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Company Coming
“Oh, Heather,” Tom said loudly so I could hear him over the television, “did I forget to mention the kids are coming to visit?”
I stopped dead in my tracks. “What do you mean that they are coming to visit?” I asked.
Tom and I had invited our two kids, Rodney and Marie, and their families for Easter; they both said that they couldn’t make it. That was one of the reasons I agreed to the deadline for my book. I knew the house would be quiet and I would be able to write undisturbed by the patter of tiny feet. Once I had a story, that is.
“They called today, first Rodney in the morning and then Marie in the afternoon, and said they had a change of plans and that they were coming after all,” he explained.
Of course this meant major cleaning and organizing, but nothing tha
