The World According to Arlene

As some of you know we recently had a very tragic accident in our family. My father-in-law was killed in a motorcycle accident. He loved riding and being with his family and he was doing both at the time of the accident. He was a wonderful man and father and I will miss him more than I can express. My own father died when I was only nine and Dave was my father for more than 16 years. He was the only father that I truly knew. I am truly thankful that everyone was together at the time he passed. As hard as it was it was a little easier knowing that we were all keeping each other strong. Some of my favorite times were early in the morning when we were visiting and he would be up, and so would I. Sometimes we talked and sometimes we didn't and it didn't matter. I am glad that he knew how each of us felt about him and we knew how he felt about us. It shall take a long time for the pain that we all feel to ease, but I am grateful to know that I will see him again and that he is up there watching out for all of us.

Thank you to all those who have done so much for our family.

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So, this past July I turned the big 40! I must say it was a little hard to accept that I was actually the age that I used to think was ancient. As you can imagine, in the weeks and months beforehand I did a lot of soul searching and thinking about my life. The main thing that I think I came to is that I am pretty happy with where I am and how my life has turned out. I have a wonderful, very loving husband and three wonderful boys. Are they perfect? No, but guess what-- neither am I. I have a few regrets but who doesn't? I wish I knew then what I know now. I wish that I would have stayed in college and finished, or at least gone back when I was much younger, but I didn't. So now as I decide when and if I will go back to finish, it is a little daunting. I wish that I would have said "thank you" more often than I did. I have had people ask me what my midlife crisis is going to be. I personally do not see myself as a midlife crisis person. but I recently started karate and I guess right now that is my midlife crisis.

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I read a few weeks ago in a trash magazine(Star, People or Us which I only read when I fly on airplanes) that they have started making the sequeal to the Sisterhood of the traveling pants. It will have all the same actresses in it and it will focus on things that took place in the last book. So everyone keep your eyes open next summer. I do have to say that I am hoping that some time in the future that she takes the time to write another book for this series. I personally think there were a few cliff hangers in the last book.

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