Saturday, 17 April 2010 -- Day 118 (131)

I pretended Mom was alive for just a few minutes today. I spent the day at Ruthven-Ayreshire High School accompanying vocal and instrumental students for their contest. I was waiting to warm-up some of the vocal students so I sat talking w/ an older lady. We talked about retirement, and I mentioned how we all thought Dad would drive Mom crazy when he retired. I was really tempted just to keep going w/ the slight deception, but in a short time, I felt the need to clarify that Dad has been retired for almost 20 years, and that Mom passed away in December. Will I eventually start saying, "last December" then, "a year ago," and then, "14 months," and so on? Makes me think of how I first defined my daughters' age when they were infants: "4 months," a year," "14 months," and so on and so on. Symmetry?