Child’s Play_(0)
We sat in deck chairs and watched our children play. My seventeen year old girl was chasing her cousins with a garden hose trying to soak my sister’s two kids, Jodie had them cornered and was spraying them mercilessly. Wade and Lexis my nephew and niece were my older sister’s twins. Jodie and I were on vacation for a few days visiting to celebrate the twins eighteenth birthday two days before, Jodie was two months shy of eighteen but we feted her birthday with her cousins’. The big party was history but I was planning on two more nights at my sister’s place before I took my daughter home. My brother-in-law had left that morning for a four day business trip leaving my sister Maxine and me to keep the three teens corralled while they …