The Phone

I talked to my mom on the phone today. The last time I did that, all I heard was silence. The last time I did that, she still couldn’t speak.

But today, she could! It was still a little weird – lots of yes or no questions, a few times where I couldn’t really understand what she was saying. She made some comment about pudding that she just couldn’t articulate, and that I couldn’t understand. But I could hear her on the other end, and I could talk with her, and that’s amazing.

And at the end, I distinctly heard her say “I love you, sweetie.” It may have sounded a little run together, and a little short on consonants, but it was beautiful just the same.