Hi Hush, what a lovely thing for your sons to have done 
I also got some nice flowers yesterday, white lillies and pink roses 
but I bought them at a little farmers cum craft market that runs for 6 weeks here in the winter. Its really nice and a good couple of hours out. It was set up by a woman who knew a lot of other people who had hobbies that earned them some pin money so she got them all together and the little market was created. There's about 28 stalls and you can get artisan breads, cakes, organic veg, hand made soaps, cushions, jewellery, unusual beach wraps, different food from different countries, then there are other stalls that sell nice and unusual things which are sourced by the seller. There's also a little area for the children and yesterday they were able to sign up for a Tai Chai class, giant snakes and ladders and other fun stuff. We kind of roam around eating whatever has taken our fancy on the stalls then when there's nothing left to try we go and have breakfast. Yesterday I had Shakshouka which is a Middle Eastern Egg dish made of a heavy, spicy, tomato sauce flavoured with Cumin, paprika and chill. Eggs are then broken on top of it before being baked in the oven in a clay dish. Sometimes a chopped red or green pepper is added to it North African style, but I prefer the Gulf version which is without the bell pepper and it was delicious. The clay dish isn't necessary but its like when I make steak pie - I still have to do it in my mums pie dish or its not steak pie. 
After that I staggered home with a big fat belly and some very nice 'cooked in a ladies kitchen Thai food' for my sons carers that they had for dinner last night. I didn't have it because I was over at one of my daughters to watch the Rugby with my dad. He's welsh, and of course Im Scottish with a love of Wales, so it was a very confusing result for me given that the first try shouldn't have been allowed and it would have made all the difference to the final score. Anyway, she made us really nice burgers that we topped of with plastic cheese slices, just because we could , and I showed her how to make proper chips. It was a good dinner, not posh at all, but just delicious!
Then by the time I got home and settled into bed it was after midnight - and much to my surprise I woke up today at 8.30!!! Its been a long time since that happened, and I did have to go to the loo a few times, but it was straight back to sleep.
Recently Ive been able to divide my not so great times/thoughts into two very distinct categories. There are those times/thoughts that are clearly because of the breakdown of my marriage, but there are also those that are very caused by empty nest syndrome. I know people probably laugh at the thought of it but we women, especially those who were SAHM's, do go through a huge transition when our children go off to Uni, or even just move into a flat. We find ourselves having to make a new life that maybe includes voluntary work, a wee job in a shop, going back into study, or like my pal you retire from a really good job and less than 4 months later you're back working in the local newsagent because the days were to hard for you to handle. So what Im trying to say is that very soon you would have been making a different life for yourself and Im hoping that further down the line you can say - I'd be making a new life for myself around about now anyway, and not just because of whats happened.
xxxxx