That Night

The Open House at my work went quite well. I actually networked fairly successfully. This is a first for me. It's a hypothesis I had. If I got to the point where I knew some people then I could probably handle a room full of people that I should talk to to further develop those relationships. And I wasn't terrified for once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It felt great!

The only thing that caught me a bit off guard was sharing about my family. I, of course, was proud to brag up Lynn and carried around a small photo album I made of Lynn's little life. Well, with that came the question of how many other children I had or how many boys.

I am used to this and yet I'm not. Most of the time now I have come to realize I need to say I have only 4 children to avoid the whole awkward conversation about our deceased children.

But on occassion I feel a bit downhearted about this. That night was such a night. On that night I wanted to acknowledge we have 6.

I left feeling a bit downhearted. Proud of myself that I had networked well but saddened by not being able to acknowledge Andrew and Alexa.