We want you back…
the advertisement email in your Yahoo account read. I look up to the skies filled with stars on a dark, cold night and find myself wishing the same thing. The laughter, the love, the friendship we shared everyday myDarlin’, what I would give to have you back.
Tonight I dined with our daughters on sushi at the Orient Express myDarlin’, and talked of days gone by. TimeHop brought days of Snowmaggedon memories flooding back; memories of the long commute home and the days that followed as we waited the weather out. And I love the photo of us myDarlin’, you in your Saints beanie that the boys gave you for Christmas just a short month prior, and me in my pink hat made by my little sister Mary before she left this big blue and green ball of ours.
We thought back to the times we came here before… to eat dinner in this old train car made into a restaurant and I smile to myself as I remember how much you love trains myDarlin’. We met here to have dinner ‘just because’; because it had been too long since we got together. It was shortly after that that you and I decided that we could do or create anything we wanted, and so the tradition of Pope Sunday dinners began. Our day just to hang out together with family, whether at home or out – the important thing was to be together.
And another photo shows on the TimeHop app, with a photo of my Malibu Barbie (aka my car) and this narrative:
New to me! It’s been ~ 2.5 months since that dreadful day when my long time vehicle, the 2001 Cavalier, failed emissions. It was a hard decision not to keep pouring $$ in, $300 here, $500 there and so on and so on.
myDarlin’ Robert Kenui Pope and I have been closer than usual during the past couple of months as we shared (or should I say that he shared) Tacoma. We laughed today because we are lucky that we get along so well. Otherwise, sharing a ride in at 4am and him having to come back to this side of town to get me in the evening would’ve been really tough.
Thanks to my son Mike for negotiating a great deal on the ‘New to Me’ 2007 Chevy Malibu! It runs well, has a huge trunk and looks good too! And so tomorrow I sleep in a bit later than usual and still get to work before the 8’o clock crowd. Aloha!
Tonight I am filled with gratitude as I fondly look back over these memories and so many others. One of your daughters said it best. ‘We were oh so fortunate to have him for all those years. He taught me a lot about how to live life to the fullest.’ And yes myDarlin’, we want you back too.
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