Happy Sunday friends!

Sunday is probably our most routine day. Sometimes we watch church live and sometimes we watch church from bed depending on Gary’s work shift, but we always have a good Sunday dinner, and it always feels like a day of reset for everyone.

Gary’s day started before mine. He always gets up before me either Saturday or Sunday and goes to clean my car out and fills it up with gas. It’s just what he does on weekends. I think he’ll probably always do that. It’s become a part of who he is. lol

He buys some kind of yearly car wash pass through his company now, and I think he really actually enjoys going and doing it. It’s one where you drive through the car wash and actual people are washing it, rather than a machine (minus the rinse) but then you vacuum it yourself. Men love stuff like that. I can’t imagine enjoying vacuuming out my car. lol

Anyway, we went to lunch after church to celebrate my sweet Mom’s birthday. We always get an extra chair for her, and we always order a dessert and share it. That was what she did whenever we went out to eat. She would order two desserts and pass them around the table, and everyone would share. she was a woman with a true sweet tooth. If it was up to her, she would’ve had dessert before dinner every time. To be honest, she probably would’ve skipped dinner all together if she could’ve gotten away with just eating dessert.

It’s nice to keep little things like that alive. Good grief I miss her.

It’s strange though because in many ways, I still feel like she’s here. Especially recently. I don’t know why, but I feel her more. And I know it’s just not just me because I know how often Gary and the kids bring her up and how often we all talk about her. Her memory has been very alive recently.

I obviously worry about Alan on days like this because I think it’s so hard on him..

I remember my Mother joking and saying that Alan probably wouldn’t waste any time finding a new girlfriend or getting back into the swing of life when she was gone, but she was so wrong. She has really left a hole in that man’s heart.

He tells me all the time that it wouldn’t matter what age he was, that my mother’s totally irreplaceable. I don’t think we ever talk that he doesn’t tell me just how much he misses her or how he dreamed about her the night before. She’s still larger than life in his world.

He has been out on a couple of dates since she passed away. I think he met a lady at the dog park and then another lady that he had dinner with a few times that goes to his church but I just don’t think he’s interested in anything other than a companion for a good meal every now and then. Women love him though. He’s a catch, even at his age.

He jokes that the women used to want him in the day because of his maverick pilot abilities, and now they just want him because their husbands are dead – lol he’s probably exactly right.

Well, I just wanted to hop on and tell everyone happy Sunday. I always say it’s my most favorite day of the week and it certainly is.

It’s a rainy day, so I’m gonna climb in bed and binge watch a new show that my sister-in-law has been begging me to start. I think I mentioned in an earlier post that Gary’s gonna be working almost every day until next Friday. He’s had a really busy week but despite how many hours he’s worked his schedule has been pretty good. Always grateful.

🙌🏼🤍