One day I was tending to my two year old who had just come down with symptoms of chicken pox. My telephone was ringing off the hook and I was about to go answer it when simultaneously one of my closest girlfriends bounded in my front door and yelled at me NOT to answer the phone.
I looked at her like she was loopy.
I picked up the phone.
It was a phone call from someone my husband worked with. (My husband was on location at a job site in another country very far away). The voice on the phone told me there had been an accident —a plane crash—and my husband was dead.
My girlfriend knew this already as she had been called first and was told to be at my house when I received the news. My husband and I had been together for 18 years. We had a two year old... and it was not a good day for her either as she had itchy spots all over her body from the chicken pox.
It was the worst day of my life.
I had not planned on being a widow at 42 and I had not planned on being a single mom.
I looked at her like she was loopy.
I picked up the phone.
It was a phone call from someone my husband worked with. (My husband was on location at a job site in another country very far away). The voice on the phone told me there had been an accident —a plane crash—and my husband was dead.
My girlfriend knew this already as she had been called first and was told to be at my house when I received the news. My husband and I had been together for 18 years. We had a two year old... and it was not a good day for her either as she had itchy spots all over her body from the chicken pox.
It was the worst day of my life.
I had not planned on being a widow at 42 and I had not planned on being a single mom.
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