The Real World

At Christmas my adult children, their spouses and my husband and I fill stockings for the adults. I usually put a magazine into each one. The last two years I have been unable to buy any magazines at all after the trauma of "going through" the hundreds, yea thousands of magazines that my mother had collected while dealing with her funeral, house and all manner of other things. This was a good thing for me actually because I realized that I didn't really need certain things. This year my search for the perfect addition to the stocking of my daughter-in-law became a problem and a thump on the head. She has cancer on top of MS. Every magazine had an article on "how to lose belly fat", how to cook amazing meals for your children, how to invest, the top hairdo's for the season, make-up tricks, all things that seem so trivial now. Good health is our treasure, our investment, the most important thing in this life.