Michaela's Choice

Author:Lisa Harris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2012-11-27T16:00:00+00:00

Eight

The following Saturday, after the breakfast dishes were washed and put away, Michaela saddled up Honey and headed over to the Johnson farm. The wind blew through the trees, lending a pleasant coolness to the early fall morning. Emma had been feeling particularly well these past few days and had shooed Michaela out the door, promising her that Daniel would be close by all day and able to help her if she needed anything.

During the past few days, Michaela had spent every waking moment cleaning and cooking—anything to keep her mind off Anna’s adoption. Times of prayer had come interspersed with tears of frustration. She knew God had a plan for her life, but she longed for His confirmation of what that was.

“Mrs. Macintosh!” Sarah jumped off the porch steps and ran toward Michaela with Ruby in tow. “Rebecca said if it was all right with you, we could give you a tour of our house today before lessons.”

As soon as Michaela had secured her horse, Sarah grabbed her hand and hurried toward the front porch. “You’ve never seen our room.”

Michaela laughed quietly, certain Sarah’s suggestion was simply a way to delay her lesson. The previous week, it had been obvious that Sarah had not practiced her scales during the week, and more than likely the same would hold true for this week.

“Make it quick,” Rebecca said to the girls after greeting Michaela with a broad smile. “We can’t keep Mrs. Macintosh here all day.”

Sarah and Ruby each took one of Michaela’s hands and led her into the house.

“Did we ever tell you that Father built the house?” Sarah’s voice bubbled with her usual excitement. “Each year he added on until it was big enough for all of us.”

Michaela followed the girls up the narrow staircase to the second floor, the one section of the house she’d never seen.

“There are four bedrooms upstairs,” Sarah informed Michaela. “Ruby and I share a room.” Sarah wrinkled her nose and stuck out her bottom lip, apparently not thrilled that she had to share a room with her little sister.

The girls led her to a room where there were two small beds with pink and white matching quilts and a simple pine dresser. White lace curtains hung gracefully on the window that overlooked the front yard, and several hooked rugs lay scattered about the floor.

“This is our room.” Ruby threw herself atop her bed and grinned.

“It’s beautiful.” For a moment, all Michaela could see was Leah’s room. Ethen had painted the walls pink, and she’d hand-stitched the quilt from scraps Aunt Clara had given her. She’d planned to make a quilt for Anna’s room, but now someone else would fill that place in Anna’s life.

Rebecca called up the stairs, drawing Michaela out of the past as she followed the two sisters back downstairs. Rebecca stood in the kitchen drying dishes. Determined to shove aside the ache in her heart, Michaela complimented her on the house.

“Rebecca did most of the decorating,” Sarah said. “Father says she has a knack for it.

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