Want to wish you all the very best for the Holidays. Good health and much happiness in the New Year !
I'll be spending Xmas with my best friend and her family while at the same time spending time with my D and her family. Time with my D will be interesting since xwife has been living with her since October. Not sure why, but it will be interesting to see if she's around when my friend and I are there. I've suggested to my D that she and her family come to our place for part of Xmas. They're thinking about it.
Booked and paid for my flight to British Columbia this morning ! I'm leaving on the 8th of January to spend a week with my 2 sons. The last time I saw my oldest boy was 2 years ago. It's been longer (3 years) since I saw my baby (he's now 22). I am sooooooo excited about seeing them both. Will be spending a week with them.
Again, best wishes to all of you this holiday season.
This is Annie/Izzewatchin...I haven't been around at all, but was looking up my old threads and saw the new ID for you. Glad all seems to be well with you.
My D will be done hopefully by the end of the year, but I won't bore you with that. I just wanted to say Hi!
"For every action we perform we experience a similar result. If a gardener sows a seed of a medicinal plant, a medicinal plant and not a poisonous one will grow; and if he or she does not sow any seeds, then nothing will grow. In a similar way, if we perform positive actions we shall experience happy results and not unhappiness, if we perform negative actions we shall experience only unhappy results, and if we perform neutral actions we shall experience neutral results." ...Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Transform Your Life
Around 5pm my best friend, and cousin, from Germany called to wish me a happy birthday. After a few minutes I asked him if he was calling from home. He replied "No just look out your window". I nearly flipped off my chair. And there he was in a red rental car. What a wonderful surprise.
He had flown in on Friday. My xwife took the train to the airport in Toronto to pick him up. Cousin rented the car and they drove back to her place. He spent Friday night and Saturday at X's house.
Oddly enough I had spotted the red car at x's house on Saturday morning. I have to drive past her house to get to my office. Didn't think much about it at the time.
But I did have a feeling - I can't explain how or why. For some strange reason I felt that there might be a surprise on Saturday night. I wondered if my two boys were going to show up or if my cousin would. My cousin and I have done this to each other before. About 10 years ago I did the same thing to him. I flew to Germany unannounced and surprised him.
He's now staying with us (my friend and I) until Saturday. Needless to say we've got a few things planned for this week.
My daughter and her family were also in on this. So were my boys. Everyone phoned on Saturday. What a great surprise.
I made sure to contact xwife yesterday to thank her for her involvement in this special surprise. She seemed pleased to be a part it. Hopefully, one day everyone will be friends.
One year, I surprised my H with a visit from his brother (from the east coast) on his birthday. I snuck my BIL into h's office, and the nurses set him up in an exam room as a "patient". H was totally surprised when he walked in to find his brother's hairy legs up in the stirrups!
Hi Soup just read your thread glad to hear your doing well, my old identity vanished as well, and I'm back on the BB for the much the same purposes as you are! How's our old friend JORGE doing? SPITFIRE
.... Soup
