Daniel: I think I will FaceTime with Zoë.
And so he did. As you can see, she is looking (and feeling) so much better after her I’m-going-to-stress-and-worry-the-shit-out-of-my-mom-and-try-to-kill-my-guardian-angel-in-the-process mishap. She is so lucky she lives down in LA where I can’t my hands on her. Just saying.
But it was good to see her smiling face and hear both Daniel and her laugh. Happy, happy music that makes my heart smile, especially after the messed up, exhausting week of nothing but crazy messed up-ness we all have endured. It was good to listen to the laughter of your children.
“Want me to show you my butt?”
Wait!
What?
No!
“You may NOT show your sister your butt on FaceTime!“
Add that to the things-my-mother-never-told-me-I-would-have-to-say-as-a-mother-someday. Then again, she never really told me much of anything about being a mother.
Oh well.
Thankfully, no butts were exposed on FaceTime. But there was more laughter and secrets shared and the discovery that it is the same time in Los Angeles as it is in Manteca.
Who knew?
“You press ‘End’.”
No, you press ‘End’.”
“No! You!”
More laughter and finally they said goodbye and ended their FaceTime.
I’m not sure who pressed “End” first.
It’s hard with our Zoë living a more than two hours drive away from the Big Top. Even though she has been gone for more than 18 months now, it still feels weird not see her face or hear her voice here under the Big Top every single day. I know she is happy even if she has to work so very hard. I don’t care. I’m a selfish mom that way. I want to see my kids and my grandbabies every single day.
How lucky we are to have these means to stay connected!
