Letters to Mom

Holidays are always hard, Mom.  We're going to have Thanksgiving here.  We're not sure if the kids are coming over or not, they may not be able to afford it.  We're hoping they can, we'd love to see them. We miss you, Mom.  I'm going to talk more about the autism thing tomorrow or very soon. Love you

Hey, Mom; It's been awhile.  I'm sorry for that.  I talk to you everyday but not in here so much and I'll change that.  I've been almost absent on social media - posting just what I need to in my groups on FB and ignoring all the ones that don't need attention like the Fall/Halloween ones which is extremely unusual for me. I think we may have found some reasons as to why I've always been different, your changeling that you never could understand.  Either I am on the autism spectrum with a bit of OCD and social anxiety or I'm just weird and have OCD and social anxiety.  My therapist doesn't know my sporadic work history and overall weirdness so she's not convinced I'm on the spectrum.  We're going to get some tests done (eventually, it's the VA so that may take awhile) and see what shakes out of the bag.  I hit almost every single trait for autism.  It's weird but nice to realize there are a lot of people out there who think like I

Missing you like crazy, Mom.  You're still loved by so many.  When I think about all the lives you influenced, it makes me smile and shed a tear.  Love you

We've been saying that we should weed through your HUNDREDS of turtles, Mom.  I finally started today.  I started with one shelf, cleaning, dusting and photographing the turtles and decided if they stay, get donated or possibly sold.  Some I set aside to see if Jackie wanted them.  We have a few to donate and several to look up for possible sales.  We're keeping only a few - first to be set aside are the trio of boxes that you loved so much, Ma.  It's hard, really hard to do this but its beyond time to do so.  We don't collect turtles.  We're going to keep turtles that mean a lot to us or ones we just like.  The others will find new homes, Mom.  We know you'll understand.  The ones we will probably sell are being wrapped in bubble wrap after being cleaned and photographed. We miss you, Mom.  Every single day. Mom adored and treasured this box.  She's look at it for hours and take in every turtle and other critters. An interesting one that is h

Two of the items we found are a jar of ocean water from Big Sur during an Ostara or Aegir's campout and ash from Mt. St. Helen's. Stepdad Chuck went on a run up there on the truck. I remember Mom trying to get water from the ocean without her feet getting wet.  She got the water but the keeping the feet dry didn't quite work out. LOL

Hey, Mom; It's been awhile, I know.  I'm working on getting better physically and other stuff.  Changing the way I eat a little, trying to walk more and get a decent amount of sleep.  We lost Gary Powell from the Marine Corps League.  Small cell etc etc etc.  Lynn says that Norma is devastated.  I sent her some photos that we took over the years and an email.  We'll send a card tomorrow or the next day.  Lynn says Harrison is frail and the detachment gets smaller and smaller.  Mike and Brenda are moving to Texas, Lou and Jennie moved to Idaho along with the Derry's.  Ralph and Viv would like to sell their place and move... We miss everyone there but have to admit we're glad to be out of California.  Boy, we miss the people and land but not the prices (nor the idiot liberals). We started going through the tubs downstairs.  We found the crystal, Ma.  Not one piece was broken.  One of the pint glasses and a wine glass were the casualties so far.  Your earthenwa