Hey Dorrie!

I just realized there was message here about my 'brooding' mood. I was feeling rather moody this week. I think a combination of being female and just feeling 'blah' about my in-laws. I'm also getting reconnected with my mom after the summer off/away from her. With my in-laws, my sister in-laws mainly, I just don't feel that 'connection.' Was feeling a bit sad, realizing more and more why my DH stayed away from his family for a while(before me.) Not they they are bad/terrible people or anything like that, au contraire, it's just we live on different wave-lengths and have differing views on the world. I guess before in my little polly-anna, naive view on the world, I thought we would somehow 'feel' like 'family' just by virtue of my being married to their brother. Yeah....that ain't happening Somewhere along this summer, I grew up in so many ways, on so many levels. Is that what sobriety brings? A newfound sense of maturity? So I guess I've been brooding over the 'what never was and what never will be's.

ON the brighter side of all this. I had always hoped that they'd teach me how to make their rices and empenadas. Well, all these years later, it just is not happening. So tonight, was my first attempt at the rice. It came out awesome! Later this week I'm going to try my hand at empenadas. I hope they come out just as well.

Well, I'm just checking in! Hope your weekend was well!