All you need now is a little brother! (Really?)

"All you need is a little brother now!"

That's what the waitress said to my daughter and husband this evening as he was paying for our dinner. I heard it over at my table. That's the only thing I heard her say. Odd how those words found their way over to my ears, half way across the loud restaurant. My husband just played it off, of course. Like any of us would ever pounce on an innocent waitress with "Yea, well she had one...he died!" That would be cruel. Satisfying, but cruel. She's a nice waitress and obviously didn't and wouldn't have meant a cruel thing by it. Sigh. We take those comments in stride now a days. They still sting. They still hang heavy in the air. We still notice, think about, and even dwell on those comments. Months ago a comment like that would have gone in one ear and out the other. Never a second thought about it. But not now. Just another cruel reminder (on top of the endless TV shows and movies) that we've taken a pretty hefty blow from the universe.