DD left her rubber ducks at our friends house. The ducks are actually the kind you place in the bath, to keep people from slipping. But she has never been a willing participant in that endeavor. She gets very angry with me and yanks them from the bottom of the tub to play with them. Now [...]
DD announced that she would not change her clothes in the living room. Nobody else was in it. She said, “Daddy says nobody else can see me naked!” We went off to the girls room. She said it is not fair for anybody to see her naked when they have all their clothes on. Not [...]
(Hang in, it’ll get funny.) My dad died of Parkinson’s disease, on an Easter Sunday in the early 90s. He was dreadfully ill for years. That March, sick with pneumonia, the hospice nurse came to see him. The end was near. And I had traveled in to see him. The nurse was a very compassionate [...]
DH is so amused. He came in all smily and says, “I’m so entertained by you having to shop in the Piggly Wiggly. There will be no camembert!”
8 AM Dothan, Alabama We are in the Cracker Barrel. DD pulls a book out of her bag. It is an English/French book called Depeche-toi Molly (French speakers, forgive the spelling please. I don’t have the correct keys for the little carrot over the e.) She says, “Maman! I want you to read it in [...]
