Called my mom today to wish her a happy mother's day. We don't speak much, but she's still my mom. I always get anxiety when I call the house and the line starts ringing, for one particular reason. My father passed 4 years ago. She never erased his greeting from the answering machine. I have my regrets over the relationship he and I had in the years before his death, and it still bothers me when the machine picks up and I hear his voice. Not sure there's a point to this whole post but I just needed a place to vent.