Count Your Blessings by K. J. Emrick

Author:K. J. Emrick [Emrick, K. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: South Coast Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

By the time Aaron and Grace arrived, Darcy had put together a minor feast of pork chops and steamed broccoli and angel hair pasta. Jon had helped after he got home but Darcy had finished all the prep work so basically all he had to do was watch over the food while it cooked. The rolls needed another minute or two in the oven but their small kitchen dining table was set and everything smelled wonderful.

Addison was kicking off her sneakers and running past the grownups to go and find Colby just as soon as she was through the door. She might be a couple of years older than her cousin, with the weight of pre-teen girl issues already starting to crowd her life, but those two were definitely the best of friends. Darcy could hear them in the living room, excitedly jabbering to each other about everything and nothing.

Aaron was carrying Zane in his arms, with the little boy’s head down against his shoulder, tickling his scalp with the neatly trimmed brown hairs of his beard. With a wide yawn, his little fingers reached up to push Aaron’s cheek away. He must have played hard today, Darcy thought to herself.

But as soon as he saw Darcy he perked right out of his sleepy state and reached for her with eager arms. She was sitting at the table again and Aaron had to bend down quick to deliver him, or else Zane was going to squiggle his way free in his rush to get to his mother. She perched him sitting on her good leg and then listened to him babble about everything he’d done that day, making sure to put in several comments like, “Really?” and “Wow. You did all that?”

The grownups laughed at the exchange between them. His vocabulary was building by leaps and bounds even if some of it was still gibberish. She did wish she could understand more of what he was saying. She caught Mama and she caught bird and she caught badu—his word for his sippy cup—and somewhere near the end, she was sure she heard Aaron’s name spoken clear as a bell.

She could tell that Aaron heard it, too, from the very pleased look on his face. Her sister Grace had just finished placing Zane’s car seat and go bag inside the door, and now she stepped up close to her husband, wrapping her arms around Aaron’s waist and leaning her head on his shoulder. “My guy did good as a babysitter, didn’t he?”

“He’s a good father,” Jon said as he checked on the rolls, “that’s why. The women of the Sweet family always pick the best husbands.”

Grace didn’t argue, but she did roll her eyes. Darcy caught herself before she did the same exact thing. There was no doubt the two of them were sisters, from the similar facial features right down to the little gestures they had learned from their mother in younger years. Their dark hair was nearly the same length and style now, even.

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