This is Fruitycake. Did you have high hopes for the week? I sure did. I wanted to be happy. And I succeeded. But persons have much bigger goals. Girl Person says that for me to be happy that I have to have the basics.

And she works hard and Boy Person does too in order just to survive right now. 

Maybe most of you persons feel like you’re trying to survive in some way too. I love you. Thank you for trying. Because my world wouldn’t be the same without you in it. 

Sometimes though, you can try your hardest and you still slip up. Like Girl Person this morning.

It is raining very hard. And when it rains here, the mud is very slippery. She went outside to do some laundry in the rain because she says the rainwater helps get out stains. And we have a lot of that. But when she went outside, the mud grabbed a hold of her feet and pulled her butt down the mountain like a slip and slide. She said out loud, “so it’s gonna be like that today?”  And when she took off her pants and threw them in the bucket too, she was standing there in the rain and the cold with no pants on.

I know. Because I saw her. And no one should have to see that. Not even a dog named Fruitycake. Boy Person had opened the door to let me out and as he gazed upon ber unholiness, he exclaimed, “now what?” 

And she told him just to look away. He offered to get her some pants. She told him nope. She didn’t want any pants. She was just gonna walk around all day with no pants in the rain. She might as well. It made just as much sense as the days we have around here. 

Yes. She eventually pulled herself together and put on pants. Boy Person is now out in the rain trying to find dry wood to keep us warm. So now, we all make no sense together. 

All we need is a miracle to get us thru this day. This week. This year so far. But I think if we’ve made it this far, we ought to keep trying. That goes for us all today. All we need is a miracle. Or pants. 

–Fruitycake