Sarah's Orphans by Vannetta Chapman

Author:Vannetta Chapman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780736956086
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

CHAPTER 44

Tuesday was the first day that Sarah hadn’t had a major mess to deal with. After Becca, Suzie, and Mary Beth had left on Saturday, they had spent the morning rearranging the boys’ room to make space for one more bed. “There was a time I had four boys in one room.” Mammi helped to move the dresser so that they could put Mateo’s new mattress along the wall and between Isaac’s and Luke’s beds. It looked like a U-shaped sleeping arrangement.

They placed the dressers at the end of the two beds. There was enough room, but just barely. Fortunately, Isaac hadn’t minded cleaning out half of his drawers for Mateo.

“They even brought sheets.” Sarah felt a deep satisfaction as she made up the twin-sized bed. Apparently, someone had sent out a call, and they had received donations from nearly every family in their church.

“Remember what we said about community? We help one another, and no doubt they would have done so sooner if they had known that you needed these things.”

“I didn’t think to tell them.”

“Someone must have,” Mammi said. “I wonder who?”

Not her brothers. That was for certain. They wouldn’t have noticed if Mateo was sleeping on the couch. It seemed to her that the males in her family were oblivious to most things as long as they had clean clothes and a hot meal.

“I have no idea.”

“Well, it was someone who cares about you. That much is certain.”

They put up the donated items Saturday morning, scrubbed the house Saturday afternoon, and rested on Sunday since there was no church service. It had taken all day Monday to do laundry, but with Mammi there the entire process had gone more smoothly, and they only lost Mia twice.

Now it was Tuesday, and Sarah was looking forward to a day of sewing and maybe even beginning to plant their vegetable garden if the day warmed up enough.

All thoughts of gardening flew away when an Englisch car pulled up in front of the house. She glanced out the window and saw Chloe Vasquez walking up to their porch. “I forgot about the newspaper reporter coming today.”

She had shown Mammi the initial article in the Mayes County Chronicle, worried she might disapprove. Mammi had simply nodded and said, “Gut. People will know that children need homes.”

Now Mammi smiled at her and said, “Why don’t you two do your interview in the kitchen. I’ll watch over this little one.”

So she’d hurried to the door and then spent thirty minutes answering Chloe’s questions.

What was the hardest part so far? Finishing the twenty-seven hours of classes.

What was the best? Seeing the children smile whenever she did the simplest thing for them.

Did she regret getting involved? No. Not at all.

What worried her the most?

Sarah hesitated, and Chloe set down her pen. “Something you want to talk about?”

“It’s a small thing. Maybe it’s small. It seems big to me…”

“Just tell me.”

“Sometimes Mateo speaks in both Spanish and English, interchanging the words.”

To Sarah’s surprise, Chloe laughed. “Some people call it Spanglish.

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