(edited to add that I'm quite dismayed to find the moment at which the video had to end... have you ever seen such an unflattering pose, on anyone? Honestly? But I'm leaving it alone. It's just one short little frozen, ugly moment in my life - saved here for all eternity.)
So, I was doing pretty well managing my emotions. I kept telling people that I had processed a lot of my grieving over Tejan's departure back in January - when we were so close to saying goodbye... and so that must be why I wasn't feeling overly emotional about it this time around. I hadn't shed any tears. Hadn't choked up in that strange, overwhelming way where I feel like my whole head is filling up with fluid and my throat is so constricted I'm just sure I'm going to die. Nope. I was doing just fine. And then I went out to dinner with some girlfriends. And while I was a little socially inept because I'm a kind of overwhelmed and not really wanting to talk too much lately (perhaps in subconscious fear that I might touch on a nerve that would cause my aforementioned steely resolve to crumble) I thought I got through the evening fairly well. I didn't tear up - or need tissue for any fluids defiantly leaking from my facial orifices... until I made the a...
Pretty cool!
ReplyDeleteLove hearing his sister cheering him on!! And, although I wouldn't have noticed your face, it made me laugh since you pointed it out.
ReplyDeleteCath,
ReplyDeleteThat pose is not so bad. But thanks for the intro. I don't think I would have even watched video of my own son running a mile and a half. Well done Kyler.
Cath
Cat,
ReplyDeleteThat pose was not so bad. Thanks for the warning, though. I might not have looked twice at it otherwise. I wouldn't have watched the video of my own son running a mile and a half. Well done Kyler.
Cathy Yates