Ten.Nine Hundred & Four

1. The day before.

2. The crack of the can. To do: drink water, drink coffee, get cranberry sauce and brussels sprouts, and butter. Clean. Figure out how to wrap the pajamas without the children seeing me.

3. Cold and dark and I am missing them.

4. I send them an email letting them know I am available and able to help. I pour a large cup of coffee and sit down again.

5. Drop biscuits. This batch much lighter but crispier on the outside. Break open for steam. Push softened butter into its pillowy insides.

6. When you miss a call from your Vice President and then you call her back and she tells you that your voicemail isn’t set up on your cell phone.

7. Chocolate cake, salted caramel icing, coffee cake, cabbage gratin.

8. ”Though in fact she would go home and march back and forth, letting out whimpers or curses as she recalled some perceived glitch or fluster or, worse still, a mispronunciation.” - from “Silence” by Alice Munro

9. He tells his sister that these are the best cookies she’s ever made. Ever. How sweet.

10. Is it time for champagne yet?