DId that lawn thing drive you away? (I can't remember what it was! A ground hog? A mole?) We could tell it was going to be a battle to the death.
Are you staying with the company then? Is it going well? You seemed very happy there. Except for when the water came through the ceiling onto the piano.
Today I was watching CNBC and a commercial came on for my husband's old law firm. When he joined them 21 years ago, they were very new and young- 26 lawyers- and the two founding partners only 50 and 40. Now they are international, and have 400 lawyers.
Dan would be a senior partner, and we would be rich rich rich. ANd it wouldn't matter that I have lost zillions of dollars this week.
Of course he would have worked 80 hour weeks and our children would never have seen him.
Today, the doorbell rang and it was a floral delivery.
They were from CW- I cried. Imagine a college kid remembering his mother's birthday! "Sorry I can't be with you" the card said.
"That's your report card," said my best friend, Jan, who had called to say HB. "Chuck says when the boys do something wonderful, that it's our parental report card. You guys just got an A."
ANother dear friend called. She was at work. She has an important job. When we meet, she has on suits and panty hose. I have on jeans and sneakers. I wonder- if I had kept working after the boys were born--- would I be the Director of Social Services now, wearing smart suits and pantyhose without runs in them?
Ammo leaves for the state swim meet in the morning-- they have a psych dinner tonight. "I'll leave it early so I can be home for your birthday," he said, when he left this morning. "You don't have to do that," I said.
"I want to, Mom," he said.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
and sorry I could not travel both
and be one traveller, long I stood
and looked down one as far as I could
to where it turned in the undergrowth.... |
