Katt's in the Cradle by Ginger Kolbaba & Christy Scannell

Author:Ginger Kolbaba & Christy Scannell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 24

Jennifer

Friday, May 2

8:12 a.m.

Jennifer loved her family day off. She and Sam had taken off Mondays and Saturdays before, but they found there were too many loose ends to tie up on a Monday after their church’s Sunday services. So now they took Fridays and Saturdays. By Friday, Sam could have his sermon written (at least that was the goal) and they had most of the week’s church business handled. Plus it gave them two days off in a row.

Of course, it was rare for them even to have one day off without someone from the church needing one or both of them. But it was good in theory, at least. And this Friday was set to be busier than most, with a visit to her newly found father. She was eager to introduce him to Carys and Sam. And, of course, to get more of her questions answered. She’d even written them on a piece of paper she kept in her purse—she was up to forty-seven!

This morning, both Sam and Carys were sleeping later than usual, so Jennifer savored the quiet time. She put on a pot of coffee, then propped open the back door slightly to get fresh air. A deliciously warm sun was already pouring light into the breakfast nook.

Curling up on a dinette chair while the coffee brewed, she read her morning devotional from My Utmost for His Highest and said a brief prayer for the day’s events. By that point her coffee was brewed, so she poured herself a cup, using her favorite, an I Love Mommy cup that Sam had given her last year for her first Mother’s Day.

She walked back to her seat and turned her attention to that morning’s paper, which she’d retrieved earlier from their front porch step. She flipped it open and started paging through the contents. World news, local news, editorials—those parts didn’t interest her much. The lifestyle section featured dresses that “go from the office to happy hour”—not a real draw for a pastor’s wife, she thought. Continuing to turn the pages, she ended up in the obituaries section. Since she’d lived her whole life in Red River, it wasn’t unusual for her to find the parent of a former classmate—or even the classmate himself or herself—listed.

The small entry at the top right of the page caught her eye:

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