I wasn't sure where to post this, and have n-c-ed but I really wanted to say this.
My dear friend lost her husband in a terrible accident last year.
Utterly heartbreaking and heartbroken. Three wonderful children. The image of the four of them in deepest grief, the day they buried him, will be in my mind forever.
She was in turmoil for several weeks, but since then she has picked herself up and got on with life the very best she can for her and her gorgeous boys. I know she has good days and bad days, naturally, but she is an absolute inspiration. Whenever I get a bit "pissed off" with something relatively insignificant, I just think of her and what she has had to cope with and just how unbelievably brilliantly she has done that.
I opened my FB page earlier to find some photos of her and her boys, on holiday, looking fantastic and clearly having a wonderful time. I pretty much cried there and then I was so pleased to see real joy in their faces and their eyes. She didn't add any words to her post, she didn't need to. The pictures said it all.
She is doing her very best to give the boys the childhood and memories that they deserve, I don't know if I could be how she is, if I were in her position. She is so strong and clear thinking despite everything that has happened.
Her husband must be looking down, so very very proud of her and them.