Mark awoke when he felt Lacy get out of the bed. He opened his eyes and watched her get dressed in jeans and a t-shirt. He looked at the clock 5:00am. What was she doing up at this ungodly hour?

"Darlin what ya doing?" Mark asked.

"Going to work." Lacy said smiling at him.

Mark looked at her confused.

"It's a farm Mark, the day starts early." Lacy said.

Mark figured he had to get going too.

He sat up and pulled on some jeans and a t-shirt.

"You don't have to get up." Lacy said.

"Well Darlin, I assume I work around here too, I'm sure it will come back to me while I'm workin." Mark said.

Mark came over and kissed her and then they went downstairs. Lacy smiled. Ethan was up and had made coffee. Lacy kissed her son on the head.

"Morning sweetie." Lacy said as Mark poured them some coffee.

"Morning, I figured I would show Dad what needs to be done this morning and you can work on your Afghans today." Ethan said.

"I don't know Ethan, Maybe I should help." Lacy said.

Mark took her hand and turned it over in his. He seen the callous on her hands from hard work, he didn't know what things had been like up to now, but Lacy wasn't going to work like a field hand no more.

"Darlin, me and Ethan can handle what needs to be done. Now you do what ya need to around here. Ya can fix us breakfast in a couple of hours. You don't have any business working yourself to a frazzle when ya got two men to do it." Mark said.

Lacy's eyes got wide.

"Boy you can be real bossy when you want to cant you?" Lacy asked.

Ethan laughed.

"He's right Mom, you can catch up on your crafts, you been saying how you need to finish them so you can sell them." Ethan said.

Mark just smiled and bent down to kiss her on the lips.

"And don't forget, I expect breakfast in a couple of hour's woman." Mark teased.

Lacy just laughed.

"Yes sir." She said shaking her head.

Mark set down his coffee cup and him and Ethan left the house. Lacy went to the living room and decided to work on her Afghans a couple of hours before the kids got up.

Lacy sat in her rocker knitting. Her thoughts were on Mark. She shouldn't have let him make love to her last night, she knew it was wrong. She had just got so caught up in the feelings he stirred in her. Never in her life had she felt so much pleasure. She had only been with her husband and it had been awful. Lacy had no idea sex could be so pleasurable. But it wasn't just that. The kids adored him already. His playful personality and teasing manner was like a breath of fresh air to Lacy. Lacy sighed all that didn't change the fact that soon she was going to have to tell him the truth.

Mark hooked up the milking machine to the milk cows with no problem. Ethan watched in surprise. Mark had done this before somewhere.

"I grew up on a farm ya know." Mark said.

"You got your memory back?" Ethan asked in shock.

Mark stood up and looked blank for a moment.

"No, that just popped out, it's like the memories are right at the edge of my mind but I can't quite see them." Mark said.

Ethan nodded in relief; he had got scared for a minute.

"Looks like you got this under control. I'm going to feed the chickens and the pigs." Ethan said heading out of the barn. Mark finished the milking and sealed the barrels of milk and carried them out to Lacy's truck. He would take them to town a little later. He had collected enough extra milk for the kids today. He would take it to the house when they went up for breakfast. He noticed Lacy had two horses in stalls. He filled their feedbags and then let them out to run in the fenced pasture. He noticed the fence broken in two places.

"Ethan, come help me fix this fence." Mark called to Ethan.

Ethan ran over and held the posts while Mark hammered them back into the ground. They fitted the slats back in and were done.

"We need to go check the fields and weed them. Some stuff like the peppers and tomatoes are ready to be picked." Ethan said.

Mark grabbed the truck and they drove to the large acre they had planted. They pulled several large baskets out of the truck and got busy picking and weeding.

"The apple trees are full to; a lot are starting to fall. We need to get that done today too." Ethan said.

Mark looked up from what he was doing.

"Ethan you're a big help. I don't know what I would do without ya son. With this memory loss thing, I wouldn't be much use. Thanks." Mark said.

Ethan flushed with pride and looked away.

"It's no big deal." Ethan said and went back to work.

Mark smiled. Ethan was a great kid.

Lacy was just setting breakfast on the table when Mark and Ethan came in sweaty and dirty. Mark brought the milk in and set it on the counter.

"I already ran it through the processor." Mark said

"Okay, you two get cleaned up and get back down here to eat." Lacy said.

"Yes Maam." Ethan and Mark answered at the same time.

Lacy laughed at them.

"Get you two before it gets cold." Lacy said.

The two headed for the bathroom in a hurry. They were starved.