A/N: Wow, what a wonderful welcome back to writing. Thank you to all who reviewed, followed and hit the favorite button! So, far work has enabled me to write more lately so here's another chapter, enjoy!
Also, again special thanks goes to my Beta, McEvoyer! She's the best :)
The next morning Snow was up early as usual preparing breakfast. The aroma of bacon seemed to lure the men from their beds, Henry was the first to the table.
"I was hoping you would make bacon this morning," he said with enthusiasm.
"I guess it's your lucky day," replied Charming as he came into the room and took a seat next to Henry. "I must admit, we're pretty lucky to have such a great cook for a wife and grandmother," he said with a smirk.
Snow turned around and said with a grin, "And I'm so lucky to have such a wonderful husband and grandson who love to clean up after meals." All three gave a slight laugh.
"I call dibs on drying!" Henry shouted.
Charming looked over at his grandson, "Dibs?"
Henry could not believe it, first Harry Potter and now dibs, it was as though they were trying to sound old. "You've never heard of dibs?" Henry asked. Charming shook his head. "Wow," Henry said as he began to think about how best to explain it to him. "Dibs is what you say when you want something and if you're able to say it before someone else then what you said becomes yours to have, did that make sense?"
Charming thought for a moment and then answered, "So, if I called 'dibs' on the bacon then I get it first?"
"Dibs on bacon!" Henry shouted.
"So, I did use it correctly," Charming said with a hint of accomplishment. He then turned to Snow with a look of confusion on his face, "Wait, I still get bacon too, right?"
"Yes, there is plenty of bacon for everyone," Snow assured them.
"There better be, it would be mean to make a girl get up on her day off and all of it be gone," Emma added with a laugh as she was walking down the steps from her room.
"Mom, you're awake!" Henry exclaimed and jumped up to give her a hug. Emma was still getting use to being called "mom" but slowly it was starting to grow on her. As she looked down at her beautiful boy she suddenly remembered her nightmare and the little girl she so desperately wanted to find. Emma's face must have shown her sadness because as she looked up, she could see her mother's worried expression. Snow realizing the need to divert their thoughts she quickly said, "Breakfast is ready, come sit down you two."
They all sat down and enjoyed a lovely breakfast. Henry gave them every detail of his previous day's time spent at the stables and how he felt he was almost ready to ride. After saying this he quickly looked over at Charming with a feeling of hope that he would agree with him. However, Charming replied to Henry with a smile and said, "You'll know when it's time, kid. You're not there yet."
After Breakfast, Henry got ready and left quickly to meet his friends, Hanzel and Gretyl, to going bowling. His friends had never been bowling before and Henry was excited to share the experience with them. When he thought about all the proper things his mom made him do over the years, bowling seemed so out of place. However, she did take him quite often and he looks back on those trips as some of the best times spent with Regina.
Charming looked at the clock, "Oh wow, I'm late for work!" He gives Emma a smile and grabs his jacket then walked over towards the door giving Snow a kiss, "I'll see you two at dinner."
"Goodbye dear!" Snow replied as Charming walked out the door.
Emma quickly looked down at her magazine as she sat frozen on the sofa, hoping her mother would forget she was there. Unfortunately for her, Snow didn't skip a beat and quickly walked from the door over to Emma and sat down beside her. "We need to talk." she said softly but with a stern undertone.
A/N: Hope everyone enjoyed this chapter, it was just a fun little chapter involving breakfast. I've already written the next chapter which involves a lot of Emma/Snow interaction so if you're eager to read please let me know and I will post tomorrow. Until then, happy reading! :)
