a phone call

Marcos called last night!

He's doing well.

He's got a job doing construction,

which is much better money than working the  banana farm,

so that's good.

He misses my pizza.

(Yeah, Buddy, we miss my pizza, too.

Actually, our wheat-free pizza isn't too bad... )

And Lex'.

He misses Lexi, too.

(Of course if he saw how rotten she's been lately,

he would tell me to either 'beat her with a belt'

or to make her kneel in rice. He assured me more than once

if I would just do those things, my children would be good.)

Tyler asked me (cautiously) if I missed him.

Miss him? No.

But,

he's been gone long enough that it was good to hear from him.