It's hard to be sad when spring is so beautiful. I'm doing much better. I only feel heavy and sad when I look at Max's photo, but I think it helps me to look and move on.
I had a really wonderful weekend visiting my family. We tried on wedding dresses, ate chicken, watched/played rugby. It was really good to see them again. I hadn't been home since Christmas! I was so caught up in how beautiful Pittsburgh is in the springtime that I forgot how beautiful Lebanon can be in the same season.
For the first time in 24 years, my parents' lilac bush bloomed. A neighbor planted a bush across the street and now our lilac grew flowers. I guess our bush just needed a boyfriend to make lilac babies. It was so beautiful and smelled amazing. I'm very jealous of my mother and her productive lilac bush. When I get a house with a yard, I'll have to take a piece of their bush to grow.
Max's mom is planting lilacs in a memorial Max garden in the back yard. Hopefully, future generations of doggies will enjoy sniffing those flowers and circling around and around and around them, looking for the perfect spot on which to pee. I think Max would like that.
After years of nomadic temporary employment, advanced degrees, and chocolate ice cream, a rugger with a love of knitting and a cyclist with no domestic skills signed a Ketubah and bought a house in Pittsburgh.
4 comments:
you didn't note how beautiful you were in the wedding dresses...
I'm so sorry about Max. That is just so tragic.
Did you have fun trying on the dresses? How exciting for you!
Pittsburgh is really beautiful in the springtime--I miss it a lot this time of year.
greer and i cut some lilac babies for the house - the living room smells amazing...
i stole some of the neighbors lilic's for my house because they are my favorite of all times. you need to mention how virginal you looked in you wedding dress selections.
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