A Telegram

In Heaven.
Stop.
Don’t wanna come home.
Stop.
Three more days.
Stop.
Happy New Year!
Stop.

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Saving your things

I’ve heard stories of people who’s loved ones pass away and they keep their things in their rooms, in the closets, clothes draped on chairs, just as they left it before they were gone.
This hardly compares, but on a miniscule level, I totally understand.
J left his winter hat in my car when we dropped him [...]

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What’s that I smell?

Not long ago, Blue was eating breakfast and stopped suddenly and said, “You know, Scott, in my class at school, he has a big forehead and he smells like coffee!”
I have a friend who’s house has this certain smell. As does her car. Her car and house smell the same. So do her kids. So [...]

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Snowy birthday

Some recent conversations:
“You know why I am scared of skeletons? Because they’re all boney.”
Blue wrote on a card to J, “All miss you”. (instead of “I’ll miss you”, she always thought it was “All”, not “I’ll”. But it’s true…”all of us” miss him.”
As I was making the girls’ lunches, Red piped up, “Mommy, you’re the [...]

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Realization during a snowstorm.

We were heading towards bad weather, apparently.
The day was supposed to be a full day of school on Friday, but they called it short because the snow was going to start falling by noon.
I picked up the girls at 11:45 on their last day before their holiday vacation, and they came home with an excitement [...]

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Affirmations with the ex

So, the girls’ dad called a month or so ago to go over some dates for holidays and vacation weeks and when he thanked me for agreeing to his taking the girls for some extra time in April (April Vacation) I joked, “Aren’t you glad you have such a great ex-wife who is reasonable about [...]

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Half and Half

There’s this restaurant that I love, J and I had our first dinner out there on their outside patio after we met. On the menu, is something called “The Harf ‘n Harf”. Half hamburger/half hotdog on a bun. Seriously. I haven’t had it and not everything on the menu is quite so obscure in such [...]

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Duty calls

Well, I didn’t expect it to come up so fast, but I got called to Jury Duty.
The last time, I was near giving birth to Blue, so I postponed it. When she was one, I got called again and went. I spent a morning reading my book and eating pretzels and trying not to breathe [...]

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Alrighty, some artistic stuff

I spent the weekend pretty much holed up in the house. First, it was ass cold outside (as opposed to the freaky 55 degrees TODAY). Second, I felt kind of “down”. No kids. No J. No warmth other than INSIDE the house.
I kept the tree lit. The candle lights on every window sill lit. The [...]

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My boyfriend works for tips

I met out for dinner with a girlfriend, a fellow artist who is just beginning and who I think is AMAZING. She is a former single mum and her new husband is fabulously amazingly adorable and great. We met through my friend D’s cousin, who is also a local artist. She said to me, “You [...]

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