Changes...

I've been gone for a while. Life has been changing all around me. I have been changing all around life. I moved a couple weeks ago. Away from my beautiful home and a woefully unattended garden. Away from familiar sounds and long time routines.

For those whom I haven't spoken much to since the dissolution of our common Internet home, my marriage is over and my divorce is coming perhaps by the end of the year. Reasons? Yes there are many.

My husband and I have chosen to stay good friends and parent closely together because truly no matter what happens in the privacy of adults lives its the children who continue to need positive role models and security. I had always hoped to model a successful wife role for them but now that I won't be one I can only hope I (we) can model a successful divorce which demonstrates how people can still treat each other with love and respect even if the happily ever after didn't work. To speak kindly to each other and to still parent with one heart and mind. My husband is a kind and gentle man. I have great hopes of our family's future even though its now broken from the traditional.

Wish me luck as I begin my new life full of unfamiliar sounds and new routines. Wish my children an easy transition. I hear the sun comes up every day regardless of the drama we create in life. I find this equally comforting and very, very scary.