Letters to Mom

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Hey Ma, we'd been thinking about Susie lately and she called tonight. She's missing you a lot and wanted to check up on us.  I ended up talking to her for 30 minutes. That must be a record for me! We got out for a bit today - the sunshine felt good. Now if this stupid cold would leave me alone.... Missing you, Ma

Well, Jackie had a cold and decided to give it to me, Ma.  I spent a couple of miserable days with it.  She seems to be on the mend, I'm still down for the count.  She was great today, she made me chicken broth with matzah on the side, cooked and did dishes without any fussing. It was so cold that there were snow flurries at Stone Mountain - not only on top of the mountain but in the parking lot, in Alpharetta and even in Atlanta.  I spotted some tiny snowflakes that melted before they hit the ground. And it's supposed to be almost 70F by Sunday. Ack

We got Mama Marie's ashes today, Mom.  It's just so damned hard to conceive that she's in that rectangular box. I still don't believe any box could hold you, Ma.  It's hard. I got the bloodwork done today and I think Mom gave me her cold. Joyful beginning of the first night of Pesach

May your matzah be plenty and you have enough creative recipes to enjoy it for 8 days!

Hey, Ma; Darcy is eating the liver, scarfing it up. Hopefully this will help.  We know she's getting really old and we'll lose her but I'd rather it just be that she goes to sleep, not waste away. My own weight loss is at 10 lbs and it wasn't done in a healthy way.  We'll work on it.

I think we'll lose Darcy this season, Mom. She's gotten extremely thin and isn't eating very much of the canned food she and Annie gets. She doesn't seem to be in pain but she's cold all the time. That one will hurt a lot.  We've had her since 1995.  Our little Halloween kitty. the story We had been to a Halloween party until late. I hadn't even got all my Alice Cooper makeup off and just hit the bed.  Mom was just getting to bed when she heard tires screeching outside, brake sounds and then a car rushing away.  She thought was odd and was about to dismiss it when she heard tiny little meows. It was cold and the ground was frost covered.  Mom went outside and told the kitten to keep meowing and if she wanted to come in the house and be adopted to hold still, if the kitten ran, that was it for the night.  The tiny kitten stayed huddled under our tree meowing.  Mom picked up the kitten and took her inside and brought the little thing into my bedroom...