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Weekly Contest #302
It was sometime in May of 2011. I can’t quite remember which day it was, but it felt like the longest day of my life. I had woken up next to my husband, kissed him on the cheek, then walked from our bedroom out to the hallway and found myself walking to our daughter’s room. I proceeded to wake her up for one of her last days of school. She was very unamused that I woke her up at such an “early hour.” She proceeded to try to fall back asleep, until I turned her bedroom lights on. Once again, she was unamused, but it managed to get...
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