I wake up confused and dazed when I hear Me-Me groaning early in the morning. It takes me a minute to realize what’s happening. The baby is coming! I hurry over and pull her into my arms. Kai: Are you okay? Is it time to push? Melisa: Not yet. My contractions are still too far…
I sat there on my couch for a while feeling a mixture of anger and fear. I was at a breaking point…I could feel it. At any moment, I could imagine the floor disappearing under me … and I could picture myself plunging into an emotional hell with no way to climb out. Something was…
Even the smallest social faux pas in the past led me to reanalyze a situation over and over again for something that I could have done or said differently. Most of the time just thinking about whatever it was made me want to hide. What I had just done with the lady at the hospital…
Peri has been struggling to pull herself out of the dumps. Kimmie has completed the work on converting her old house into a community art center, but not even coming to see it for the first time is enough to shake the blues. This multipurpose space will be where Peri comes to teach art classes…
Dub wakes and climbs out of his bed. He knows his mommy and daddy’s room is only steps away, but they are not who he wants right now. He wants the nice lady who sings to him and gives him sweet treats before bed. So he crawls slowly down the stairs and opens the door…
I didn’t have to wait too long before Lizzie finally entered the room dressed like she was returning from handling some type of emergency. As if she read my mind… “I hope you haven’t waited long…I was working the ER downstairs.” I was so happy to see Lizzie, that my bad mood seemed to subside…
For two days, I tried to eat anything and everything… …desperate for something that didn’t make me feel like crap. Everything I ingested had the same result. It satisfied me temporarily… …but eventually hit my stomach like a diesel truck. Then I was hungry all over again. I was getting scared, so I…
Me-Me and I combine my bread dough with her beef, and she places it all in the oven. Now it’s a waiting game. This time, we don’t take any chances. We both remain by the stove to make sure we get it right this time. Me-Me pulls it out of the oven right on time….
I would have gone on believing that what happened to me was a dream if I didn’t wake up feeling so strange. I was hungry like I’d never been before. You hear people talk about being so hungry they could eat a horse…well I swear, I would have let a horse have it that morning. …
I’ve heard it said that people sometimes get premonitions before an event happens that changes them forever. But there was nothing to warn me. No racing heartbeat, no goosebumps, no strange crows or ominous clouds in the sky. In fact, the day that I received the visitor was incredibly gorgeous. So much so, Lizzie…
