Journal Entry 3

Author’s Note: There might be some Journal Entries that will be skipping. However this will show one of the few parties Ruby’s parents went too. A few of the other things going on as well. I hope you enjoy this entry still.

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Dear Journal,            February 10th

Life has treated me fairly well this few days. I was out in the garden to check on how things were going. Chris was off at work by now but I still had some time before I had to go to work. Rick has greeted me with a kindly smile as he was bent over pulling some weeds from the garden. He kept the garden well care for. No surprise there since he knew how to take care of the garden for a long time. His father was pretty much a farmer/rancher for as long as I could remember. His mother was a house wife taking care of her family and doing most of the cooking. I remember going over there a few times before and having a wonderful meal. It was hard to realized they were gone but somehow Rick was doing a pretty good job in his life. We hardly talk too much about his parents for it would bring tears to his eyes.

Just before it was time for me to head to work, I got a call from the local paper company wanting to know if I could come to my house party. I have not told you this but a few days ago I decided to have a nice house party for family, friends and people from work. I thought it would give some time to get over the lost of our first child. For it has been almost a month since we lost our child. In that time I have mop more then a week. Chris and Rick did there best. They were almost going to take me to the doctors since I didn’t work for a while but started to get better. Rick came up with the idea of having a nice house party. This weekend was all set for having a wonderful party.

Going back to the phone call I had invited them to come. Since I found it was interesting the newspaper company wanted to come to my party but didn’t think much about it. I was off at work while Rick and Chris started getting things ready. Rick wanted to use the fruit and vegetables we have in the garden. He wanted them in the salads and different things. Once I came home from work, I took a nice warm shower and got ready for the evening. Dressed in the best clothes and the smell of the food filling the room, the first guests have arrived. No surprise it was the newspaper company who came first but we let them in. Slowly everyone came in and we started the party off with wonderful music. While the music played we had some fine wine as we chatted away. Chris and I sat down as the newspaper company began talking to us. They asked us questions and we answered them. To my surprise we were going to be in the front page of a new magazine called New Homes. New homes didn’t really mean new new homes but what people did with their homes. Mainly decorations, cooking tips and party ideas. I was surprised he asked us to be the first. I wasn’t sure if it was because of the fact what happen in our life or that because we were becoming more famous. I looked at Chris a few times. He seem to be more then a little happy about the idea but I decided I would talk to him more about it later. We agreed to be part of the new magazine issues. They then told us they would have it out soon but just wanted to thank us for letting them join the party.

The party it self was going pretty well. People talked about how great our food taste and how we got it to taste so good. It seems like Rick was gaining more friends throughout the night. They were asking him so many questions. I was worried his brain would fall off but he seem to take it well. It was starting to get pretty late before slowly everyone was leaving. They thanked us a million times it seem as they headed out to go to their homes. Chris and I waved “goodbye” to them. We helped Rick put the plates in the dishwashers. We did some other cleaning before we headed off for the night. We said, “Goodnight” to Rick as he headed for bed. Chris and I headed upstairs to our room. We got changed in our nightclothes and sat on the bed to talk for a moment.

“Chris, why were you so excited about us being in the magazine issue? I know your happy but you didn’t have to be overly excited about it. Just makes me wonder if you plan all this or not.”

He gave me a grin like that as if he hide something from me. Just the same why you was like that before we got engage how he planed things out without me knowing it. It started to make me worry a little but Chris seem to even relax me without me always knowing it. We were quiet for a moment. He didn’t say anything right away but let me think for a moment.

Then he said, “ Well love reason I was excited about us being in the magazine issue was because of the fact that it was our first time. Plus I kind went out of my way to have it happen. Since you have been feeling so depressed about our lost of our first child. I know it is hard losing something we love so dearly but that doesn’t stop us for having a life. I love you deeply and want you to know that I am always here for you. No matter what goes on or what people say. I just learn about this new magazine just before you planed out a party. I told them about it and they gave you a call. Which I wasn’t sure if you would let them come or not but it work out the way it should be. I just want you happy and see you so upset makes me feel even worse. It is like I can’t help you even if I wanted too. Just promise you never get this depressed because I don’t know if my heart can take this too much.”

Feel at a lost but yet happy he did this for me, I told him that I would never be this depressed again. That night we snuggled into each other arms and dreamed happy dreams.

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February 13th

It was just before Valentine’s Day. When we got a phone call from the newspaper company saying that our magazine issue was done. Chris went off and got it for us to see how it turn out. Once he got home, we looked at it together and found out it turn out great. Reading everything they said about our parties and saying how no one should missing going to our parties. It was just really great. They even shared some of our favorite recipes we enjoy cooking. We were very happy and decided to celebrate by going out to eat. Rick didn’t seem to mind us going. In fact he seem like he had other things on his mind. I sure he was making sure the garden was great but I could tell there was something else. How I know this is beyond me but somehow I felt he was hiding something. I didn’t push him into telling us what it was. It wasn’t my business to know but also to know that he would tell us what it is when the time came. The rest of the evening was spending time talking about the magazine. We were reading it over and over again. We were just really excited about.

February 14th

The next day was Valentine’s day. Chris and I had some plan we were going to do. First off we took time off from work to do it. Normally we would never do that but being how this was a special time of year, we figured that one day was not as bad. Since we could always work harder the next day. Chris and I went to the beach. It was the first time since we been there. We listen to music and eat some yummy sandwiches. We took a nice walk and listen to the sounds of the ocean. Chris was very much a romantic type of guy. He could carry you away with his charms and sweet talks. Which he seem to do with me. Not only that but he took me to a movie theater. It has been a long time since I really saw a movie but it was really nice to watch. Once the movie was done, we talked to the park for a bit and gaze up at the stars. He told me a few times how some of the stars made him think of me. I had to blush and told him the same. Which we were there for a while I started to get tired and Chris took me home. Once we were home, we fall sleep into each other arms. Too tired to change our clothes.

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February 29th

It was almost the end of February and March was almost coming it’s way. I sat down reading a really good book. I haven’t read a book in sometime. Not that I couldn’t take my busy time to read one but with all that has been going on. I haven’t really thought about reading. Chris however spend most of his time reading the newspaper. He love finding out what was going on. He even spend sometime emailing a few of his closest friends to find out how they were doing. Sometimes he was even on the phone couple of hours to check on everyone. He truly was the sweetest guy I ever met. Rick of course was outside taking care of the garden. He notice out of all three of us that there was a storm coming. He did his best to cover the plants before he had to head inside. The news reporter was telling us that a big storm was blowing in. No surprise there since we heard a loud thundering noise and heard the pouring of the rain. We didn’t know how the plants would do that night.

Chris invited Rick to stay the night in our big home. Since he mainly lived in the sunroom from our backyard. Since he told us that gardeners normally never came into the homes of where they were living. Mainly because they were working/helping the people who lived there. However he did come in time to time to help with the cooking. It was written somewhere that a gardener was welcome in the home to help with caring for pets, children and helping with the meals. It sounds like a crazy almost cruel way of looking at it but in some odd way it wasn’t. Rick did what he could do and spend most of his time in the sunroom. Reading lots of gardening books or cook books. Even making some really good coffee in the morning.

Once Rick was over and was staying the night, he made a really good soup. It was very fitting for tonight. We sat down and eat our yummy soup. It warmed us up and we all sat around talking about our day. Rick was shown where the guest bedroom and bathroom was. Then we went off to bed. Throughout  the night the wind blew loudly and rain poured hard. Lighten came and went, leaving it with the loud sounds of thunder. It was hard to fall asleep but somehow we made it through the night.

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Well guys! I hope you like this chapter. It shows different things going on in life. Please enjoy!