Matched and Married by Kathleen Fuller

Author:Kathleen Fuller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2021-09-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

The next morning, after getting a good night’s sleep and then eating a hearty breakfast, Margaret helped Mary bake bread for the week. She liked that her aunt didn’t just make plain old white bread, but also cinnamon raisin and a small loaf of wheat for Freemont. Back home her mother only baked white bread. Maybe when she went back home, she’d ask her mother to try Aenti Mary’s cinnamon bread recipe.

That thought brought her up short. She knew exactly how that conversation would go. “We’ve always had white bread,” Mamm would say. “There’s nee reason to change that now.”

But that wasn’t the only thing that gave her pause. Even though she’d only been in Birch Creek a week, she didn’t feel a drop of homesickness. She would have to return in two more weeks since she had promised her mother she would. Then again, maybe she could tell her she needed more time to find a husband.

No, that wouldn’t work. That would be outright lying, and she refused to do that.

“Ira stopped by before heading out to the field this morning,” Mary said, adding a handful of raisins to the cinnamon-flavored dough on the kneading board. “Nina’s been asking after you. He wanted to know if you could geh visit her this afternoon and then stay for supper.”

Margaret froze, her hands dusted with flour and hovering over a ball of yeasty bread dough she was about to roll out. Uh-oh. She did want to see Nina again, especially to find out how her talk with Ira went. She’d seen Ira briefly yesterday morning before she went to Carolyn’s, and he didn’t seem any different from how he usually was. Then again, she knew about the miscarriage, and like Nina, he probably didn’t want to share the news just yet.

But she also wanted to spend the afternoon with Owen again, even though she’d just seen him yesterday. She needed to thank him again for helping her out. Fortunately, Aenti Carolyn found the situation amusing and wasn’t upset that Junior had made a mess. “It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last,” she said, laughing. Even Margaret could see the humor in it, but she was certain she wouldn’t think her babysitting disaster wasn’t so bad if Owen hadn’t given her an assist.

She also had to admit he was cute when he brought up the butternuts the other day. She wondered if he knew how red the tops of his ears were as he was talking about panta-whatever acid, something she was fairly sure he’d made up just to get her attention. He’d gotten it, and she was excited to look for butternuts. They had them back home in Salt Creek, and she enjoyed eating them when they were ripe. She had searched for the acid Owen mentioned in her book last night, to see if it had any healing properties. Although there was a chapter on butternuts, the acid wasn’t mentioned. She didn’t have any luck

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