February 4

 

I am making plans to move with my son. It will be a long drive, so I have made a huge industrial-sized pan of lasagna to take with us on the drive. I am cooking this lasagna in a convection oven at Walmart. I receive a phone call from my mother just as I am taking the pan out of the oven. She asks me to stop by to say goodbye before I leave, but I tell her I can’t since the lasagna will get cold. My father appears in Walmart. He is off to the side seemingly floating and looking down at us. He is dressed in a very dapper blue and brown checked woolen suit, and he is grinning from ear to ear as if to say, ‘don’t I look great in this suit?’ He says nothing but I comment on his appearance. He disappears for a while then reappears again wearing the same suit. I pack the pan with lasagna into the car and we leave the parking lot. As we are exiting, I see a station wagon with the doors open and a young girl is in the car by herself. This concerns me so I stop the car and run over to see if she needs help. She looks nervous but she says she’s okay. Her father has stepped out with her four younger siblings to use an ATM and she is waiting for him to get back. I can see him in the distance and I get back in my car until I see him walking back to his car with the kids in tow.