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How Did Everyone Make It Through Christmas?
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<blockquote data-quote="SearchingForRainbows" data-source="post: 571658" data-attributes="member: 3388"><p>All in all, it went smoothly. Had some enjoyable moments and some not so enjoyable ones. It's definitely better now that the kids are grown, living on their own - No more melt-downs, total chaos, feeling like I'm in the depths of HE77, etc..., wishing the holidays didn't exist... </p><p></p><p>However, this year I had to throw away the blinders, see easy child/difficult child 3 in an entirely different light, deal with the unspoken distance, the wall that she has built separating us from her, and hope that as she continues to mature, the wall will gradually crumble... It was very difficult because prior to the holidays and her visit, it seemed like I (almost) had the "old" easy child/difficult child 3 back and I guess my expectations were too high. I guess I was expecting easy child/difficult child 3 to be more like she was when she was younger, the one who used to enjoy spending long leisurely afternoons with me, picnics at the beach, window shopping, etc... It's time for me to wake up and accept the fact that it is not the way it is any longer, maybe it will be again someday, but not now... SFR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SearchingForRainbows, post: 571658, member: 3388"] All in all, it went smoothly. Had some enjoyable moments and some not so enjoyable ones. It's definitely better now that the kids are grown, living on their own - No more melt-downs, total chaos, feeling like I'm in the depths of HE77, etc..., wishing the holidays didn't exist... However, this year I had to throw away the blinders, see easy child/difficult child 3 in an entirely different light, deal with the unspoken distance, the wall that she has built separating us from her, and hope that as she continues to mature, the wall will gradually crumble... It was very difficult because prior to the holidays and her visit, it seemed like I (almost) had the "old" easy child/difficult child 3 back and I guess my expectations were too high. I guess I was expecting easy child/difficult child 3 to be more like she was when she was younger, the one who used to enjoy spending long leisurely afternoons with me, picnics at the beach, window shopping, etc... It's time for me to wake up and accept the fact that it is not the way it is any longer, maybe it will be again someday, but not now... SFR [/QUOTE]
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