So glad that your sisters were pleased with your weight loss. It is so nice when people notice and make positive comments, it sort of gives you a boost.
I do hope you will be able to see your sisters again soon. It must be nice to have a close bond with your siblings but unfortunately I do not have that.
Ooooh, Scotland. What a wonderful place. I have just booked to stay in Perthshire at a really lovely hotel for our wedding anniversary in October. I cannot wait. Whereabouts in Scotland are you going?
We are going up to Fort William, which is where my dad comes from, and where the rest of his family live. My parents split when I was a baby, and he remarried a Finnish woman and moved out to Sweden. They had two girls (my sisters) but I had no contact with him throughout my childhood and whilst he did get in touch when I was 16, and I went out to meet them when I was 21 (and my sisters were 10 and 17) my father and I have had a fractured and poor relationship, partly due to the time gone by, partly due to the distance, but mostly due to the fact that he is and has always been an alcoholic.
I tried very hard to build a relationship with him but I am resolved to the likelihood that this relaionship will never develop. I was unable to contact my sisters because I had no way of contacting them directly, until they were adults, and a couple
of years ago I found one of them on facebook and got in touch with her. She had been looking for me for a couple of years but didn't know my married name.
The three of us met up in Fort William again 18 months ago, and while the Internet is really useful for keeping in touch, distance and costs have prevented us meeting up again till now. They accept me totally and treat me as their sister and have been nothing but loving and supportive of me. So i guess you can understand why it was so upsetting to see them go again. They experienced my dads inadequacy first hand, while I had my own struggles with my family too, so we understand each other.
We still have so much to learn, but until I can afford a passport and the fare to visit them, it will be difficult to get together with any regularity. The elder has two children also, so she will find it hard to visit too.
Anyway, it was amazing to have them here. I have to just be thankful for that.