I carried the soup to the car. "You traded Grandma's peaches for vegetable soup?"
"Sort of, I guess," I said, since I had brought a couple of quarts of Mark's mom's home-canned peaches to offer for lunch.
"Mom," said Oscar, "that wasn't a very good trade for us."
I said, "I don't know, Oscar, it's pretty darn good soup." You can't eat peaches ALL the time.)
Anyway… I'm feeling much better now. Thanks everyone.
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