A new assignment~

You'd be proud. I got a new assignment at work with additional responsibility and I will be reporting to the Director of Sales on the Kroger Team! She has had several, impressive positions throughout the Organization and I believe she will truly prepare me for my next few levels at SC Johnson.

We all work to live but it sure is nice to also enjoy your job and the people you work with. I know not everyone is fortunate in this way.

So many times over the past several months I say things like, "life is not fair", "why our family?" , "why my beautiful Mother who was the most caring individual in the World?", "But my Dad just retired a year and 1/2 ago and was just getting relaxed-why?" "My brother did not want to do this, how could his mind play such tricks on him and not give anyone any warning signs"? And I come to the same answer. There is not one. Some say this was God's plan but I have difficulty accepting that. I don't want to be angry with God because my entire life is now going to be built around getting to the point of accepting that they are together in a wonderful place and that I will one day be there too, if I have Faith. I must have Faith and believe.

So, Mom and Dad the result of all of this is, I am still pretty lucky. I almost laugh when I type that, how dare I think that I am lucky given what our family has gone through? But when you look at my life outside of that...I have great additional family, a wonderful husband, a doll of a nephew, fabulous friends & co-workers, a job I enjoy-where I am respected as a business women and cared for as a friend, a beautiful house that is "celery green" and a cuddly English Bulldog who cuddles between Ted and I each and every night.

I would still give anything to get my entire family back to the way we once were, but knowing that is impossible I need to cope with my new life. My new life assignment.