It was Saturday afternoon and Lucy was taking the kids out shopping at a local grocery store while Kevin worked. Lucy and her two children Savannah and Jared were just entering the store when someone yelled "Reverend Kinkerk!" Lucy flipped around to find a woman from their parish come running up to her with an empty cart she had just finished unloading her groceries into her car and was bringing the cart back. "Hi Reverend. I thought that was you. How have you been?" The woman whose name was Claire asked setting her empty cart next to a flower display set up.

"Good, great actually" Lucy replied.

"I'm sure glad your back from maternity leave I missed you like crazy while you were away" Claire stated.

"That's good to hear I missed seeing everyone too" Lucy stated.

"So where's the baby you were gone for? I would love to see him" Claire said.

"I love for you to see him here's right…" Lucy flipped around and noticed that Savannah had taken Jared and was headed inside the door while she had her back turned talking to Claire. "Savannah, come back here" Lucy ordered. Savannah sighed and turned around and started walking back to her mom. "Give me Jared" Lucy said she took Jared from her arms. "What were you doing with him?" Lucy asked her daughter. Savannah shrugged. "Well no more of that. You can't hold Jared unless I say you so. Now say hi to Claire and stand by me. Don't leave my side" Lucy ordered.

"Hi Claire" Savannah said she waved her chubby little hand.

"Hey Savannah is that you? I almost didn't recognize you you've grown so much how old are you these days?" Claire asked.

"Three" Savannah replied.

"Wow I remember you when you were a baby" Claire told her.

Savannah smiled "I'm a big girl now" she proudly boasted.

"Yep she really has grown. she's start preschool next year" Lucy told Claire. Claire nodded.

"Well before I forget this is Jared" Lucy said holding up Jared so Claire could see.

"Oh he's adorable" Claire commended. Lucy smiled "thank you". "Can I hold him?" Claire asked. "Sure" Lucy said she was a lot more willing to let people hold Jared then she was letting people hold Savannah when she had been a baby. Claire took Jared from Lucy's arms. She rocked him back and forth.

"I love him he's so good can I have him?" She asked jokingly.

"Go ahead take him" Savannah said.

"Savannah" Lucy playfully hit Savannah on the arm. "I don't think so" Lucy said.

"Oh I know I was only joking" Claire said she handed Lucy back her baby and glanced at her watch. "Oh my goodness I didn't realize what time it was I must be going" Claire said.

Lucy nodded "okay it was nice talking to. Bye".



"Bye-bye" Savannah said. Claire smiled and said bye before walking off.

"What was that telling Claire she can have Jared?" Lucy asked Savannah as they headed inside.

"She can have him" Savannah stated.

"No she can't he's ours he's your brother" Lucy told her.

"Whatever" Savannah said shrugging. They walked inside the store. Lucy grabbed a cart she set Jared in the car seat took Savannah by the hand and walked over to the vegetables.

"We need carrots. Can you hand Mommy a bag" Lucy told Savannah as they walked up to where the bags were. Savannah nodded and took a bag for her mom. She handed it to Lucy.

"Thank you" Lucy said. Savannah and Lucy walked over to where the carrots were. Savannah picked a carrot up.

"No Savannah that's a little ripe we want one that doesn't have any green on them. Can you find any like that?" Lucy asked. Savannah nodded and looked through the carrots. Lucy looked too.

A few seconds later Lucy and Savannah had found five carrots. They put them in the bag and walked over to the bread. "Okay we want white bread can you find me two bags?" Lucy asked.

"Yep" Savannah looked at the bread. She handed her mom two bags when she found them. "Perfect" Lucy set them in the cart and they headed off toward the milk. "Okay" Lucy said once they arrived at the freezer where the milk was. "Can you get Mommy one chocolate milk?" Lucy asked.

Savannah nodded and opened the fridge door and reached for the milk. She was having a hard time lifting the milk and Lucy noticed this so she leaned over and helped Savannah lift the milk into their cart.

"Great now we're going to get two white milks" Lucy said. Once again Lucy opened the fridge and she and Savannah lifted the milk into their cart. "There we have all the milk. Now we need some detergent" Lucy stated. They walked down the laundry aisle.

"Here Mom's going to get the detergent" Lucy said once she found the laundry detergent she wanted. Lucy leaned down and got the detergent from the bottom shelf.

"Hi man" Savannah said as a man walked down the aisle. "Do you want him?" Savannah asked the man, motioning toward her cooing brother.

The man shook his head "no thanks" he got the detergent he wanted and continued walking.

"Savannah" Lucy said setting the detergent into their cart.

"What?" Savannah asked innocently.

"I said no one gets Jared. He's not for sale. He's ours" Lucy scolded her daughter.

Savannah sighed "but what if we don't him?"

"Why would we not him? Of course we want him" Lucy said.



"I don't want him" Savannah said.

"Yes you do. You love him. He's your little brother" Lucy stated.

"Now let's find some dinner" Lucy said.

She took Savannah's hand and they walked over to the meat department. "Do you chicken, hamburger, or fish?" Lucy asked.

Savannah shrugged. "Let's try some fish" Lucy said they walked over to the counter where you buy the fish.

"What's the best salmon that you have?" Lucy asked the guy working behind the counter. Lucy let go of Savannah's hand and turned her back to Savannah as she listened to the guy's reply.

Savannah walked off towards a woman looking at the store's selection of meat.

"Hi lady, do you want my baby brother?" Savannah asked her walking up to her.

The woman turned to Savannah and smiled at her. "Why hello there" she said.

"He's right over there with my mom" Savannah said she pointed over where Lucy and Jared were.

"Why are you selling your brother?" the lady asked.

"Because all he does and cry and stuff. He's really annoying. So do you want him? you can have him for free." Savannah commended.

"I see. Well, all babies are like that. You just have get used to it. You'll like him when he's bigger" the woman explained.

"Do you want him or not?" Savannah questioned again.

"No I think you should keep him" the woman said.

"Fine. Bye lady" Savannah said walking off. She didn't like the woman's response. She looked over at Lucy. She was still talking the meat guy. Savannah walked over to a man who was looking at the chicken.

"Hi man, do you want my baby brother?" Savannah asked.

The man smiled and looked down at her. "No I don't. I have a little boy of my own" the man answered.

"You can have two" Savannah stated. "That's okay. I'm fine with the one I have" the man said walking off.

"Darn it" Savannah said she walked over to a woman she saw heading over to the bakery.

"Hi lady" Savannah said walking up to her. "Hi" The woman answered. "Do you want my baby brother?Hhe's free?" Savannah asked her.



The woman smiled and just shook her head then she walked off.

"Hmm…" Savannah then said she saw another woman walking past her. "Hey lady do you want my baby brother?" Savannah asked.

"Your baby brother? No thanks." The woman told her, continuing to walk. She walked past Savannah.

Savannah sighed "no one wants Jared". Just then Savannah heard her mom calling her name. She was walking toward Savannah. Lucy was done talking with the worker and turned around to set the fish in the cart when she noticed Savannah was not there.

"What do you think you're doing?" Lucy asked. Savannah shrugged she knew she couldn't tell the truth if she did she knew she would be in trouble.

"Well come here" Lucy said grabbing Savannah's hand. "You can't run away from me like that" Lucy told her. Jared suddenly started to cry as Lucy raised her voice.

"What is it Jared?" Lucy said she picked up him and rocked him and back forth as she was walking him she noticed that he was wet. "I have to change Jared and you're coming with me" Lucy said to her daughter.

They walked off towards the bathroom. Lucy opened the door to the bathroom and they walked inside. Lucy opened the baby change table and laid Jared down on it. "Stay there" Lucy told Savannah as she took off Jared's pants. She quickly changed Jared, washed her hands then set Jared back into the cart and turned to Savannah who was standing right where Lucy had took her to stand. "Do you have to go to the bathroom?" Lucy asked.

"No" Savannah replied. "Okay then let's go finish our shopping" Lucy said she took her hand and they walked out of the bathroom toward the paper aisle. "We need to get napkins and I'm going to let you pick out what color we should get" Lucy said.

"Yeah!" Savannah cheered. They walked down the aisle and over to the napkins.

"I want green napkins" Savannah said after looking at all the colorful napkin choices.

"Okay put them in the cart" Lucy said.

Savannah smiled and grabbed the napkins she set them in the cart.

"Good job. Now we need candy" Lucy said.

"Candy?" Savannah's smile grew into a huge grin.

"And you can pick it out" Lucy said.

"Yeah!" Savannah said, jumping up and down as they walked down the candy aisle. Savannah looked at the candy bars eyes wide.

"I want this one" Savannah said picking up a chocolate Hershey bar.



"Oh me too" Lucy said she picked up a Hershey bar too. They put the candy bars into the cart.

"And we should get one for your dad and brother too" Lucy said. Savannah nodded and threw two more candy bars into the cart.

"I also want this one" Savannah said holding up a bag of Starburst. Lucy nodded. Savannah threw it into the cart.

"I like these" Lucy said throwing in some Almonds Joys.

"I want a lot of MM's Savannah said she threw a handful in the cart. "Oh and these" Savannah said picking up her favorite colorful candy. "

Okay I think that's it" Lucy said as Savannah threw two packages of her favorite candy.

"Oh, come on mommy" Savannah she said in her whinny voice.

"No Savannah no more. let's go get some lettuce" Lucy stated.

"But Mommy" Savannah whined.

"Savannah I already said no. Now let's go" Lucy said. She took the little girl's hand. Savannah made her sad face.

"No Savannah. We're leaving the candy aisle," Lucy said. She started to walk of,f but Savannah pulled back.

"I don't want to go. I want more candies" Savannah said she folded her arms across her chest.

"Do you want to go to timeout?" Lucy asked.

"No" Savannah replied.

"Then come with me" Lucy said.

"But…" Savannah started.

"No" Lucy stated she started to walk again this time Savannah slowly followed close behind her. They walked over to the lettuce.

Lucy had turned her back to Savannah for a minute as she looked through the lettuce.

"Hey!" Savannah whispered to a man walking by. The man looked at Savannah.

"Do you want him?" Savannah whispered, pointing at Jared.

The man shook his head and continued to walk. Savannah moved on to the next person she saw a woman who was walking by.

"Psss…" Savannah whispered. The woman looked at Savannah.



"yes" she whispered back.

"He's free" Savannah whispered pointing to Jared.

"Is he?" The woman whispered. Savannah nodded. Lucy flipped around at the moment with the package of lettuce she set it in the cart.

"Okay are you ready to go?" Lucy asked. Savannah nodded.

"Okay let's go" Lucy said she took her hand and they walked toward the cashiers. They got in line.

"We're done" Lucy said. Once they reached the front of the line Lucy started unloading the groceries. Savannah helped her with the stuff she could. Once the stuff was unloaded they were close enough to be checked out. A cashier quickly checked them out and they on their way outside. Once outside they found their car and started unloading the groceries Savannah once again helped with what she could.

Once their groceries where unloaded, Lucy picked up Jared and set him in his car seat while she was buckling in him she told Savannah she could get in.

Savannah nodded and hopped in the car. She buckled herself in.

Lucy finished buckling Jared. She shut his door then walked around to Savannah's side of the car and shut her door, telling her while she was shutting the door that was going to take the cart back.

Lucy took the cart back like she said she would. Getting into the drivers' seat, she buckled her seatbelt and started the car.. A few seconds later they off.

"So Savannah, why were you trying to sell your brother?" Lucy asked.

"Because" Savannah replied.

"Because why?" Lucy questioned.

"I don't want him" Savannah answered.

"What?" Lucy said this was the first she had heard of this.

"I want a girl" Savannah stated. "A girl? So you want a sister?" Lucy questioned.

"Yeah Jared's a boy" Savannah said.

"Why do you want a sister?" Lucy asked.

"Because" Savannah answered. "Because why?" Lucy asked again.

"I want someone to play with" Savannah said.

"Someone to play with? Why can't you play with Jared?" Lucy questioned.

"He's a boy" Savannah stated once again.



"Oh I get it you want a girl because you're a girl so you two can play with the same things is that right?" Lucy asked.

Savannah nodded.

"Well we can invite some little girls over don't you have friends that are girls in daycare?" Lucy replied.

"But they leave" Savannah stated.

"Yes that's true the girl's would leave, but that's after a couple of hours" Lucy explained.

"They would still leave" Savannah argued.

"True. So you want someone to stay. someone who lives in the same house" Lucy stated.

Savannah nodded. "Well I'll tell you what when your daddy and I are ready to have more kids we will try for a girl until then can you promise me that you won't tell and sell your brother" Lucy told her daughter.

"I get a sister!" Savannah stated.

"Yes you might you might just get a sister in a few years though" Lucy replied.

"Yeah! Try now!" Savannah said she was so excited she smiled a huge smile.

"Try now? Sorry Savannah but things don't work that way" Lucy explained. "Why not?" Savannah questioned.

"Well, my body needs time to rest. I just had your brother Jared" Lucy said.

"Your body needs a nap?" Savannah questioned.

"That's right. A one or two year nap" Lucy replied.

"Is that a long time?" Savannah asked. Lucy nodded. "

yeah its long but it should fly by in no time".

"It better" Savannah remarked. Lucy laughed

"well for your sake, I hope it does" she pulled into the driveway and turned off the car.