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Real Tibette – Thanksgiving 2023
‘Looking forward to getting away?’ Bette asked.
Tina let out a weak laugh. ‘Yes and no, I think, to be truthful.’
‘Yeah, me too.’
They sat for a moment in silence. They each knew the other was running over mental lists of everything and everyone that needed to be organised.
‘Feels different this year,’ said Bette.
Tina nodded. Sipped her tea, then sighed. ‘Kids are so grown up.’
‘Yeah, that’s part of it.’
They were quiet again, and then Tina shifted in her seat – one of her tells. Bette put herself in listening mode.
‘I wonder if having Sonny and Kit living with us makes it less special to go away with them? Like . . . like we’re taking all our day-to-day and just changing the location.’
Bette took a sip of tea. Asking Kit and Sonny to move in had been her idea, so she was inclined to take any friction caused by the decision personally. They’d worked on this with their therapist, Claire, but it was still an issue that needed careful handling.
‘I love having them here,’ Tina continued. ‘But it’s a trade-off, isn’t it?’
‘Mhmm,’ Bette said quietly.
‘Like this.’ Tina pinched a small roll of fat around her own waist.
Bette smiled. Kit’s cooking was very good, but man, did she like butter. Everyone had gained weight since March. Ben had put on a full four inches in height. Even Shane had a tiny muffin top on her jeans. Shane!
‘We get to live with them, which means we get to live with all the beautiful and wonderful and loving things that they bring – and they bring other things that are annoying and invasive and uncontrollable, and we get to live with those too.’
Tina drew back to look at her wife. ‘You memorised that?’
‘I had Claire text it to me. I knew I was gonna need it.’
Tina laughed, and snuggled closer. They sipped their drinks a while, in a deeply bonded, reflective silence, and then Bette said they should head back to bed. ‘See if we can get an hour,’ she said.
They took their cups to the sink. Tina rinsed them under the tap. ‘I’ll put the Limoges through the washer in the morning,’ she said.
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Hey pal,
‘Waves’ from across the pond!!
Is it really as simple as just ask & receive??? Ha!!!
I’m waiting on a relative to arrive at my home & got the hot news flash that you had posted an update!! My heart sped up & of course I had to seed for myself. What a huge surprise & a much welcome one.
Thank you in advance & I’ll comment further when I’ve consumed every word!!
Woohoo!!!
haha, THANK YOU! will reply to your email in a jiffy
thanks for being excited :-)
Largo
I love this TiBette Universe you have created and I keep coming back to read your stories. I was really excited to see you had posted again and I loved this new chapter. Please keep writing! And thank you for the stories!
Hi there, alisanne
How nice to meet you and to hear that you like this little world. That makes me so happy.
I will keep updating this family – Christmas story is in the works. Also one for Another Left Turn, if I can manage it.
Thank you for your encouragement. It means a great deal.
Largo
Hey Largo,
I’m always so happy to read another chapter of Real Tibette and it was great and funny!
You are so talented and i can’t wait to read more!
Hi Bibi, my friend
Thanks so much for reading this and for all your encouragement and friendship. I’m very happy you enjoyed the update.
Take care
Largo
Thank-you for the Tibette holiday story. I enjoyed reading it.
Thanks, Cathy! I’m so pleased you liked it. Make me very happy!
Take care
Largo
Absolutely loved it! Thank you so much for posting.
SG
SassyGran!!
How r U doing kiddo? Gonna mke the trip the exhibit?
Hi
Not making the Exhibit I’m afraid, are you?
SG
Not going this yr. But looking 4ward to the posts by our friends!
Hi SG and Dumplin!
Lovely to see you both here.
Thanks for checking in and reading this update. I hope you are both well.
Looking forward to Laurel’s show tonight!!!
Largo
Totally AGREE w/these comments. NOT surprised that the REAL Tibette fam is adorably caotic as evah!!!
After u’ve calmed down from from the Holloman exhibit maybe there’s a chapter wth yall meeting up wth the Kennard-Porters . . .
Hi Dumplin!
Yes, I’m enjoying the family growing up – working out what the kids are into and how having Alice in NY affects things. There’s a lot of moving parts. Thanks for taking the time to read it and comment. Means a lot.
Take care
Largo
Largo,
I correct the previous comment . . . DISagree that U have been “arrogant” by calling this masterpiece as “REAL”. Pfff! It certainly I S that!!!
Authors on this site have enraptured us with exquisite insight in filling gaps that were not revealed in TLW nor GenQ.
BaddAss Writers U r!!!!
hahaha, you are the best, Dumplin :-)
The gaps…. the gaps, oh the gaps!
I’m so pleased you enjoy what i enjoy writing. It makes it all worthwhile.
Largo x
This was so needed, missed & delicious to deavour.
Excellent writing as per your usual postings.
Tibette has so perfectly fit themselves into each other & draw such strength from one another.
And Angie, trying her hardest to find the right fit & balance in her life & love. Hopefully we’ll get to read in the not to distant future who she meets & really falls in love with.
Overall, a gem & this will join all your other endeavours as my all,time favorites.
Thanks for making our holidays a bit more grateful & joyful.
All my best.
Coll,
Aren’t we the blessed ones who get the healing nectar that comes from creative, humorous, nsightful literature??
Glad U spoke of he “joyfulness” that springs forth
Hey D,
Yes, we are very blessed. I deeply appreciate the efforts of all the writers on this site for giving of their time & creativity in imagining these wonderful stories.
We all need joy in our lives in any form.
Take care my friend.
Thank you for your lovely comments. It means so much to me that you enjoy this Tibette world. I like writing them as a solid team in, as you say, a big messy family, just filled with love and support. Everything we never, ever, saw on the show.
Thanks, friends
Largo