My husbands father isn’t well. His body is slowly shutting down and he doesn’t have much time left in him.
We’ve known for a while, we’ve had time to adjust. Time to wrap our heads around the idea. For the past few months we’ve been streamlining our life, de-cluttering, packing our lives in a box and getting ready for this moment.
Just over a week ago we pulled our kids out of school, packed up our life and drove over 2000km to the small country town we grew up in the Northern Territory.
For the last week we’ve been living in my father in laws house. Cooking, cleaning, disturbing the peace and just spending time together as a family.
It’s strange being back here with so many memories. We see people we knew from our past in the street. We stop, we chat, we laugh and it’s like we never left. But it doesn’t feel like home anymore, time has shifted and for us so much has changed but for those standing in front of us it’s like nothing has changed at all. Life still goes on as it always has and always will.
Right now time is all we have to give. How much of time we have we just don’t know. But each day we wake up and we smile and laugh and we let of steam and we roll through the motions. Dealing with each day and each hurdle as it comes.
Trudie @ My Vintage Vow
on Jun 15th, 2012
@ 7:05 am:
Sending you peace and calm during this in between time.
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StrippedBareAU
on Jun 15th, 2012
@ 10:31 am:
Sending love and hugs to you both and the girls. I can’t imagine what it would be like to go back there. I have no desire to do so, the last time I was in that town I was heavily pregnant and suffering severely from depression. The morning I left that small town I walked away for a lifetime. I do how ever smile at the memories made their with friends. Camping, canoeing, swimming, riding our bikes and being silly with boys. I’m sure your girls would love to explore all your favorite places there and perhaps seeing the town through their eyes will be the joy to give you the strength yourself and L need to get you through this…
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Cassie Nguyen
on Jun 15th, 2012
@ 10:28 pm:
It’s such a difficult time for any family, though it’s wonderful that you can all be together despite the circumstance. I hope you all find peace within each others company, and that your family create some really beautiful, happy memories with each other while you are all together now. x
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Terry
on Jun 27th, 2012
@ 1:18 am:
You have done the right thing Dani, and it will be something for the rest of your lives you will be glad you did. Some of the best memories my sisters and I have of our dad were in the final few weeks when we were all together when our dad was declining and we knew that he didn’t have much longer. Now when we talk about our dad, we laugh and talk about those weeks with great comfort – many great memories were created.
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