Surprisingly my Mom picked up. She had a medical procedure yesterday that I figured would make talking really difficult. She only had a short time before her voice grew hoarse but it was good to hear how well she is doing. And then she put my Dad on.
He does their taxes by hand every year and although I didn't think he had dealt with dividends, I knew he had dealt with capital gains. I talked through what I had done and he pulled up his spreadsheet from 2017, the year he used the same worksheet I was using and confirmed that I was on the right path. It was really nice to hear his encouragement and his acknowledgement at the end that I had figured it out on my own. Maybe I didn't need him for specific answers but it sure felt good to be able to turn to him and to get affirmed by him.
Then when I hung up, texts started to roll in from an invitation I had issued to the art museum this Thursday. None of this group is able to make it but my text invitation got them on my mind and before I knew it I had invitations from two of them to drinks this evening. As people get so busy, maybe the key is just to find ways to keep in contact so that I'm on peoples' minds. I probably am guilty of that myself - reaching out to those friends who are highest on my most recent contacts list.
So now, I've sent out an invitation to another friend group. We'll see what comes of that one.
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