Hey mom,

I know, I know! It’s been too long since I’ve written! It never was a strong suit with me! Sorry about that!

So day 3 started off with coffee and miniature golf! That was a great stress reliever! It’d been a really long time, but it felt so good.  Then we headed off to finish packing up your place and getting it organized.   With all of us, it didn’t take too long.

I don’t remember when we had your funeral cuz it was so insane its all a blur.  J.E. wasn’t there which, though sad, I was grateful for cuz it was so peaceful. I held K. and we cried together.  Kinda strange really cuz I know where you went, and it wasn’t in the ground!

Honestly, it was amazing as we hurried to get everything done, so unk didn’t have so much to do,  to count how many times J.E. called screaming. Unk and Aunty handled it well, but I’d have hung up and blocked her calls like I did A.’s! I guess I’m still very low tolerance on bull shit! Either that or the absolute insanity she showed after the 2016 election completely fried me! Or it could be the 2 times she’s called the state on me!  Even all these years after stopping the drugging and the banging, I still don’t do narcs!

Oh, and you were right mom! J.R.’s husband is such a gentleman! He was super busy as he was studying for his tests, so we didn’t get to chat much. And R. Looked wonderful, so that was a total positive. 

Day 4 in SLC was busy but peaceful. It was my last day as B. Was giving C. to A. for visitation, and frankly, I don’t trust her as far as I can throw her, and I never have.  She’s given lots of reasons in the last few years, but that a story for another day! Any who, I was in a hurry to get back so I could see C. cuz I was terrified she would take him into the villages and I’d never see him again!

So on top of it H. called and gently cursed me out.  I’d forgotten to tell him B. was coming down for the exchange and he woke up to him being home! It all worked out but the hubs was not impressed! Honestly it made all of us kinda laugh! It worked out though cuz B. picked me up from the airport.

So I got home and the next morning I woke up sick as heck! I chalked it up to all the stress and grief, oh and all the smoke from our fires here in America’s frozen north. It blew hard. My sinuses were so blocked I couldn’t taste, I couldn’t smell, and the cough was horrid! Thankfully the cough hit the next day cuz H. wanted me to come meet with his cuz for lunch!  The fever lasted for 3 or 4 days, but it took weeks to get my sinuses to drain so i would be able to taste again! It was one of the worst sinus infections I’ve had in decades, and it kinda made me wonder what was going on!

About 2 weeks after I got back home M. contacted me about some guinea pigs that needed a home. Of course I said yes, and along comes Dex and Stuart. I about died when they got here and the girl started giving them cheese burgers! CHEESE BURGER FROM MC DONALD’S! EWWWWW

I call Dex the tiny terror cuz he’s very small but FULL of personality! It took less than 2 hours for me to understand that this little piggy had been sent to comfort me about your passing! For example,  I heard a commotion from Sweety Pea, so I flew into the room to check it out! Dex had climbed out of his cage and into her’s! Thank God she was past making babies so she was giving him the what for! As I pulled him out of her cage I heard a chuckle even though there was no one else home.  I knew instantly that Yahweh was amused by him and was instantly reminded of aunty’s story of you climbing the school to get into the library and the ac! It made me laugh and cry!

Ok mom, I gotta get my day started now. I’m sorry it took me so long. I know how you love to get letters and I’m very sorry I wasn’t better at writing until it was too late!

Miss you always and forever,

ShelleyRay