Thank you so much everyone for your warm wishes and kind words. It was so weird...almost like greeting a long lost stranger or something! We stayed up pretty late last night catching up, and mostly we have kept conversation to the present...not going over those upsetting things that happened a long time ago.

Tonight we are also meeting up with my parents and my other brother...this is the first time the entire family will be together since June, 1996. It will be so nice...we used to be such a tight knit family...I've really missed it!!!!

And thank you, Rosebel for the poem...that is exactly what I needed and I am printing it out and posting it on the fridge.