“Well, everyone I know has got a reason to say put the past away…”

My mother in law died.

It’s weird, thinking about her like that… considering her son, my husband, has been dead for 10 years. Is she still even my mother in law? I mean I guess so, since I never remarried…

She was in her 80s and she had Parkinson’s. I hadn’t spent a lot of time with her in the past few years… because it’s difficult for me. Plus I didn’t really feel very welcome in her home.

But yeah. My mother in law died. On top of everything else going on, I certainly didn’t expect that news today.