Solitary Refinement Chapter 6

vagabondprophet:

Dearest Elizabeth             August 27th 2017

So I know that Alister is supposed to start his first year of school next week. Do you think you could bring him and Nina to visit me before that? I really want to talk to him about it and see what he thinks about school? Is he worried or excited? Do you know if any of his friends will be in his class? What’s his teacher’s name? There should be a list up at the school by now. Listen I know you’re mad at me and you don’t want to talk to me right now so I’ll keep this short.

Nina’s birthday is soon and I’m going to try and send her a gift if I can. It won’t be anything big but if I can do that just make sure you give it to her, don’t let her miss out on things because of my mistakes.

Do you remember the time that she pooped on me when I was sleeping? I wasn’t even mad I thought it was so funny. I remember you just said I shouldn’t have slept in, this wouldn’t have happened if I’d have just gotten up earlier. Why did you say that? I was really tired I had worked sixteen hours the day before and walked home in the rain. I remember feeling so guilty for sleeping in, like I was robbing my children of happiness by being asleep or something. It seems silly, I was tired so I was sleeping that’s what tired people do. That’s what we do with the kids when they’re tired.

Anyways I’m learning to cook better, maybe once I get out of here I can do some more cooking at home. I was getting tired of my same three recipes revolving around endlessly. Your cooking is so much better than mine but I understand that you’re tired sometimes too and I want to be able to contribute better than I have in the past.

If you don’t come visit before school starts could you put a picture of me or of all of us together in his backpack? I know he gets nervous with big groups of new people and it might help him, make him feel like we’re all there with him you know. In case you forget his favourite backpack was the one that was blue and red, not the plain blue one.

He told me that it made him feel like he was strong like Superman.

Sincerely,

Your Husband