CHAPTER 24: Maggie
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Maggie walked back into the living room and handed Izzy and Peter their water. “Drink up. The movie will be over soon and then it’s time for bed.” She’d found that making them perform most of their nightly rituals in stages helped with bedtime.
“I’m not tired. Can we watch another one?” asked Peter.
“We are on vacation,” prodded Izzy.
“No, because you don’t want to spend all day tomorrow sleeping.”
“That doesn’t sound half bad to me,” mumbled Terry.
She laughed and ran her hand through his soft hair. He was lying on his stomach, his long, lean body stretched across the couch with Davy snuggled under his arm. It’d be the perfect picture except his poor back looked like a cooked lobster.
“I agree but they won’t sleep long enough and then they’ll be little
