The Wife He Never Loved
This was Theo, who was four, and who believed that most missions, when you really got down to it, were secretly about cookies.
“It is NOT the cookies,” Mira said. “Although.” She considered. “Maybe later it’s the cookies. But FIRST.” She unrolled their map, which was a placemat she had drawn on in marker and which her mother did not yet know about. “We are pirates. And we are going on a pirate adventure to find the treasure of…” she squinted at the placemat “…the treasure of the Sea of Behind The Couch.”
“Ooh,” said Theo.
The youngest, who was two and whose name was Sunny and who could not yet pronounce most words including her own name, contributed by putting a wooden spoon entirely in her