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We took the boys to the library and read them all the toddler skill books.

Then we took them home and celebrated their birthdays.

Then I went out to my neglected garden to harvest what I could while Royce washed up.

With the boys big enough to sleep in their beds now, we had to get a real bed for ourselves. It was nice sleeping together again, and it was also nice not being overwhelmed about getting everything done.

With the boys in school now, Royce and I spent a day at the festival and collected lots of flowers to sell.

The boys’ school is just across the street from the library, so they stayed in town and hung out with their cousin Claudia and some of the town folk before coming home with me when I finished an opportunity at city hall just next door.

The boys got a baker’s oven, block table, and doll house they’d been wanting for their birthday.

And, while I’m really not an angel, I do feel that when we get luxuries for ourselves, we need to share just as much with others who don’t have those luxuries.

Leisure Day came and that meant Royce stuck his head in a cook book while I tried to upgrade our old plumbing.

The boys invited their cousin Claudia and the paper boy to spend the rainy day with them. The rain did eventually let up, but not before the children all ran around in it. Luckily, we had a real dining set now and had redone the floors and a lot of the woodwork, so they all enjoyed the hot dogs we won at the festival earlier.

We’d bought an extra bed so the paper boy could spend the night. Good thing we did as he later came home from school with Daniel and spent another night.

We also bought some radios and Royce enjoyed working out to the music that played.

The next morning, after the boys went off to school, I was ready to harvest a very special forbidden fruit. He turned out to be another boy, and I named him Dorian after my brother. I still haven’t mended fences with my brother, but I do hope to, in time.

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