May 2003
Clara-Susan was now two months old and Mary-Helen was going to be two in June. She was a very active little girl who could easily tire Michelle out. The little girl seemed to know exactly how she could bring Michelle to get angry or how she could make Michelle do things she wanted and to give her things she wanted. Mary-Helen was able to manipulate Michelle. Michelle and Tony both knew that. But Mary-Helen does not really have the possibility to do that very often because she is in Daycare all day.
"Tony are you takeing Mary-Helen this morning." "Sure. I will take her on my way to work." "Thank you." "You are welcome. Are you going to be alright with Clara-Susan here?" "I will. I will see you tonight." "You will. I will pick her uü in the evening." "OK." Tony pulled Michelle into a hug and kissed her temple, careful not to hurt Clara-Susan in her arm. He then kissed his little daughter good-bye. "See you tonight Tony!" "Love you." Tony and Mary-Helen left the house. He would bring her to daycare on his way to work.
Michelle enjoyed the quietness in the house and enjoyed having time to do things she wanted to do for a long time. Normally Michelle brought Mary-Helen to Daycare and picked her up. But she was thankful that Tony did it today. Michelle put Clara-Susan down on the blanket in the livingroom and sat down on the couch reading a book. After Clara-Susan had been fed and changed a little while later and brought to bed Michelle returned downstairs and went to the shelf in the livingroom and pulled out six empty photoalbums. Then she went to the drawer and pulled out the bags from the photostore containing the photos of her family. She then sat down at the dinningroom table and slowly put the photos in the albums. Those photos were the photos from the time since she had started dating Tony in 1997.
In between she tenden to Clara-Susan who woke up and needed attention. After that she returned to the photos. Around 1:30 p.m. she had finished her task after 5 ½ hours. While she was prepareing lunch the front door opened. She went to the bedroom and took her gun out of the drawer. She then returned to the kitchen but when she saw Tony there she dropped the gun on the floor. Tony who had her back to her turned around and saw the gun on the floor. "Michelle?" "Tony!" She ran up to him and ran into his hug. "I heard someone come into the front door and went to get my gun because I thought it might be a stranger or a criminal. When I saw you I droped my gun because I was relieved." "Calm down Michelle." He stroked her back to soothe her and stoped her rambeling by turning her face to his and kissing her. "I am sorry that I scared you Michelle." "It is alright. But do not do that again. You scared be to death." "I will not." "Are you staying for lunch?" "Yeah." "I was just starting when you came."
"Michelle why are their photoalbums on the dinning room table?" "Come here." She took his hadn and led him to the dinning room. "I put the photos of the last six years in albums. And I labeled each photo." "So the photos in the drawer are gone?" "Yes finally." "Yeah." "Let us make sure that we put our photos in albums on a more regularly basis. Because six years is along time." "Ok." They returned to the kitchen and ate their lunch. After Tony said good-bye to his wife and daughter. He returned to work and Michelle took a rest on the couch while reading the book she read early in the morning.
After Clara-Susan had taken her afternoon nap Michelle put her in her stroller, the one for only one child the other is for her and Mary-Helen, and took a walk with her. When she returned at around 5 p.m. Michelle was surprised to see Tony´s car in the driveway. When she entered the house she heard Tony and Mary-Helen playing in the livingroom. "She went to the livingroom with Clara-Susan on her arm. "Tony!" He got up and went to Michelle and gave her a kiss. "Hey!" "Why are you home so early?" "I decided it might be nice to have some family time." "Yes it would be nice." "Where did you just come back from?" "I took a walk with Clara-Susan." "Well it is nice weather." "Definitely."
The family went out to the backyard and watched Mary-Helen play. In the evening the family enjoyed the time in the house and Michelle and Tony brought the kids to bed together.