A Spring Day
SS by Chris
‘It is such a beautiful day for a picnic’ I thought as I opened the patio doors.
The sky was bright blue, and there wasn’t a cloud in sight. It was April, so the temperature wouldn’t get that hot and it wasn’t too cold either. It was the perfect spring day in Kentwood.
Just as I was about to go back in the house these two giant arms grab me by the waist and the most wonderful kisses are being placed up and down my neck and shoulders.
“Good morning to you too,” I said turning around to kiss him properly.
“Good morning sweetheart,” he said as I turned around and leaned against him.
“Such a beautiful day isn’t it.” I said.
“Oh yeah, such a beautiful day. And what a better way to spend it than with my beautiful wife” he said kissing my cheek.
“So what is on the agenda for today?” he asked as we walked downstairs to get breakfast.
“Well, I was hoping to invite everybody over to have a picnic outside,” I said.
“That sounds like a plan that can be worked out. Plus I have been dying to try out the new fire pit that we bought,” he said pulling the eggs out of the fridge.
“Ok, I’ll call mama and have her call everybody else. What time should we have everybody get here?”
“Around 1 or 2 should be about right. That would make it mid afternoon and you can’t let weather like today go to waste. Plus that still leaves up plenty of time for tonight,” he said wiggling his eyebrows up and down.
“Yeah…that definitely sounds like a plan to me,” I said with the wiggle in my eyebrows this time.
“Mama, what is for breakfast,” Hailey said entering the kitchen
“Good morning princess,” Justin said picking her up and hugging her.
“Morning Daddy,” she said leaning her head on his shoulder.
“Are you still sleepy sweetheart,” Britney asked.
She nodded, but never said anything.
“Then go back to bed sweetie. There is no reason for you to be up yet,” Justin said putting her down.
“But Garrett keeps hittin the wall,” she said.
“Oh, he is banging into the wall with his crib again,” Britney asked her eldest daughter.
“Justin would you go move his crib away from the wall again. While I put this one back to bed,” she said picking up Hailey and carrying her back to her bedroom.
When Justin came back downstairs, he had two beautiful children in his arms.
“Say morning mama,” he said to the twins.
“Why good morning babies,” she said kissing both Garrett and Morgan.
“They were both awake so I figured that they might like some breakfast two,” he said placing them each in their booster chairs.
“What do you two want to eat?” Britney asked
She got no answer. When she turned around all three of them were watching the cartoons on the TV in the kitchen.
“Okay, I’ll make what I want and you’ll just have to eat it,” she said to herself
“What was that baby,” Justin said walking over and smelling what she was cooking.
“Nothing,” she said and she continued to cook breakfast.
“Oh I’m sure that you said something, but if you don’t want to tell me that’s fine,” he said faking a pout.
A couple of minutes later, the pancakes were finished.
“Here you guys,” she said placing a plate in front of each twin, Justin and one for herself.
“Where Haiwey,” Morgan asked.
“Sissy is upstairs still sleeping,” Britney said placing the bib on her.
“Sissy sweeping,” Garrett asked.
“Yep she’s sleeping,” Justin said doing the same thing that Britney was doing on Morgan.
After breakfast, Britney cleaned the table, while Justin cleaned the children.
They had played in the syrup more than eating the pancakes.
While Britney was cleaning up, Hailey came back downstairs.
“Hi squirt,” Brit said as her daughter pulled herself up to the table.
“You want some pancakes.”
“Yes please,” Hailey said.
Britney was more than happy to make some more pancakes for her daughter.
A few hours later, the kids were watching a movie while Britney was grocery shopping, and Justin was setting up everything for the party later.
Then Justin heard somebody crying.
He ran inside to find Garrett on the floor crying and Morgan was sitting in the corner facing the wall.
“Hey buddy what happened,” J said picking Garrett off the floor.
“Mogwan push me down,” he said still crying.
“Okay, well you’re not hurt so stop crying,” Justin said and Garrett stopped crying.
“Morgan Elizabeth Timberlake, come here,” Justin said sternly.
Morgan didn’t move.
“Morgan come here now,” Justin said
This time Morgan got up and walked over to where Justin was standing with Garrett.
“Why did you push
your brother down?”
Morgan just shrugged her shoulders.
“That isn’t going to cut it missy. Now why did you push your brother down?” Justin said sternly again. He wasn’t yelling at her, but he wasn’t talking like her normally did to his baby girl either.
“He took my bear,” she said holding the teddy bear that she always had in her hands up for Justin too see.
“Did you take the bear?” he asked Garrett.
Garrett shook his head yes.
“Why did you take the bear?”
“I wanded the bear,” Garrett said.
“That is Morgan’s bear. You have a bear of your own.”
“Say your sorry to Morgan for taking the bear,” Justin said.
“Sowwy Mowgan.”
“Now you say you’re sorry for pushing Garrett down.”
“Sowwy Gawett,”
“There, but you both have been bad. So you both get to sit in timeout for five minutes.”
As soon as timeout came out of Justin’s mouth, both kids were crying.
Justin put Garrett on one side of the living room and Morgan on the other.
That is when Britney got back from the store.
“Hey, what’s with all the crying in here,” she said as she walked to where Garrett was standing and picked him up.
Garrett stopped crying and Justin walked back into the room
“Brit, he is in timeout and so is she,” he said pointing to Morgan.
“Oh,” she said putting Garrett back down and he started crying again.
“What did they do?” she asked as he helped her unpack the groceries and Justin explained what happened.
Everybody arrived about one and Justin had dinner ready by two.
It was a rather joyous occasion.
Britney and Justin had just won VMA’s the week before and this was there time to celebrate with family.
There was lots of laughing and playing.
“Why are you over here by yourself,” Justin asked as he walked over to where Britney was sitting in the lawn chair away from everybody.
“Oh I was just watching everybody and thinking how perfect our lives are,” she said rolling into his arms as he sat down.
“Yeah, we do have a wonderful life don’t we,” he said
“Yeah we…