Update Follow-up / Jean Smith (Wife)
Hey Hun,
Well, that was fun going to the shop Joe enjoyed himself quite well looking your stuff over. We went aboard the Bout' Time, went to see dad checked stuff over it was fun. Anyways, I talked to Jess yesterday after I got back from the shop. She is doing well still waiting to hear about the job but she isn't gonna be able to work soon so I'm not sure what is up with that. Other than that she sounded good. Maddie wouldn't talk to me on the phone I'm losing her, Hun.
John is doing well.
Tab is doing good. We watch Who's Line Is It Anyway? We enjoy the time together. It's like we make a date for that we try to do that together. We hang out more she is growing up Hun, quick. I'm so sad that you will not be here to enjoy her. I think she'll make you proud. She knows how important it is. My heart breaks to think of all the things in a girls life when just her dad will do that she will miss out on. She is like you she is very strong from what I see. She likes to tinker on stuff like you, she is still drawing, still into the Anime. She still wants to go to Japan so I hope her wish comes true for her. Maybe I'll hit the megabucks and I can send her. Do I dare dream though....?
K now for me. Um, it's hard. So many things happen and it seems neverending it's like 1 thing after another. It's kicking my ass. I'm tired of my ass getting kicked, but such is life and I'm learning to accept that it is and will be ok. Keeping the faith is what I have left. I don't let it get me down or I try not to, it does but, I think of you and know that some how some way it will be ok. God doesn't give us more than we can carry right? i'm thinking that if it gets a little heavy your there to help lighten the load.
The motor went in the car. I have to get a new one. It slipped a piston sleeve ouch! I found a motor for 1500.00 it came out of a 06 car 2000 miles on it so Charlie is going to put it in for me. I gotta get a hub I think for the truck, another 200.00 getting the back breaks done just so much stuff. Stuff I'd rather not be dealing with, I have enough on my mind. Still finding it hard to deal with losing you. So many important dates coming right up so many memories to run through my mind. Our anniversary will be a hard one for me to deal with, Tab's birthday, your birthday, Father's Day. I'm gonna need some help from above so if you could..... Oh Baby, just writing this letter hurts. I cry so much, I didn't think a person could cry so much.
I applied for a job back at the Market hopefully to help me move foward and try to start something different for me and Tab. I really need to find something, Hun. I need to take care of Tab, it's so hard to have to tell her no that she can't have something because we just can't afford it. I need to do something that will provide a lifestyle that she is somewhat accustomed to. I'll never be able to give her what you could but I'd like to stay close to that. She is very good about it she understands the financial situation. I'm lucky.
Now I gotta tell you this... I'm gonna have to sell the skiff. I need the money I'm having such a hard time with it too! That is what we started in. When I sell it that is just another piece of our lives together that will be gone. It seems like I'm selling you off and it just kills me. I wish I woulda done the apprentice program, I'd probably try to fish the boat. I know funny right and I probably never could but just a thought, a dream.
Carmen and Randy are engaged. He bought her a ring, they bought a house in Fla. she is moving at the end of April. I'm gonna miss her so much she has grown into a beautiful young lady, Hun. She is a good mom. I wish her and Randy the best. She has a nice family.
Ma is doing ok I guess you know things still bother her very much. You know ma. I love to visit her. She carries so much weight sometimes she just needs to unload some of it.
Scott is doing good I saw him the other day. Ben Dover and Joe are the crew for netting. They have all their traps up now. Just waiting to go netting. The Whitney is just as beautiful today as she was when you left. I wish you were aboard her.
I don't see too many people I sit home alot, alone. Me and Tab so I guess not alone but alone. Chris stopped by the other day I went to Ellsworth with him we ate lunch changed the oil in his truck and came home. It was nice to see him. He has been in Fla. all winter. He bought a Harley, Hun. I think he is bringing it up with him when he comes back. He flew out today to go back to pack up the truck and get Peggy then head home.He got his license back.
Still talking with Shawn and Yma. Shawn may be going back to Hyannis to go scalloping again. I hope it works for him. That will bring back some memories for him. I really enjoy talking with him, Hun he speaks so highly of you. But then again I don't know of one person you met that didn't like you or that you didn't have some kind of an impact on them.
Well I'm gonna stop this letter before I have a story here. Just hard to let go. Love You Me OXOX Thinking of you always.
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