I wound up having to get new debit cards for both of my accounts at the local bank.

They were skimmed at the grocer’s office, which is the only place that I present the cards in person.

At this point, none of this surprises me. I’d love to move out of Texas and look forward to doing so at the earliest possibility. I’m continuing to save up donations in the kids’ ABLE accounts, which I set up a year before I registered this blog URL in 2018. They’re out of state because Maryland was accepting, and continues to accept, out-of-state registrants, has the lowest fees, and Texas was one of the last states in the nation to set up ABLE accounts after they became codified in federal law. But I would honestly love to move.

I continue to keep his urn somewhere on our desk, although I haven’t really made the strides that I’ve wanted to make with writing the victim impact statement that I’ve been given the opportunity to write. Kentucky hasn’t been as clear as I would have liked, or even like, them to be about where the perpetrator is at in the whole process of sentencing (other than “review”, what’s that?). This is almost all I have left of him.