Life is Like a Box of Chocolates

The title of this blog is a quote from the film, "Forrest Gump" which continues, "You never know what you're going to get." This week, life really was like a box of chocolates. In reality we received three boxes of chocolate bon bons along with many sweet visits and surprise packages. I had 'dinner and movie' with Casey (along with many more sweets). Tomorrow Tessa and Scott breeze in from Minnesota to share cheer and news. Thanks to recommendations of good friends we found someone to help with cleaning the house and a new bank that caters to international transactions and has English internet banking. But the best bon bon came today when Martijn had the drainage tube removed. Sweet, sweet, sweet. Hopefully, the result will be what the doctors hope for - not too much leaking from the small remaining incision or too much edema, a well-known side effect once the drains are removed. Earlier in the week Martijn was fitted for long support hose (all the way up, darlings). Hopefully he'll perform a drag show for me in private ala "Benny Hill". Go ahead, buy a delicious box of chocolate - really decadent ones and share them with a friend. Or present them to a stranger. You never know what you're going to get. Life is too short not to indulge occasionally.