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I Promise We Are Not Destitiute

Right now, my Mom is home with my kids and I’m at the PBS press day. Jane and Alexander are absolutely thrilled to have an afternoon with Granny, and I’m enjoying an afternoon with adults.

My Mother is soon to hear a phone message that will make her heart sink, and she will be too polite to say anything.

This pay period my husband switched banks, this means that last Wednesday he got a paper check for the first time in nine years. My husband forgot to bring the check home for a few days, and then for a few more it sat on the kitchen counter. Right now my husband’s paycheck has been folded four times and is in my back right pocket.

Something important has not happened.

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