Bea burst out of the front door and screamed, “Mommy! You’re here! Noell said you’d be here soon.” She waved her hands out wide. “And here you are.”
So now, Katty wasn’t the most important one? Noell was?
Bea grabbed her Daryl & Dumpty blanket from Katty and half of her books. She skipped ahead and partway up the sidewalk to Noell’s house, then dropped one. Then another. “Mommy. This way. Noell showed me around her house. There was a big storm last night.” She looked at the house. “We cleaned up the branches that fell down at the park.” She giggled. “Then we played on the swings.”
Chatter, chatter, chatter. Take a breath. Take another one.
Take a breath. Take another one.“Noell took me to the store and we got more coloring pages.” She jumped up and down, dropped another book. “I’m gonn
