... "the end of the Crying Weeks"? I don't think so.
I can't believe it, I managed to cry THREE times today. Humph!
This morning we went into the City centre, to an area I rarely go into; in fact I hadn't been there since the boys were little and we had to rush into the toilets for one of those "couldn't you have said something earlier?" moments. And suddenly it all came back - I was imagining their little faces and getting tearful and... what was that about?
Later on I met up with a group of bereft mums, though we were more focussed on food & gossip than missing our offspring. It seems that some kids (but not mine) come back even after a week - an amazing fact until I discovered that this was to see beloved girlfriends, rather than beloved parents, so I could stop being jealous.
So all was going well until I got home and tried to install this new whizzo super-gadget TV thingy. We had bought it this morning from a chap who knows a great deal about telly technology and has a boy who has just gone to Nottingham university. See! everyone is missing their kids AND telling the world about it. Anyhow we had to unplug playstations & stuff to install it & somehow the playstations set me off again. Pathetic.
And finally I went for a brisk stomp around the countryside to shake off the cobwebs and get in touch with nature. It was something about the lovely sunset, the lowing of cows (lowing? I think that's the word, the cattle around baby Jesus did it & I'm sure it's the same thing) and the gentle baa-ing of sheep, and suddenly I was blubbing again. Until I noticed that uncannily all the sheep around me were making a mass exodus into the adjacent field at a fair old lick. I can't help but think that my bawling was putting them off their greens and they were after some peace and quiet.
So much for nature!