Chapter 1
"Gosh darn it Wanda! Why are you so good at board games?" My husband said after I beat him at checkers for the 10th time.
"I'm knowledgeable." I told him. It's one of my special skills."
"Oh yeah!" he retorted. "Well do you know my special skill?"
"Farting? I asked him. "Burping the alphabet incorrectly?"
"No!" he replied. "I can…" he thought a minute. "I can…" he turned around to face me.
"I can do that stuff and do more gross things like talking with my mouth full just like Timmy can. And I can be naked when ever I feel like it!"
"Only when you're taking a bath or a shower." I reminded him. "It's just not right to do it on purpose in front of public."
"I can if I wanted to." Cosmo said. "If you let me. But you won't let me! If those babies on TV did it, than why can't I? I thought this is a free country, it is not?" I wanted to add something, but Poof interrupted our conversation.
"Mama! Dada!" Poof replied happily while he showed us a dinosaur picture that he colored in a green crayon. Cosmo and I looked at the picture in our baby's hands.
"Good job Poof!" I congratulated him. "You're becoming a little artist, aren't you?"
"Poof!" he replied, proud of what he just done.
"Uh, no offence Poof," Cosmo told him. Our son looked at his father and waited for his comment. "But you drew outside of the lines, I think it's supposed to be inside the lines, at least that what my mama and Wanda told me."
"Cosmo," I stated. "He's just a baby; he'll learn when he's older."
"Well how do you know?" My husband asked. "What if he's like me and never really learns?" Again I wanted to say something to him, when our godchild, Timmy came into the room. He was carrying a little pink flower in a plastic cup with dirt around the plant.
"Hey Timmy, what're you doing with that plant?" Cosmo asked the ten year old boy. "Going to exterminate it? Can I help?!"
"No Cosmo!" he told him. I'm giving it to my mother as a mother's day gift." He put the plant safely on his windowsill so the sun can shine on it. He than watered the plant with his watering can. "I planted it at school." He finished.
"Aw Timmy, that's very sweet of you." I told my godchild. "I bet your mom will love it!"
"I hope she will too Wanda." Timmy said, proudly.
As long as she doesn't touch it!" Cosmo piped up. Than my husband gave a worried look.
"Wait, did you say Mother's Day?" He asked.
"Yup!" Timmy replied. "Today and tomorrow, then its Mother's Day the next day!"
"Than I better go to the store to buy my mama a gift!" Cosmo said.
"Relax." Timmy replied. You have like one day and a half to do it. You don't have to rush."
"But I have to buy ma mama something before I forget!" Cosmo told Timmy.
"You can go after I ask you guys a question." Timmy explained.
"A question?" Cosmo said. "You know if it has anything to do with education, than I'll probably fail."
"Don't worry, it's easy." Timmy reassured him.
"You mean easy for you, or easy for me?" Cosmo wanted to know.
"Just ask the question Timmy!" I encouraged him.
"Well Mr. Crocker asked the class what's the best gift that they gave to their moms on Mother's Day, and I said either the glass plate I made in kindergarten, or the rug I made last year in 4th grade. Now I want to know what's the best gift that you guys gave to you moms on Mother's Day?"
"I gave my mom a dead frog once." Cosmo said. "She said that it was the greatest gift that she's ever gotten! Unfortunately, I never see it anymore."
"Mama!" Poof replied.
"Aw! That's my boy!" I said, patting him.
"What about you Wanda?" Timmy asked. "Did you ever give your mom something special for Mother's Day?"
"Well one year I made my mom a seashell necklace." I replied.
"That's nice." Than he looked at Cosmo. "Ok Cosmo, what are you going to give you mom this year?"
"I don't know!" he confessed.
"Let's think for a while." Timmy suggested. Or we'd be at the store for hours."
"Or for a million years!" Cosmo added. Timmy narrowed his eyes at him. "Ok let's think!"
While they were thinking, I went into a fishbowl and turned into a goldfish. When I went inside our castle house, I turned into a fairy again and went to our bedroom. I laid on my bed and pulled the pillow aside, revealing a photograph of my family taken more than 10,000 years ago. I picked up the photo and looked at it. We were a happy family. I looked at my mom on the left by Blonda.
"Oh mom," I whispered to myself. "You were so happy with us. I wish you didn't have to go." I started to have tears in my eyes.
"Wanda are you ok?" I heard a noise above me. I looked up. It was Cosmo. He, Poof, and Timmy were all standing/floating beside my bed.
"Oh hello guys." I said. I looked at the picture at my mom again and sighed.
"Is that you mom?" Cosmo asked me. He and Timmy looked at my picture.
"Yes." I said.
"Do you miss her?" Timmy asked. I looked down at the ground and started crying.
"Yes, I miss her everyday!" I sobbed, putting my hands under my face and weeping.
"You guys are lucky that you all have moms that love you, I don't even know where my mom is, or if she has forgotten me!" I cried harder.
"Mama?" Poof asked, wondering why I was crying. Cosmo came and sat beside me on my bedside. He put his hand over me.
"There, there. It's all right!" My husband comforted me. "You mom's out there somewhere, I'm sure of it!"
"Are you sure?" I asked him wiping a tear out of my eye.
"No." He confessed. "But I do know that you can't cry over orange juice, and that you don't have to worry."
"Well I hope you're right". I said lighting up.
"I hope I am too." Cosmo replied. "Because I can't bear tosee you cry like that!"
"I'm sure Wanda will be fine." Timmy replied.
"For now at least." I told them. Than I looked at Poof, he looked down with tears in his eyes.
"Poof mama?" he asked.
"Don't worry Poof." I comforted my baby. "I won't cry anymore." Than Poof looked at me and smiled.
"Poof poof!" he said happily, waving his rattle.
"Now that that is over." Timmy said. "Cosmo, let's go to the fairy market and get your mom something."
"Ok!" he replied. They were about to go when I said.
"Wait! Poof needs more diapers so Poof and I are coming with you."
"Ok." Timmy said.
"Alright! Cosmo cheered. "Let's get to it baby!" I grabbed Poof in my arms, than we all poofed to the fairy market (Fairies have to by stuff with money like humans do, that's why we don't just poof for the things that we want.)
When we got to The Fairy Market, I got as a cart and put Poof in the baby seat. We went inside. It was busy like always, fairies everywhere.
"Ok, Poof and I are going to the baby department." I told Cosmo and Timmy. "You two go wherever and I'll meet you there."
"Ok sounds good." Timmy said. "Come on Cosmo, let's start searching!"
"Ok bye Wanda!" he waved at me as he and Timmy went into an isle.
"Ok Poof," I told the fairy baby. "Let's see if we can find you some diapers."
"Poof poof!" he said as we entered the diaper isle.
"Let's see big, medium, big, medium." I said, reading of the labels on the shelves.
"Poof, can you do mommy a huge favor?" I asked him. Poof looked up at me with his hand in his mouth.
"Poof?" He asked.
"Can you stay right here while mommy goes and finds some smaller diapers for you?"
"Poof poof!" he grinned as if saying "You can count on me!"
"Thanks sweetie!" I told him, patting him on the forehead, and leaving him alone in the cart.
I couldn't find any diapers that were small, so I asked one of the clerks. He showed me where they were. I said thank you and headed back where Poof was, diapers in hand.
"Ok Poof." I said, returning to the cart. "I got what we needed. Now let's go find daddy and Timmy and let's…" I gasped when I saw the cart, dropping the diapers on the floor. Poof was missing!
