Life goes on

You lose some, you win some. My youngest is still being prickly.....

but my oldest girl is back in my life.

The truly weird part of this is that my oldest was pissed at me too. Not the same reasons, she had her own naturally but not speaking to Mom seems to be a running theme. She did write and apologise which I greatly appreciated but they were still in the army and moving around

but she now lives about an hour or so away and she wrote then called then came to visit, twice in the past 10 days and we are going up July 1. They are retired from the Army and have bought a house and she is emphatic that she wants to spend time with us and so are the grandchildren. !!! I thought we would be one of those families who live so far apart that letters and phone calls are it. I never thought they would settle anywhere close to here.

So... prickly child is still prickly but oldest child has outgrown it.

Children are such a mixed blessing.