My Journey With Health And Fitness – Having A Good Week

Yesterday one of the walkers on the promenade passed by me and said, have a special day. I don’t know if that is what caused me to have such a great day but I did. I got a lot accomplished and had a fun time with my husband doing inane things like shopping. I think that shout out just put me into a really good mood.

Those of you who follow my posts know that the past year has been really tough. I had to deal with a husband who was often trapped in the States because of Covid, a brother who lost his leg, a sister who went through several health scares and has now been in hospital for 3 months and we even thought we had lost our trailer when the floods hit. It was a lot to take in and every time I thought it would get better something else hit. Now I was lucky, I had my training to take my mind off things when they got really challenging and I refused to let any of that take me off the path of being mentally strong.

This week I think I finally felt like life was pretty good. It actually started several weeks ago when my sister received a message via Ancestry from someone in Sweden claiming to be a distant cousin. While our paternal grandfather was from Sweden we of course were a bit leery about this contact so my sister referred him to me. What happened next was truly amazing culminating into this week.

I should explain, the so called cousin and I started some email correspondence. It became apparent pretty quickly that he was on the up and up based not just on the information he provided about the family but also some wonderful pictures he sent including one of my great grandparents. He clinched it when he provided a picture of my aunt, uncle, grandfather and my dad. It turned out my grandfather had kept in touch with some of his family sending letters and pictures. I found it incredible that suddenly we were getting to know a part of the family that we had never been included in.

So what happened this week? Well, my cousin and I met via Zoom. We were on that call for over an hour primarily getting to know each other but also talking about family history. Turns out a decade ago when I did a day trip from Copenhagen to Malmo, Sweden I was withing 100km of where my grandfather was born and were many of the family still live. I also got to view the family tree that my cousin has created which includes both my parents. In the end we decided we would do another Zoom call when my sister is out of hospital. Also, there is an upcoming family reunion which will have many people who are my distant cousins and he will be doing a power point presentation on everything he has learned about the family. I will be providing him with a video introducing them to one of their Canadian relatives that they didn’t know about. All I can say is what a great connection.

I guess ultimately it has been nice to be having a really good experience after everything that has gone on especially in the past year. I just so look forward to seeing where this relationship goes in the future and if we get the chance to connect to more of our relatives. Yes, definitely a good week.