A New Greeting

This is what greeted me when I came home from work yesterday. My daughter had been spending the day at our house and was there to greet me upon returning home from work with this sunflower. There's something about sunflowers that make me smile. They are not my favorite flower but they are a ray of light.  My daughters are always my rays of light. I miss them being at home and greeting me or going on errands with me. The conversations we used to have in the van, in the kitchen, sitting on the sofa and during our meal times. It was a sunflower of a day to have Hannah be there when I got home and to have conversation with as we ate dinner and as we were sitting on the sofa - her with her cross-stitch project and I with my crochet project. A moment in time. I used to take those moments for granted. I have such amazing memories of the moments I had with my daughters.

Now I still have those moments but they are few and far between since they no longer live at home. Now most of our moments are through Skype, through "What's App" - sending videos, pictures and texting.  A different era in our lives for sure. I am very thankful for these tools that help us to stay connected.

New greetings, new memories, new moments, new ways of communicating........sometimes "new" can be scary. Sometimes "new" can be sad. Usually, I look forward to new because I tend to get bored with same old, same old but.......new life changes are difficult for me. For me it is a grieving of what was and will never be again. There have been a lot of new life changes for me especially in the past year with the kids all moving further away and not being able to see them in person  much. We are learning how to do family different and in new ways.

This is a new day - nothing yet written on it - so make it worth living. Make this new day a new adventure.