Letters, Quotes, Memory,
& Recipes.
We had the stitches removed on Monday, and Story’s scar is healing nicely. I have a scar in almost the same place on my forehead, on the right instead of the left. My 3-year old self was walking in a pair of new shoes still connected by the little plastic “thingy” (as Sailor calls anything of which she doesn’t know the name).
I have read many, many books by Alexander McCall Smith. I just counted up to 53 of them in my little notebook where I keep a record of all the books I've read since 2005. That was the year Bauer was born and the year I read my first AMS book: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.
The other night, I experienced the leisurely cooking of a meal as I talked to TJ after his arrival home from work. The kids were off playing alone or with one another. I was less interested in their exact locations than in the fact that somehow, I had made it to this point. I could cook and think and talk, alone or with this man, and our responsibilities for children were momentarily called off.
