Where Love Blooms by Kimberly Brown EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Kimberly Brown
- Language: English
- Genre: Black & African American Women’s Fiction
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JAMISON
“GIRLS, come on! You’re gonna be late for school!” I yelled upstairs to
my daughters for the third time.
Going back into the kitchen, I double and triple-checked their lunches
while my son ate his breakfast. When I looked over at him, I saw that he
was making a mess of his oatmeal. Apparently, he thought he was Picasso
or something the way he was painting my kitchen table.
“Jamison Jareau, Jr.,” I said firmly.
Immediately, he stopped and gave me a toothy grin.
“Don’t smile at me, lil boy,” I said, walking over to him with a dish rag
to clean his mess. “You eat this, you don’t play with it.”
“Nasty,” he said, frowning.
“You love oatmeal, bud.”
“Huh uh!”
“Since when?”
He shrugged his shoulders and grinned at me. “I dunno.”
“Do you want a burrito?”
He nodded, watching me intently as I made him a smaller version of the
ones I made for myself and the girls. Since they seemed to be slow as hell
this morning, they would just have to take it with them. After cleaning up
the mess, I removed him from his booster seat and sent him to the living
room to watch TV.
“Good morning!” my mother-in-law sang, coming through the front
door.
“Hey, Ma!” I called from the kitchen.
She walked in a few seconds later, smothering JJ with her usual
morning kisses as he giggled away. The boy loved his nana.
“Hey, baby,” she said, walking over and kissing my cheek. “How are
you?”
“Tired, Ma. You see this house? Sharice would turn over in her grave if
she saw the mess in here.”
“That she would. But she knows you’re doing your best.”
“Sometimes I wonder.
My wife had been gone for two and a half years now, and I missed her
terribly. I hadn’t had the time to properly grieve her because I still had four
children that needed me. Life never stopped. These days, I felt like I was
wearing myself thin. My parents did their share, but they were living their
best life traveling after getting all five of their children out of the house.
My siblings helped out when they could, but they had their own shit
going on. I was the oldest and the only one with children.
I didn’t expect
them to put their lives on hold just because I needed a little help. My
mother-in-law had been a godsend. She helped whenever I needed it, and I
appreciated her, but I didn’t want to ask her for more than I already did.
“Maybe you should hire some help,” Ms. Nina suggested.
“Help? Who’s going to come into this chaos?”
“Maybe a nanny? Someone to help out with the kids and the cleaning.
You know I love my grandbabies, but we could both use a breather,
Jamison. We’ve been doing this for going on three years. I’m getting older.
I can’t run behind this one like I could with the girls. He’s so active at
times.”
He really was. Like now, he was squirming, trying to get out of her
arms.
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