sick Stan

Dear Daughter,

Won't be long until you and Stan will be home again. I hope, so much, that it doesn't rain on Saturday. I think all the weathermen on TV say it will rain, but, they might be wrong.

I went to the bank today. Then I went to Hecht's, and looked around, but didn't come close to buying anything. I didn't even go to Dillard's today.

Dot sent us all a memo regarding our smoke detectors.I'm sure it's because nine people died in a Nursing Home on Patterson Street last week. I had to place a memo inside each door on our floor about the smoke detectors.

Daddy seems to be feeling fine. He didn't go out today, but we are definitely planning to go to the cafeteria tomorrow.

That's about all the news I know, and that's good, I suppose.

Hope you had a good day at school with the Second Graders.

Hope you have a good evening.

Much love, M & D

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Dear Mother:

Before I tell you anything about my day, I just want to alert you to the fact that Stan came home today feeling really sick again. His chest is congested and he has a deep chest cough. Not so much because of him (although I don’t want him to make himself sicker) but because of not exposing you all (and particularly Daddy) to any sort of lung disease, I want to warn you that if he gets worse tomorrow, we might have to cancel out for this weekend. I know you would be disappointed and I would be sorry but I don’t want to take any chance of Stan’s giving this infection to Daddy. So I hope he will feel better by tomorrow and I hope we can come, but I wanted to prepare you just in case. Or maybe we could come for just one day instead of two. I don’t know, but I wanted to make you aware that Stan was feeling lowly again.

School was more or less okay today. I just had the second graders and two of my classes did well enough while the other one was just as disruptive as ever. I sent one little boy back to his room which I know crushed him, but I was just out of patience. Dealing with him was taking too much time away from the other nicer children. For the most part, however, the day went pretty well. On Thursdays, I have the first two hours of the day free so I am able to get several chores done on Thursday mornings. It makes me feel more settled and organized to have that time free and clear to work on clerical matters. I had my morning duty and then my afternoon duty but, fortunately, I will only have the afternoon duty tomorrow and then not again for a couple of months. I did manage to leave in time to get to the bank before it closed and it’s a good thing I did. They had not done what I’d asked them to do with regard to a savings account so I had to spend about 15 minutes straightening it all out. I got home about 4:30 and started cooking dinner. Fortunately, I cooked something Stan liked because when he’s sick, he often just won’t eat. But he liked the veal parmesan and spaghetti so much that he ate it even though he said he had no appetite. He’s curled up in his comfy chair reading right now so maybe he’ll feel better in a while.

Well, sorry this is such a depressing letter from your point of view but that’s the way it is. I’ll let you know tomorrow how things are going.

Bye--Ruth