Mom was supposed to come home on Wednesday in time to cook supper for me, the big man and the people kid Justin. She had it all planned out.

Well stuff happened. She had to fly a very long way from the place called San Diego where her favorite flowers are. She had to go to a place called Houston where it rains all the time. Bad things happened to Mom in the place called Houston and she had to stay for a long time. She did not like that. She had to run very fast in the airport, she got on a train and it stopped in the middle of the road and didn’t move for a long time and it was lightening. Then she had to walk out on the runway to get to the plane and she got very wet in the rain. She was not a happy Mom at all. And she was late getting home and did not cook dinner for me, the big man and the people kid Justin.

The big man got home first and he told me Mom was going to be late and she would not cook supper. Me and the big man were discussing things about Mom. The big man has been on airplanes with Mom, so he knows about this stuff. I have not been on airplanes with Mom because she will not take me, so I’ll have to take the big man’s word on it.

The big man says that people with jobs like Mom’s go to the airport and fly on planes and they have on very nice clothes with nice hair. They have nice shoes, some have sticks on the back to make girls tall. The big man says they are very dignified and professional. I tried to look that up in the dictionary, but I don’t know how to spell so I couldn’t find it.

The big man says that Mom does not come home in nice clothes with nice hair and she never looks dignified and professional. He says Mom comes home from the airport all pale and disheveled looking like she just crawled out of her death bed. Now, the big man gets on my nerves quite a bit, especially when he uses big words I don’t know. I was trying to ask him if pale and disheveled was a bad thing and he wouldn’t tell me.

Then Mom came dragging in and I figured out that if this is what pale and disheveled was, then yes, it is a bad thing. She was very tired and walking all bent over pulling her heavy bag. She looked very sad and tired. Poor Mom. She had a very long day and a bad time in the place called Houston where it rains all the time. She only had a biscuit for breakfast and she was starving because it was long past supper time. I’m trying to figure out if Mom really likes leaving all the time on airplanes. Surely if it was fun, she would not look so pale and disheveled when she comes home.

The big man cooked supper for us, then the people kid Justin came over. We all went to bed early to rest up for the next day. Because like it or not, a people baby came to stay. Good grief! Can’t those people babies stay home! This time it is Red Head Boy. I’m trying to ignore him the best I can. There are people babies everywhere I look and I don’t like it. It is not cool and I am a cool cat.