December 14, 2023 - Thursday


Today felt like an exhausting day. The morning started slowly enough, but Ollie woke up at 6:50, so I didn't get much sleep after that. Thankfully, I went to sleep at 9:15 last night! Alisha came to visit me around 11 and hung out until 1 or so. This is kind of mean to say, maybe, but it felt like our visit could have been achieved over the phone. Is that a stupid thing to think? Maybe it's just because we didn't go anywhere, but I usually appreciate face-to-face visits. Idk what's wrong with me. Anyway, it was good to get a couple of hours to catch up with her and I am glad she got to hang out with the kids. She always asks about them, but I don't think she'd ever even met Ruby and Ollie before. 

After Alisha left, we headed to the movie theater to watch Wish, which I did not like. I know that the science behind us all being made of similar stuff to stars is real and everything, but that was the basis of the whole movie and I couldn't help but feel it was kind of an atheistic film. I had to keep reminding myself that, to the kids, it was just another Disney movie, not some argument against Christian (or any religious) faith. But I thought the music was just so-so and the story flow was really rapidly paced and weird. Anyway, it did the trick of getting us closer to Patrick's so we wouldn't have to drive through rush hour traffic down 95, and that was the whole purpose of us going. 

The hangout with Ben's family went a lot better than I feared it would. I kept trying to remind myself that I've been a part of this family for 15 years and it shouldn't be weird to hang out without Ben, but I still thought it was going to be. It wasn't. It went just fine. A little boring, but no awkwardness whatsoever. We ate, the kids opened gifts, we talked about stuff...not real stuff, not real life. We just chatted about unimportant things. We stayed until 8:30 or so and then headed back to dad and MJ's and it did feel a little sad to be leaving. The kids won't get to see those cousins for another 6 months, probably. It's such a shame that they don't get to grow up together. Not that I really want their influence over my kids, but it's still a shame, in some ways. 




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