PRESENT

I woke up at the usual 5 in the morning. Not much to do when it is still dark out. You have no one to make love to sorry, but that was Mike and I favoroite time. Then we would talk, he would usually bring me coffee and sometimes breakfast in bed. No I just do it myself. Chat with myself and watch the morning news. Cairo again, housing market sucks and oil prices are going up. Sometimes I think my life is depressing, but look at the rest of the world it's a piece of cake compared.

PAST

I hope the weather didn't hurt my rose garden. It was about 6 years ago. I was still working in Malibu in the spring through fall coordinating weddings. I would usually leave on a Thursday and return on a Sunday or Monday. Well one of these hot Arizona weekends in July around my birthday. Bobby and Mike proceeded to dig up the side of the house by our courtyard. The ground was as hard as concrete. They spent the whole time working, cursing, and sweating. When I returned home there it was a beautiful landscaped rose garden. They even made a sign that read "Jeanette's Rose Garden" my girlfriends in the neighborhood were all envious not because I had a rose garden, but because my husband and son created it for me. He did things like that, because he loved me that much. He said " You may leave for days, but you will always have something to come home garden to come home to" My true garden was my family and Mike.