06/17/2026
Dear Daughter,
Please accept this formal, highly distracted apology regarding the current state of your bedroom. As you know, I set out with the best intentions to paint the room. I am truly sorry that the project is currently paused at exactly 80% completion, leaving the walls looking like an abstract cry for help. Your childhood memories now include me tracking Sherwin-Williams Alabaster footprints across your floor while frantically looking for a phone that was in my back pocket. I promise to finish the remaining 20% of the room as soon as my brain hyperfocuses on it again. This should happen sometime between tomorrow morning and the year 2029.
With love and wet paint on my elbows,
Your Mama