i come back home to the news of another
week without you. i put my trust in higher powers: you will come home to me. but i am still
sad -- a
vacation while you were away on business seemed
convenient. you would be gone anyway,
vacation would keep my mind off that, and i could come
home to you. but you won't be home until one
week from today, the day before my
birthday. no worries my
love, i don't hold it against you. i hold it against your employers.
i know i am
selfish, but so far you have not seemed to mind my overwhelming
desire for your presence.
that said, here is a summary of my trip to mom's. i couldn't sleep
friday night until 4:30am and was woken up at 7:30 by my sister pounding on my door. i got dressed in record time and we grabbed drive-through
breakfast and hit the road. we hit heavy fog in the mountains, but made good time, arriving at
mother's in four and a half hours. mom was not home when we got there, her friend's
husband was in the hospital, violent with
alzheimer's disease and she had decided she could no longer care for him at home. mom came home shortly, after comforting her
friend. we made
dinner reservations, and went to see the house that my
grandmother is building. it's huge with fabulous views to the south and east. we met two of
mom's
sisters for dinner, and got news that one of them, melanie, was moving to
rhode island to attend the
naval war college to get another
master's degree, and has made the rank of
captain. i expect that she will attain the rank of
admiral within her career.
dinner was excellent (
teriyaki swordfish), uncle bill talked of his recent visits to washington to work on litigation surrounding the new
war memorial.
sunday, we went shopping all over montrose just for grins. it was a
lazy drizzly day, and we stayed in the warm watching movies.
monday we unpacked the last of
mom's stored boxes and helped her sort through their contents. we threw away a lot of stuff. in the
afternoon we grilled kabobs and
mushroom caps for dinner. we packed the
car up as much as we could and settled in to
bed early after playing some
scrabble. we left this morning round 9:45.
and that was that.