This month has been a strange month for you, and a hard month for your adults. We started off with your Spring Break week. Many months ago, we planned to spend Spring Break in Indy visiting the Thorne side of the family. But when Dad got his lay off notice and we started planning our move, we had to cancel those plans. Instead, the Grand Lams went to Madison to start getting the Madison house ready to sell. I had already scheduled the week off from work, so we got to spend the whole week together. It was Dad's last few days at Imation, so we got to spend time with him, too. We ran errands and gathered up moving boxes from friends to start packing. We rented a storage unit and began filling it up.
The next week, you went back to school and I went back to work. Dad took his last few days at home to work on house projects. Then on Friday of that week he started driving to LA. I miss him very much. This is the longest that we have spent apart since before we were married, and it's going to be much longer before we are all living together again. I try hard to stay positive around you, and not be crabby and impatient all the time. It's not a good idea to keep your feelings all bottled up inside--you have to find ways to relax or feel optimistic. So I talk to Dad a lot on the phone and on the computer. I make lists of things to accomplish each day so that I feel like I'm making progress. Sometimes life hands you situations that are just difficult, and it's up to you to learn how to live through them as well as you can.
With Dad in LA, Grandma and Grandpa Lam are living here at the house with us. So you and I are actually room mates right now. It's been working out okay, except for last night when I said something about coming back to your room and you said, "I don't need company tonight." I said, "Well, I was going to sleep in the twin bed. Otherwise I have to sleep downstairs on the couch." You said, "I don't mind if you sleep on the couch." So I waited until you were asleep, and then slept in your twin bed anyway.
You spent last week in Madison, talking to all of the workers that came to house: the mason, the painter, the roofers. You are always curious and you always want to help do the projects. You especially had fun the day that they took a load of junk to the dump and you got to throw things into dumpsters and onto junk piles. I spent the week getting friends and neighbors to help me do all kinds of projects: taking apart big bookcases, moving the fish tanks out of the basement, taking boxes to the storage unit. And our friends were incredibly helpful. When you have a chance to help a friend, try your best to do so because someday you will be the friend who needs help. Don't be lazy about your friendships. Be selective, be careful, but don't be lazy.
The weather is finally getting nicer. We had very late snowfalls this year, and it finally made me decide that maybe not having winters for a while would be okay. Over the weekend, it was finally sunny and beautiful. Adrian and his mom and sister came over for a play date on Sunday morning. You guys had fun running around while I put up the last of the trim in the bathroom. Then you got a blister on your foot from the sandals that you were wearing. We had thought that they fit okay, but they were too small. So I brought some home today and we decided which pairs fit, so hopefully we won't have that problem again. After all, in LA we won't be surprised when it's suddenly 70 and sunny. We'll be surprised when it isn't.
Love,
Mom
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