Smelling Spring in the Air

I might be just wishful thinking, but I thought I smelled spring in the air today. Perhaps it was only for a minute but I thought I caught the daffodils trying to sneak into winter. The howling of the wind and the teeming of the rain stopped for just a minute today and the blue sky showed through as the temperature actually soared to 60 degrees. My client today, a newly pregnant soon to be divorced woman wondered out loud how I could possibly tell her to enjoy this time of her life. I guess I was remembering my own pregnancies since today my oldest turned 18, and I remember this day all those years ago as if it were just yesterday.

18 years ago there was a snow storm covering the island as I held my newborn in my arms in the hospital. Kathy Lee Gifford had also just given birth to her first child and I remember watching the broadcast from my hospital bed. Sharing my room was someone I was sure would become a lifetime friend for myself and my son. The friendship lasted a few years but didn't survive my divorce. Many of my friendships did not survive my divorce and when I say that to people who have never been divorced they look aghast. Just ask someone going through a divorce and they will tell you about all their fair weathered friends who didn't want it to "rub" off on their relationships and just faded away.

Of course being a single parent is never easy, but given the choice of parenting alone or not parenting at all I would choose parenting alone.
Also recently my longest running case was settled. I will miss the client but certainly not the aggravation of the case. So far a happy client, time will tell if the deal was good, I think it was. More importantly it was time to move on with her life. That is also what I told my client today...time to move on...afterall it's almost spring.