I wrote the message and then Charles crossed it out because I did it wrong. I never got a good explaination about what, exactly, was wrong. Among other things, however, I used the wrong color and no letter ‘P’ (you can sort of see where Charles added it in the ‘O’ of “WELCOME”).
Corwin hadn’t really asked about Mom being gone (I was teasing him about not even noticing) until Mom checked in from the airport, about a three hour drive from home. After that, Corwin was asking “when is Mom going to get back” every ten or fifteen minutes. I thought he’d just been repressing his loneliness but when Mom did get home, she revealed that she’d told Corwin she had presents.