Collette

• Discover smuggled sugar in an old luggage box in the hallway. Patience. She did not deny it…
• Pack all three of the boys for Colorado while Patience finds the water colors and paints portraits of the family

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After I unlocked the car door for Yali, he said pleasantly, “Thanks Mom. You’re epic.”

As I got in the car and drove us off, Patience said to me in my just-got-up state, “You look like a princess.”

Must have compared notes.

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Puck, mumbling in his sleep when I came downstairs that morning…

“Who said you couldn’t put out a tire?”

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Apparently Yali had decided to add water that was so hot to his bath, that his body was actually steaming as he emerged from the tub that evening…

“Now I am! FIRE BOY!”