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Chapter Ten
Laurel took the kids over to Harlan and Savannah’s apartment that Saturday. She still felt a little guilty leaving her kids overnight with them. Harlan met them at the door. “It’s about time you two got here,” he told Cody and Katrina with mock severity. “I thought I’d have to go get supplies alone.”
“What supplies, Uncle Harlan?” Cody asked.
“Dinner and dessert. I thought we could have pickled pig’s feet and snake lips. How does that sound?”
There was a chorus of “eew” and “gross.”
“Do we hafta, Uncle Harlan?” Katrina asked. “We don’t like that.”
Harlan looked astonished. “You don’t? But you’ve never had them before, have you?”
“Nuh-uh.” They both shook their heads vigorously.
“Then how do you know you don’t like them?”
“We just know,” Cody said firmly.
“Well, okay. I guess we’ll have to have pizza and ice cream instead.”
“Yay!” they both said.
“Go wait for the elevator and I’ll be there in a minute.”
They ran off chanting “ice cream and pizza, yay!”
“I was feeling guilty for dumping them on you but something tells me you don’t mind,” Laurel said, knowing her brother’s two favorite food groups.
“Are you kidding? We love having them. Now, I’m on a mission to get ice cream and pizza.”
“And there we have it. The kids are an excuse for you to have your favorite foods.”
Harlan laughed but didn’t deny it. “Travis and I are just glad you’re finally letting us do something to help you. I’m coming,” he called to the kids. “See you later.”
Laurel went in to talk to Savannah and found her sitting on the floor in the midst of a mountain of yarn. “What in the world are you doing?”
She held up two knitting needles with a tangle of yarn semi-covering one. “I’m knitting. Or trying to.”
“I didn’t know you knew how to knit.”
“I don’t. But I’m determined to learn.” She picked up a book she had open beside her and showed Laurel. “I’m supposed to be able to teach myself.”
“Why?” Knitting wasn’t something she’d ever wanted to do. But it might be fun, she thought, looking at the variety of colors Savannah had.
“Because that’s what you do when you’re pregnant.”
“You’re pregnant? Savannah, that’s wonderful,” Laurel said, hugging her. “I’m sure Harlan is over the moon.”
“He is. We both are. But I want to make something for the baby. Do you know how to knit?”
Laurel laughed. “No, but I know how to buy knitted things. Why do you have so much yarn?”
Savannah looked a little shame-faced. “Every time I saw a pretty color in a magazine I ordered it. It took me a while to figure out I wanted baby yarn. Who knew there were a million different types?”
“Baby yarn?”
“It’s really soft, which makes sense, of course. Anyway, when I finally decided it was time to actually start knitting—” she waved a hand at the yarn “—I discovered I’d ordered way more than I needed.”
