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There are those points in everyone's life, where you can foresee an event that's going to rock your world from top to bottom. Mine happened last week with the death of my father in law. It was an inevitability - his disease had progressed to a point where we knew it was coming, but it wasn't something we expected to happen THIS FAST. And yet we were there, and it was an absolutely insane time. The stress and grief of losing a parent is something I'm awfully familiar with, almost too intimately. Watching my husband go through the loss of his father has been difficult. He has a lot of emotions built up over it - frustration, anger, exhaustion, sadness, relief... I'm sure there are so many more. No sooner than he passed, we went straight into funeral planning and we are just now starting to settle back down. Out of town family has finally left, kids are back in school, people are going to work and today is the first day in a long time I've been home alone. It'