Small Change by Sheila Roberts

Author:Sheila Roberts [aut]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780312594473
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

After her fun shopping adventure, Rachel's solitary dinner felt anticlimactic. The novelty of having time to herself had worn off days ago and she felt the absence of her children like a gnawing toothache.

They would be in New York by the end of the week and the grandparents had plans for them for the rest of the month— everything from museums to Broadway musicals … and, of course, shopping. Claire was expecting to get an entire new wardrobe out of her visit and was ecstatic. Rachel had to remind herself how good this was for the children and a good deal for her, too. Her daughter would get a new wardrobe and she wouldn't have to pay a cent—a true win-win. Still, she sighed unhappily as she put her scant load of clothes in the dryer. How could Girl Camp compete with shopping in New York? At least David would be ready to come home. Of course, it wouldn't be because he missed his mother. Stuffed in a posh New York apartment, the boy was bound to go through basket-ball withdrawal.

Rachel sighed. Both her children were growing up so fast. This month was a taste of loneliness to come.

So you'd better build a life for yourself, she thought as she went to her computer to make a blog entry.

Blogging was rather a small building block, but it was some-thing, and Rachel was pleased to discover that she was already getting comments. “I love the idea of making small life changes,” wrote one woman. “I'm going to check your blog every day for tips.”

Every day? Talk about pressure.

“Instead of getting so much fast food I'm going to make time to cook more meals from scratch,” wrote another visitor. “That should save me a bundle.”

A third woman wrote, “I kept thinking I needed to make a ton more money to fix my life, but you've got me thinking that what I really need to do is learn to manage what I already have.”

Rachel couldn't help but feel warmed by what she read. She'd had a vague idea of helping other people when she wrote her first entry, but to actually see women responding was heady stuff indeed. Maybe she should post a picture of herself in her new bargain clothes.

She paired her new black top with some jeans and slipped on her hot sandals. Checking out her reflection in the bedroom mirror, she liked what she saw. “You diva on a dime, you,” she said to her reflection. She grabbed her digital camera and snapped a shot, then looked at the image on the screen. A shot of her taking a picture of herself looked goofy. She needed a photographer.

She called Jess. “Are you guys still eating dinner?” she asked when Jess answered.

“I'm not,” Jess said irritably. “What's up?”

Something was obviously up at Jess's house, and it wasn't good. “Is everything okay over there?”

“Not particularly.

“Oh, no.”

“Not to worry. What can I do for you?”

“Nothing. Never mind,” said Rachel. She remembered Jess's grumpy mood earlier, and the fighting she'd heard the night before.

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