More Highs and Lows

Hey there.

How are you? J is back to school, right? And M? Is he home? How was Easter?

Mine was good, and then not...

Dinner with my family was good. I couldn’t help but recall Easter of last year. My cousin D is in such a different place than she was then. She was so sick with cancer this time last year, literally on her death bed, told she had a small chance of living a year. And now, though she has 3 spots on her bones, so much of the cancer is gone and those 3 spots haven’t spread since Christmas. What a miraculous year it has been for her, for all of us, that she is still with us and apparently healthy, feeling and looking good.

Once my cousins and their kids and my aunts and uncle left, it was just my parents and me and my sisters, their husbands and kids. All of the kids are on vacation this week (I’m the only one not) and therefore no one was really in a hurry to leave. We helped my mom clean up and hung out together, which was nice. The L called me outside for a quick conference and told me that J saw M put vodka in her soda. We both felt sick.

When we got back in the house, M was pouring my mother a drink, so the jury is still out. Is that the vodka J saw her pouring, or earlier in the day had he seen her drinking on the sly?

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If only. I got clarification--via fast and furious texting during a study hall--from L that J saw M pour and drink the vodka, then make my mother a cocktail. Super. Let the games begin.

L and I are still sick about it, but decided on the following action plan. When M goes to pick A up tonight (A went with L et. al. for an overnight) L will confront her. I suppose that works out nicely since L is in recovery too, and has been for a year longer than M. I guess first we try to figure out if it was her first fall off the wagon or if this is how she's been coping lately...

From there we figure out what to do next.

Have I mentioned lately, need I mention that I'm really ready for vacation?....

Hoping you're okay.

Love,
Barb