Gregory A. Patrick
08/15/20
Jaiden – Chapter 53
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At breakfast this morning, Marty said, "Guys, we researched expensive restaurants last night and we have made our decision based on ambiance, menu options, local reviews, and the romantic perspective of our choice.
"Peyton said, "Marty, that choice would be?" "The Bayfront, Peyton." Jaiden spoke up and said, "Marty, we've already taken you there." "Jaiden, we know, but sitting outside with the breeze blowing in off the lake, the beautiful sunset, the harbor lights, everything was so beautiful and the food was delicious."
Jenny spoke up and said, "Besides, Jaiden, we all saw the look on your face when we had dinner at the Bayfront, the way you seemed to daydream while we were there. We all know that place has a special meaning to you and your reaction while we were there was so beautiful to see. Quite frankly, we would like to see that look and the smile you had there once more."
Jaiden didn't say a word as he got up and walked onto the deck and stood at the railing. The ladies' choice of restaurants brought back a flood of emotions for him and he didn't want the ladies to see that emotion as it flowed down his face from his eyes.
Jenny looked at Peyton and asked him why Jaiden had gotten up and walked outside and stood at the deck railing when they said they wanted to go back to and eat at the Bayfront.
"Jenny, the Bayfront has a special meaning to Jaiden and it will always have a special spot in his heart, and that is all I am going to say about that. He'll be OK as soon as he gets his emotions calmed a bit. I'll give him a few minutes and then I'll go check on him."
Everybody went to the den with their coffee and spent some time talking to each other about how they had loved sitting on the overlook and watching the sunset and all the beautiful colors it had. For whatever reason, that night had a special meaning to each of the ladies and when that night was mentioned, they all seemed to go into a daydream that blocked everything else out of their minds.
Peyton went outside to check on Jaiden who seemed to be a million miles away. "Babe, are you ok?" "Yes, Peyton, I am. It's just that every time I see the Bayfront or even hear it mentioned, I remember the night we stayed there and I re-live how you helped me get over the fear of hurting you again. That night was so special and it will always be in my heart because that was the night I realized you didn't just love me, that your love for me went way above my dreams of that love. Jaiden turned to Peyton and hugged him so lovingly as they stood there and cried together.
The ladies were watching them when Jennifer said, "Jaiden truly loves your brother, Jenny, it is so very evident. They have been married for a while and they still show that tenderness to each other and, quite frankly, it makes me a little jealous. We all had slipped into a routine by the time we had been married the same amount of time they have been married."
"When we get home, I am going to do everything I can to revive and keep that tenderness in my marriage. I have learned so much the short time we have been here and I have been blessed to watch Jaiden and your brother. It's the same with Charley and Dale. It's almost like they are quadruplets and read each other's minds. I want that tenderness back in my marriage and I am going to make sure I get it back! All the ladies agreed that they were going to do the same thing when they got home."
"Marty, the last time I was at Mom and Dad's when Jaiden was there with Peyton, they had gone outside one night to watch the sunset over the farm. Jaiden held Peyton in the swing for the longest time. It got late and they were still sitting in that swing with Jaiden holding Peyton as Mom, Dad, and I went to bed. We figured they would come inside shortly and go to bed."
"When Mom got up the next morning, she looked out the kitchen window and saw Jaiden still holding Peyton. They had slept all night with Jaiden holding my brother the same way he had been holding him when we went to bed. Mom broke down and started crying. She went upstairs and asked Dad to come downstairs to see what she had seen. Dad has always been a very strong, obstinate but determined man and when he saw Jaiden holding Peyton in that swing and realized they had been there sleeping all night, he said he then knew just how much Jaiden loved my brother.
I walked into the kitchen about that time and saw Mom and Dad with tears streaming down their faces and asked them what had them so upset. Mom said "we aren't upset, we're happy. Come with me and let me show you something." We walked over to the kitchen door and mother told me to look out on the deck. When I did, I saw Jaiden holding Peyton like he did the night before. Mom told me to take another closer look at them and tell her what I saw. That is when I realized they were still wearing the clothes they had on the night before and I realized that Jaiden had held my brother all night because Peyton had peacefully gone to sleep and Jaiden didn't want to wake him up to go to bed. That tore me up emotionally. After seeing Jaiden and Peyton like that, Mom and I sat at the kitchen table for the longest crying and drinking coffee together.
Peyton and Jaiden woke up about 10 am and went inside to eat breakfast thinking it was just 7 in the morning. When he saw the clock and realized what time it was, he freaked and started apologizing to Mom. Mom finally told Peyton to stop apologizing saying that she had been watching them sleep in the swing all morning and that it had been a long time since she had seen anyone loving their spouse the way she saw Jaiden loving him. Mom grabbed Jaiden and gave him a hug only a mother could give, kissed him on the cheek, and thanked him for loving Peyton so intensely. Jaiden hugged Mom back and told her his love for Peyton was way more intense than what she had seen. He said that love was so intense that even he couldn't describe it's depth.
When Mom sat their breakfast on the table, she still had tears in her eyes. She sat at the table and watched them in amazement. She said she had never seen two young people love each other so intensely.
That was the morning when we realized the depth of their love for each other. They have been such an amazing couple together. Their demonstration of love has been a lesson for all of our family, and for two years that display of love has never changed. I can't wait to see them with the children.
Angie, Marty, and Jennifer agreed with Jenny and told her that staying with us in our home, getting to know the four of us brothers, seeing the love they saw and felt, and seeing how we lived and treated others, all of that made them so proud to have offered and followed through on their gift to us.
Angie and Marty, in particular, said they were so proud of everything they had witnessed and heard about the brothers while in Erie, and they said they had never felt someone was more grateful for anything than Dale, Charley, Peyton, and Jaiden.
Jenny told Marty and Angie that she had never seen anything that spoke otherwise of her brother or Jaiden. She told them how Jaiden was sitting in the kitchen and just lost it and how her mother went and sat beside him, held his head to her shoulder, and rubbed his back until he calmed down. Dad was sitting at the table with them with tears streaming down his face.
Jenny related that when Jaiden had calmed down, he told her parents that he had finally been able to let go of the pain and loneliness he had held in for so many years after his Dad died in the plane crash when he was three. He has never told his mother how he felt and, while he was sure she knew, she never said anything to Jaiden about his angst. Jaiden told Mom and Dad that he had finally found the family he had always wanted.
He looked at Dad and said he had finally found the Dad he had always wanted; a Dad he could talk to about anything; a Dad he felt loved him despite his faults; a Dad who would always have his back. Dad held Jaiden as he cried his heart out that morning. Jaiden's tears were falling on Dad's arm and his tears were falling on Jaiden's head. That was such a beautiful, loving morning.
Jaiden looked at Mom and told her she had helped him get rid of so much pain he had held in simply by the way she treated him. He said that while he knew his Mom had done her best to ensure he had a happy childhood, Mom made him feel he had a true mother-son loving relationship that provided the family intimacy he had always wanted. We all cried over that statement. I have only known Jaiden for about four years, but I swear I feel like I have known him all my life.
Jennifer spoke up and said it was the same for her and she had only known him for a year. She said that when she secretly flew into Erie and sat inconspicuously in the back of the synagogue when the guys were recognized for doing so much for the community, and when she listened to everything people had to say about Peyton, there was no doubt in her mind she had made the right choice.
No sooner than Jennifer had made her comment, the telephone rang. Dale answered the telephone and it was Dr. James McLauflin, Erie's school Superintendent. "Mr. Jacobs-Anderson, I realize this is very short notice, but we are having two ceremonies this afternoon and we badly need you, your spouse, and Mr. Peyton Riley-Reynolds and his spouse at both ceremonies. Would you please check with the others and see if they can attend the presentation with you?" "Yes sir, but we have four guests staying at the house with us. If it is ok, we would like to bring them with us." "Sir, that will be OK." "Dr. McLauflin, hold on just a second while I get the guys to come inside.
"Jaiden, Charley, and Dale, would you please come inside for a moment?"
The guys got inside and Jaiden asked, "what's up". Dr. McLauflin is on the telephone. The school is having two ceremonies and Dr. McLauflin said they need us at both events, are you free to go? Dale said, "Yes, get the address and times and tell the Superintendent we will be there."
Dr. McLauflin, we can be there. Do we need to be dressed up for the events or is jeans and a nice shirt ok? Jeans and a nice shirt will be fine. And don't worry about having to take your vehicles there, we are sending a car to pick you up. There should be room for you and your four guests. The car will be at your house at 12.
At twelve, there was a knock at the door and when Jaiden opened the door, his eyes almost popped out of his head. "Hey, guys, the car is here, so we need to go. Everybody started leaving through the front door and, when they saw the long, stretched Lincoln limo, they were shocked.
We all got into the limo and the driver started pulling away from the house. We asked where we were going and he told us it was a surprise and we would know when we got there, that the Superintendent told him not to tell us anything. Talk about intrigue!
When they arrived at their destination, it was a new school building that had just been completed. As the limousine pulled up to where it was supposed to park, Peyton looked out and saw his parents standing across from the entrance to the school. Standing there with them was Mom Reynolds, Mom and Dad Anderson, and Dad and Mom Jacobs. That was enough of a surprise. News trucks from Pensacola and Mobile were there along with the reporters the brothers knew from CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox News Networks.
They saw the Rabbis from their home temples and Rabbis Kravitz and Belson and their families. Even the mayors from their home towns were at the school. The question is: why? The young men walked to their parents and gave them hugs and kisses.
The Superintendent approached the podium and began the ceremonies by commenting that the brothers have done it again by drawing up preliminary plans to begin a program designed to target at-risk youth and hopefully channel their minds and behaviors into learning how to be successful and prosperous individuals in the future. As the brothers were standing there, someone came up from behind them and placed a hand on their shoulders. They turned around and it was Judge Stanislauski. Talk about a shock.
The Superintendent continued relating all the things the brothers had accomplished during their short time in Erie, then saying he had not touched on their accomplishments before arriving in the Erie area. He did say that for what they had done for schools all across the US, the Erie Board of Education wanted to further honor them in a very special way.
Jaiden and Peyton, will you two please come with me. Peyton took Jaiden's hand and they followed the Superintendent to a large tarp on the front of the school. As they got to the tarp, the Superintendent picked up a rope and handed it to Peyton. "Peyton, would you please use this rope to pull the tarp off the school building. As Peyton pulled the tarp down, he and Jaiden quickly teared up.
Everybody began applauding as the Superintendent announced the opening of the new Riley-Reynolds Elementary Magnet Academy. Peyton and Jaiden looked at their parents who all had tears streaming down their faces. Jenny and Jennifer didn't wait to go hug Jaiden and Peyton.
The news crews tried to interview Jaiden and Peyton who apologized for being utterly speechless. They asked Jenny and Jennifer who they were and Jenny told them she was Peyton's sister and Jennifer was a friend who was lovingly being a surrogate Mom for Peyton's children. Jenny told them she was a surrogate Mom for Jaiden's triplets. That piqued the interest of all the reporters and by the time they had finished their interview of Jenny and Jennifer, the reporters had already sent a new feed to their stations, and for the moment, they knew only half of the story. Jaiden and Peyton Riley-Reynolds were expecting five children.
Everybody toured the school building and were amazed at the new electronic aids the teachers would have to be better able to teach the children. When the Superintendent turned and told Jaiden and Peyton that their donations to the school system had bought all the new teaching tools everybody was seeing, the reporters went wild and the guests began applauding the couple. To say the least, Jaiden and Peyton were stunned as were Dale and Charley.
When the tour of the building was completed, the guests boarded new school busses and headed across town. The brothers and the ladies rode in the limousine.
When they reached the second destination, they noticed it was another new school building with signs draped as they were at the first building. Everybody exited the vehicle they were in and went to the front of the current building.
The Superintendent began extolling the virtues of Dale and Charley for their work in helping to build the confidence of students who had been having trouble in their classes, trouble that was fueled by the fear of their abilities.
When the Superintendent has completed saying what he had prepared to say, he asked Dale and Charley to join him at the drape on the front of the building. As Dale and Charley joined the Superintendent, he handed Dale a rope. As soon as the crowd reached where they were standing, the Superintendent asked Dale to pull the rope to remove the drape from the building. As the drape fell, Dale and Charley broke into tears as they saw the name of the new school: Jacobs-Anderson Elementary Magnet School. Their parents joined them and hugged them as they shed tears together.
News crews tried to interview them and, like Peyton and Jaiden, they were speechless. Marty and Angie went over and hugged Dale and Charlie. As before, the news crews interviewed the ladies asking who they were and what their relationship to Dale and Charley was.
They told the reporters they were friends of Jenny, Peyton's sister, whose husband was the Rabbi of their synagogue in Oregon; that they had learned so much about the young men that they wanted Charley and Dale to have children they fathered, so they offered to be surrogate Moms for the couple.
They told the reporters that Dale and Charley were two of the most loving, most giving, and most responsible young men they had ever met and they were so very proud to be surrogate Moms for their Children.
Angie and Marty told the reporters they were having twins for each of the young men and that in 7 months, Peyton, Jaiden, Dale, and Charlie would have nine children in their home; however, the doctor had asked to see them tomorrow morning and that number of children could change if either one of them had an ovum split as Jenny had experienced. That is when Charley and Dale became awe struck and couldn't move.
The reporters ran to different spots to record and send another news feed to their stations ending with the news that things could change yet again tomorrow morning.
As everyone toured the second building, everyone was again shocked to see all the electronics for the teachers to use in teaching their students. The Superintendent again told the young men that the money they donated to the school system had paid for everything the guests and the young men had seen.
When the tour was over, the surprise for everyone was that the country club was treating everyone to lunch. Everybody boarded the busses and the young men and ladies got back in the stretch limo and everyone headed to the unexpected lunch.
As they entered the dining room of the club, they were shocked to see the families of the ladies waiting to see them and to meet Jaiden, Peyton, Dale, and Charley.
The ladies hugged and kissed their husbands and their children. The husbands told their wives they had seen everything on televisions the news crews had set up for them and the children in a room at the club.
Each lady asked their husbands who paid for their trip and they told their wives to turn around and they would see. When they turned around, Jaiden, Peyton, Dale, and Charlie were standing there with the news crews.
Marty and Angie looked at them and simply asked: why?
"Marty, Angie, you have been here quite a while without seeing your families, so we wanted to do something extra special for you. Your boys will be staying at the house tonight and will camp out with David and Jason on the deck in Boy Scout tents and sleeping bags. Rabbi Kravitz and Pete Gray, whom you met and have partied with a few times, will sleep on the deck with the boys and their sons."
"Ginny has agreed to come to the house early tomorrow morning and prepare Hawaiian Banana-Macadamia Nut Waffles and fried chicken for the boys. They will have all they want to eat and all the milk they want to drink. Peyton, Dale, Charley, and I, along with the Rabbi and Pete, will take them to Tony's for lunch tomorrow."
"Tonight, you each will be staying with your husband at the Bayfront Hotel in rooms overlooking the harbor so your husband can have a romantic night with you and see with you the beauty of the night's harbor lights. Reservations have been made for your dinner tonight, your breakfast in the morning, as well as your lunch tomorrow. Your meals have been paid for in advance."
"In the morning just before the sun rises, The Lady Princes will take you and your husband out on Lake Erie so you can see the beautiful sunrise and then have breakfast. After you have had breakfast, Dale, and Charley will drive you to see Dr. Schrader. When you have seen him, reservations have been made for you to have lunch at the Bayfront Restaurant.
"When you each have had lunch, Charley and Dale will drive you to the mountain park so you can walk up to the waterfalls and have some quiet, peaceful time together. You may tour the city afterward or do whatever you wish to do. Charley and Dale will be at your disposal for the day."
"Everybody will meet back at the house for dinner. Provided Dr. Schrader approves, you will get to fly home with your family immediately after dinner until it is time to return for the births of the children. Dr. Schrader will explain the medical provisions that have been made for you when you return home to be with your families."
"We truly hope you have a beautiful night tonight and a wonderful day tomorrow with your husband and that your children have a good time watching videos Pete and Allison picked out for them and then camping out. We'll see you tomorrow afternoon. Have a great time!"
Charley and Dale called after they had seen Dr. Schrader. He confirmed that the ladies would be having twins so we would be having nine babies in the house in seven months.
Peyton's parents and my mom were at the house and we talked about what needed to be added to the house to make it big enough for all the babies who would be arriving. We all went outside on the eastern side of the house and Peyton and I showed Dad Riley and Dr. Mom what we thought would work at the least amount of cost. Dad Jacobs was outside with us and made a few suggestions on how to add the rooms and incorporate large, open bathrooms that would make it easier to care for the children as they grew up. He also graciously said he would hire a crew to make the addition of four bedrooms and two open bathrooms for the cost of the materials. He would cover the labor costs. Needless to say, we were all stunned at his offer which we graciously accepted. Charley was in tears over his Dad's offer and Dale, Peyton, and I joined him. Dad Jacobs hugged us all and said it was the least he could do after all that had been done for Dale and Charlie. He kissed us on our foreheads and then said, "I understand that's customary around here." Dad Riley started laughing and said that was a Riley family custom that the guys had adopted. All the Dads laughed at that comment.
Dad Jacobs took pictures and measurements inside and outside the house and said he would get with the architect his company works with and have the plans drawn up to do this project correctly. Once he had the plans drawn up, Pete said he would get the building permits we would need.
The plans were falling into place and the rooms would be ready for the babies when they arrived.
Dale had prepared the vegetables for dinner and was planning to start slow cooking the roast beef at 1 pm.
We all got the boys cleaned up and dressed to go to Tony's for lunch. When we got there, Tony met us at the front doors and said, "I saw the news at home and I had to come up." Then he asked how many folks we were going to have for dinner, and Jaiden told him there would be 26 people. Tony said he would have the diner set up for 26 at 5 pm and that dinner would be on him. Jaiden told Tony that 26 people was a crowd for him to offer to feed. He told Jaiden that we were giving him 8 nephews and maybe two or three little girls in that mix and he was celebrating everything he had seen and heard with us.
Tony told everyone that he had veal parmesan for everyone and if there was someone who didn't like that he had no problem with them ordering something else off the menu. Since everyone said that meal was OK, Tony served everyone veal parmesan with real veal and not the prefab veal patties. As we were getting ready to eat, the news crews walked in with their cameras and filmed everyone in the restaurant. They didn't try to do any interviews saying that they wanted to show the nation what true, loving families looked like.
When they sat down to order their meals, Tony asked if they liked veal parmesan and they said they did. Tony said, "Good, that is what you are getting on the house for being so nice to Jaiden, Peyton, Dale, and Charley. The news crew's eyes almost popped out of their heads they were so surprised.
Since Dr. Schrader had approved the ladies going home with their families, they would be leaving at 9 pm on Delta to return home. The story was to air on tomorrow night's local news in Oregon, Alabama, Florida, Virginia, and Pennsylvania and all the national networks.
The Kravitz clan and Pete and his family came to the house to watch the news with us. Pete and the Rabbi said they had never seen such a positive story on a news program.
Three days after the story aired, bags of mail once again started arriving from all over the world. When the mail finally calmed to the normal amount we usually received, over $300,000 had been received for the remodel of the house.
When we told Dad Jacobs what we had received, he said that would cover the addition and leave us somewhere around $150,000 to help with expenses for the babies and getting them settled at home. He also said that when the time came to fly the ladies back to Erie for the births, to fly them in first class. Charley told his Dad that was an awesome idea and he would tell the rest of the brothers.
Jenny, Jennifer, Marty, and Angie each called to let us know they had gotten home without any problems. What struck us as odd was that their husbands asked to speak with us.
We had the phone on speakerphone so we all could talk with them. Each one thanked us for the romantic time we gave them to spend with their wives. They said it had been such a long time since they had been able to spend time alone with their wives under such awesome conditions. The cruise, dinner on the bay looking at the harbor lights, hotel rooms that allowed them to see beautiful vistas, the evening at the overlook, and the waterfalls gave them some of the most beautiful time they had ever spent with their wives. We told them that was the least we could do for them given that they had agreed to let their wives do such a loving thing for us. There was no doubt we had new friends, if not new brothers, for life. We are so blessed because of them.
Since it was just the guys in the house for the first time in a while, they each took a warm jacuzzi bath with their spouses. Given the usual noise that comes from Charley and Dale's room when they are overly amorous, they were having a good time tonight.
After Peyton and I had a long warm soak in the tub, we prepared ourselves for the ultimate in intimacy. When we had finally gotten ourselves prepared, we got the lube from the closet where we had hidden it while the ladies were in the house. I put Peyton on the massage table and when I had finished his massage, he was so relaxed he was starting to go to sleep. I whispered in his ear to ask him if he wanted to make love or go to sleep. He smiled, pulled me in for a kiss, and said, "What do you think, Babe?"
For the next hour, I made slow, tender love to Peyton. I edged myself over and over and after an hour I allowed myself to climax inside the love of my life. I laid in the bed for the longest with Peyton before I asked him if he wanted to make love to me. He leaned in and began sensually kissing me. When we were both rock-hard, he lubed himself and entered me. He was so gentle and it was so unbelievably enjoyable. When he finally allowed himself to climax, we just held each other and went to sleep.
When we awoke in the morning, we showered and cleaned up and then stripped the bed and put the sheets in the washer with Charley's and Dale's. We got them washed, dried, and put up before Ginny got to the house. When Ginny found the beds had fresh linens on them, she said, "You boys need to leave something messy so I'll have something to do."
We told her she could wipe off the dining room table, wipe off the kitchen counters, and maybe vacuum a little bit and then sit down and watch her soap operas. We had even stripped the beds downstairs, washed and put up the sheets, and then put new linens on the beds downstairs. Ginny complained, "What am I going to do today?" She smiled when we said cook us something good for lunch. "You boys are a mess, but I love you anyway." That comment earned her a hug and kiss from each of her boys."
Ginny told us she had a friend from church coming over at lunch to meet us. She was the person Ginny wanted to help with the children. We all said we hoped she would eat lunch with us and then sit down with Ginny and watch soap operas. Ginny told us not to spoil her too quickly. We laughed.
At 11:30, Ginny's friend knocked on the door. When Jaiden answered the door, he said, "you must be Ginny's friend! Welcome to our home, please come in, put your feet up, and rest until lunch is ready." Ginny walked into the den and said, "Boy, I told you not to spoil her too quickly and here you are already disobeying me. I'll go get the paddle if I have too!" Everybody laughed.
"Fellas, this is my friend, Geraldine McDonald." "Mrs. McDonald it is so nice to meet you and to welcome you into our home. Please make yourself comfortable while you are here."
Mrs. McDonald said, "Let's get something straight off the bat, I am Granny, not Mrs. McDonald. The sound of that makes me feel too old." Ginny told her, "I told you so. These young men are going to show you nothing but respect, and Heaven help anybody if they are disrespectful to you and my boys find out about it." Granny said, "Mr. Peyton..." "Whoa, Granny, I'm not old enough by any stretch of the imagination to be Mr. Peyton. I am just Peyton, this is Jaiden, and Dale is the handsome one, and the ginger headed young man is Charley." Granny told them it was nice to meet them and she was looking forward to helping them with their babies and the house.
"Now, young men, what questions do you have for me?" "Peyton said, "None." Granny asked Peyton what he meant by `none'. He asked her, "You are Ginny's friend, aren't you?" "Yes, sir, I am." "Then there's no reason to have to ask you any questions. If Ginny asked you to help her and she trusts you that much, you are ok with us." Ginny smiled and said, "Geraldine, what did I tell you?" "Martha, you were right. These are good young men, I can tell it." "Told you so."
Ginny said, "I don't raise bad boys! If they aren't respectful, they know what I will do, and they don't mess with Ginny, do you, boys." "No mam, Ginny, that belt of yours hurts." Everybody started laughing at Jaiden's comment.
"Geraldine, I raised Jaiden from birth until he started high school. He may have gotten a bit rambunctious at times, but I never had to discipline him. He has always been mindful and respectful. Always!"
"Martha, what do you do when you are here?" "I mostly cook lunch and dinner before I leave around 5, and they reheat the dinner and then wash up the dishes and wipe everything down. I'll change the sheets on the bed if they need washing, but they usually beat me to that. If the floors need to be vacuumed, I do that. But they never make a mess, so vacuuming is rare for me. They do let me clean the bathroom floors or the tub, but they are so clean, the shower and tub don't get dirty when they take a bath." "Martha, how did you get such a wonderful job?"
"Geraldine, God has always provided for me!" Jaiden said, "and I am so thankful He has. I have been with and loved Ginny my whole life." Ginny looked at Granny and said, "didn't I tell you." "Martha, you sure did. I have already fallen in love with these young men." Ginny started laughing and said, "I told ya!"
Jaiden told Ginny that in about a month a construction crew would be at the house to start adding two large nurseries, two more bedrooms, and two open bathrooms so it will be easier to take care of the nine babies and have a place for our parents to sleep when they come to visit. As soon as the architect gets the plans completed and Pete gets the construction permit for us, the crew will get started with the building process. That should leave you some dusting and maybe some vacuuming. With nine children, we may get that done after we get them fed, bathed, changed, and in bed. Ginny smiled and said, "Keep hoping, son, keep hoping." Then she started laughing.
Ginny is right. Life is going to change, but we have faith that it will change for the good!