108: Stumbled Upon

Evelyn sat in the great room, listening to the radio. It was Andrew’s night to go through the bedtime routine with Sarah and Peter, and it felt good to simply sit for a while. To let her mind wander.

She’d had her hands full with the children most of the afternoon since school had let out. Between the shorter days with less daylight to wear them out at the park and the imminent arrival of Halloween the following week, they’d been particularly rambunctious. More and more often, even her nights responsible for bedtime were requiring an assist from their sterner, unyielding father.

It had taken a bit of experimentation, but she and Lily had finally found a solution for Lily’s raging morning sickness, a combination of strong lemongrass tea and sour hard candies. Mostly Evelyn considered that a good thing. She couldn’t bear to see her best friend looking so exhausted and feeling so poorly, but she also didn’t like that the sour lemon drop