3 years ago today my mom left this planet. Sometimes it feels like 3 minutes ago and sometimes it feels like 300 years. I was with her when the last breath of air left her body. A huge sigh and she was gone. I stood there wondering if I screamed loud enough would she’d come back? She’d always been there for me whenever I needed her and I needed her more in that moment than ever in my life before…
OK, I’m just gonna do this. Out of the sick bed and back on the keys. I’ve been struggling with THE FLU since the first day of December. That means I’ve been sick since LAST YEAR. I spent a lot of time just lying in bed waiting to get better and thinking. On the more miserable days, I thought about some of the miserable things that have gone on in my life. And on the better days when I thought…
I think enough time has gone by and chances are you won’t see this anyways but….. I gotta tell ya somethin’, first husband. Remember the first year in our new house? The living room had a huge high ceiling and was still empty of furniture so I wanted a TALL Christmas tree in there…..right in the middle of the room, high up to the ceiling? Remember? Sooo, the six of us went out tree shopping and found the perfect tree….