Looking out my Backdoor: What was I thinking?

Does anybody remember Mighty Mouse? Is Mighty Mouse still alive? Evidently, I thought I’d swoop into my daughter’s life singing, “Here I am to save the day!”

Boy, howdy, was I ever wrong! I totally ignored the part where I am in my 70s and my daughter is 50. Once a “Mighty Mom,” always a “Mighty Mom.”

I also ignored other basic facts of her life, such a her husband, her teenaged daughter and 42-hundred family pets.

Expectations trip me up every time and land me smack on my face.

I’d envisioned walking into Dee’s and Chris’s new home here on the western edge of Glendive, and like that cleaning...