Finding the Way

I'm feeling more like myself after the roller coaster of a couple of days ago.  My uncle is stable after 18 hours of surgery.  The road ahead will be hard, and the immediate worry is infection.  For now, it's good.  One day at a time; one step at a time. My thoughts are still with my family, but I can focus now.  Yesterday,  I was just there, floating through the day, aware of time passing, things going on, but only feeling loosely connected.  Today, the world was real again.  The pressure of a pup against my leg, the reassuring sound of my husband snoring next to me in the night, the smell of lavender, reading, warm chocolate cookies with chocolate ganache (yes, my husband is awesome & Pillsbury is pretty darn impressive these days), these are things that helped ground me, stop me from floating away on a sea of anxious emotions yesterday.  Onward we go, finding the path to sanity, to that place we call normalcy!