 Sorry about the long hiatus...
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Hey everyone,
I'm sorry I was gone such a long time from here... What's it been, 2 years...?! Oh my...
Things got difficult after my mother-in-law passed away. I'm sure you can imagine. I spent a lot of time helping my husband and my kids getting through it, which was a difficult task.
And my father-in-law... He was a hot mess. We spent more nights at his house than I care to think about. It went on for a long time before I pretty much snapped and told myself "ENOUGH!" I don't want to sound cold, but we all had lives and none of them revolved around him and I wasn't going to let it be that way. I was the only one (in a house of 3 males) that actually had balls (haha) and stopped to see him one day to have a talk. Don't worry, I was kind and understanding. It was more a discussion of telling him he was falling into this depressive funk, I know how that feels and how hard it is to climb out again, and that he needed to start getting out of the house once in a while to combat that, even if it was just to come to our house. A few days later, he popped in for a visit!
Unfortunately, the only person doing badly was me... I was so focused on helping everyone else that I didn't have time to do my own grieving and deal with everything that happened and all the emotions that surrounded me. My art suffered, I just kind of holed up and stayed away from a lot of things. I even stopped going on Facebook, but that was for more specific reasons... Political crap, people who were overly opinionated or just downright stupid... I just couldn't deal with seeing that all over the place, not at that point.
Things are a little better right now. Everyone has learned how to deal with the loss, I've grieved... Now I feel a little more social. A little...
Just wanted everyone to know I'm still alive and hoping that there are still some active people. I really missed everyone!
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Playing darts with the Condor's feather shuriken... 
