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A Warm Day
"Sloan be careful, be very gentle." Jackie told the little boy who was playfully tickling baby Hundley as Hundley sat in Jackie's lap on the couch while the other kids were playing on the floor.
Hundley was in a playful mood because she reached out and grabbed his finger.
He squealed happily.
"Her got me." He told Jackie.
Jackie laughed.
"She did get you, didn't she?"
Sloan played with the baby for a while longer and then began playing with Houston racing cars around the room.
The baby started to get fussy so Jackie quickly got up and made her bottle and then carried her back into the living room so Jackie could feed her and watch the other kids at the same time.
When the baby had finished the bottle Jackie grabbed a burp rag and then gently put the baby over her shoulder so she could burp her.
"No mama." Johnna said suddenly as she came up and tried to grab Jackie's hand so it wouldn't "strike." The baby's back.
"Oh Johnna, what a great big sister you are, trying to protect your baby sister but sweetheart, mommy isn't hurting the baby, I'd never hurt the baby, I'm burping her, if she doesn't burp she'll get a tummy ache." Jackie explained with a kind smile.
Johnna seemed to believe Jackie's explanation because she resumed playing with her other siblings on the floor without another word.
Soon Nick walked through the door.
All five kids raced at him.
"Hi guys." He told them with a kind yet extremely tired smile.
"Bad day?" Jackie asked as he plopped next to Jackie and Hundley on the couch.
"Yep, people are monsters, my case was about a little girl, her father was plain evil and that's all I want to say about it, I don't even want to talk about it's so horrific."
Jackie shuttered, Nick was right, some people were just plain evil.
A while later Nick sat at the kitchen table, eating a sandwich, trying to get his terrible case out of his mind, which wasn't working.
"Hey, I thought we could all go for ice cream." Jackie told him with a whisper so the kids couldn't hear.
"Oh honey, can we go tomorrow? I honestly just want to take a shower and then take a nap."
"Sure, we have ice cream here, I'll just give the kids some here and maybe tomorrow we can take the kids to the new spray park, it's suppose to be in the 80's."
"Alright that sound like a great idea, they'll love it."
"Ok then, it's a date, go take your shower." She said as she placed an understanding kiss on the top of his head.
About an hour later Jackie got all the kids bowls of ice cream, and one for herself, and then Jackie and all the kids went outside to eat their treat so it would be quiet in the house for Nick so he could get some undisturbed sleep.
"Mama?" Sloan said as he pointed at his ice cream.
"What kiddo?" She asked.
He again just pointed at his ice cream.
Jackie looked in the bowl and didn't see anything in there other than ice cream.
"Sweetie I don't know what you want?" Jackie told him apologetically.
He then seemingly licked the air, she stared at him blankly before she finally realized what he was trying to tell her.
"Oh buddy, we don't have any ice cream cones, I'm sorry."
Sloan frowned but then immediately got back to eating his ice cream without a complaint.
Jackie smiled as she looked around at all her kids enjoying their treat.
It was a nice day outside and ice cream was the perfect thing to eat on such a nice day!
The End!