Seven years later
“Watch out!” I hear Webb call out just as Colby shouts “run this way!”
Clint “Go, Go, don’t stop.”
Manny is just waving his arms from the end zone.
Bennett is sitting back laughing. His time comes in an hour.
I cheer from my blanket as I watch. I turn my eyes away as tiny little hands press a cup against my arm and I hear a Delaney say “oh thank you! I’ve never had such good strawberry cupcakes.”
“Mahhhmah” I look at my baby girl as she leans in to kiss my cheek. “Thank you sweetie.”
Delaney’s daughter, Violet, is now handing me a pretend cupcake too. “Thank you pumpkin.” I tell her. “Eat Aunt Sof.”
“Yes ma’am.”
The two girls play together again joining in with the other kids too young for the current peewee football game.
As the game ends, the boys and coach
