I’ve found myself repeating that phrase a lot lately. Birthdays. Anniversaries. Baby showers. Christenings. American Thanksgiving. One off events or yearly ones, I won’t be there for them now.
This is one of those things you know. It’s not financially feasible for me to be home for both American Thanksgiving and Christmas. And it is logistically and financially impossible for me to be home for birthdays and anniversaries. Knowing that doesn’t make dealing with the emotions easier though.
You can understand things logically, but an emotional gap still remains.
So what to do?
Get involved in other activities. Softball made the summer fly by, and it made August easier. It’s only the second d week of dodgeball so perhaps too early to tell, but it is an activity. And I made some friends from softball that have invited me to activities as well.
So perhaps this is another step to changing the phrasing, and reframing my thinking.