I'm a work widow tonight

Sigh! I hate it when Bear works a Saturday shift. Since he normally works Sunday to Thursday nights, and I'm in the store Monday through Saturday, we get Friday nights sort of, because I have to go to bed early, and then Saturday nights together. So now I'm all out of whack because my routine has been disrupted. :D

Oh, well, I got a chance to talk to my Mom on the phone today. For so much of my life I've either seen or talked to my parents on a daily basis, it's still really weird for me to suddenly realize that I haven't spoken to them in a couple of weeks. So when I do call it's a couple of hours on the phone. Mostly with Mom; Dad will answer the phone and talk for about a minute before handing the phone off to Mom. He's just not a phone guy at all. I'll call him next week because it's his birthday and maybe get a whole 5 minute conversation out of him-because it's a special occasion.

Oh, and also because I'm Daddy's Girl. *smirk* So I get a bit more from him on the phone. My sister is still kinda mad at me because my parents chose to move to where I was living when Dad retired. She wanted them to move in with her. So I'm a spoiled brat. Nope, Mom just really does love me best!

I shouldn't say that, I guess. They love all of us. I just happen to think that they like me more than they liked my sister for a long time. Not really her fault because of what she was dealing with. Maybe. I know she really hurt them several times. It's too bad, because they were so great to us while we were growing up.

Dad coached both my sister and brother's baseball and hockey teams for years, meaning all of us were at parks or arenas for most of the week. That's why I only played softball for 2 years, I think. I really wasn't as interested after spending so much time as a little kid at games and practices and tournaments. But Dad coached my team one year, too. Mom did as much score keeping and other stuff as she could but her back was shot by the time I played. My BIL volunteered to assistant coach and my sister did the score keeping when Mom couldn't. I remember being so grossed out by the fact that some of my friends had a crush on my brother in law. Ewwwwwwwww. ;)

What I'm saying is that Mom and Dad spent time with us, lots of time. I didn't realize until I was a lot older how rare this was. I thought it was what all parents did. Now I know better and I thank them for it often.

All we were ever missing was the pony. LOL!