Advantages of a big family #7
You will always have company wherever you go.
I have rarely gone anywhere alone for the last 26 years.
Usually that’s a good thing and these days I think it is a great thing!
Today I went on a mission to the best bakery in town to buy two chocolate chip coffeecakes for our Thanksgiving brunch tomorrow and I slipped away with just Number Nine!
With my wonderful traveling companions no errand is mundane! It is an adventure. An adventure because it is often a whole new experience for my companion. And I will do my best to make it an adventure to remember.
This bakery was so popular that we had to stand in line for 20 minutes.
The smells we tantalizing and we actually saw a real baker.
Not like the chain stores. No way!
Nine read every sign in the store. She is a magnificent reader.
When it was our tune I threw in a chocolate doughnut for Nine and a a iced turkey cookie for Three and Four.
I’ve been getting these cookies with seasonal decorations for Three and Four for sixteen years. Nine did the math perfectly.
We even rescued a worm in the gutter by our car. Everyday fare when you travel with the president of the worm club. Now he (or she) will spend the winter in our back yard six feet down making fertilizer all season!
Like music to my ears she said, “I’m glad I went with you today Daddy!”
I am too.
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