The school year ended a few weeks later. It was funny how all of them had birthdays 3 weeks apart. Hershel and the girls had gotten Meredith a puppy for her birthday - her name was Harley and she was a red nose pitbull and she was a white dog with blue eyes - she was 8 weeks old. For heck of it - and also to make sense so the pup wasn't alone growing up he got two more dogs - they also got pitbulls - blue nosed ones but all good puppys. Maggie's was black and white named Tanner and Beth's was tan colored named Spot. They were ecstatic and Hershel found it humorous that all the girls loved their puppys. Hershel's birthday was just celebrated in December.

Meredith was outside helping in the garden getting things ready to transfer the plants from the mini- greenhouse they had in the basement to the main garden outside. She stopped what she was doing and sat on the bench. The girls were playing in the kiddie pool, she smiled watching them. She had only a months left to go, and had a doctors appointment in a few days. She got up and walked inside, Patty was outside with them. She needed to get something upstairs. Hershel was in the barn with Otis checking on the new calfs they had. Meredith walked into the kitchen got a drink and got the lemonade out on the table plus glasses for everyone else. She went upstairs and got the girls their towels and carried them downstairs and went outside on the back porch were the girls and everyone was. She put the towels down on the the table near the garden and helped the girls out of the pool with Patty.

Hershel came over and kissed her, and smiled at the girls. "Hungry girls?" he said ruffling their hair and followed Otis and Patty inside with the girls, holding Meredith's hand. They walked inside.

Meredith had made them sandwiches and lemonade along with a veggie tray.

"Sit. Sit Meredith." Patty said grabbing the plates and stuff. "Sit." she smiled.

"Alright, alright" Meredith smiled, sitting down. The girls sat next to her on the right and Hershel sat on her left. Otis helped Patty and then took seats also. Hershel prayed and they all started eating after.

Meredith got up and went upstairs to use the bathroom and walked back down the stairs, slowly. Her head was pounding but she took some tylenol earlier that day and it wasn't helping. She had been seeing blurry spots off and on during the day. She stopped leaning against the railing and closed her eyes for a minute. She could hear Otis calling her name, she opened her eyes and continued down the stairs and went into the kitchen. She smiled and sat down and took a drink.

"Doing okay?" Hershel asked rubbing her back.

Meredith nodded and smiled. "I'm okay. Just a headache." She didn't want to worry him. She figured it was nothing.

"Alright hon." He leaned in and kissed her cheek.

Meredith smiled and relaxed.

A while later, they got up and walked back outside to finish what they were doing. Meredith stepped down after Hershel, and walked over to the garden and worked outside until it started getting dark out.

Meredith and Hershel along with the girls went inside and got ready for bed. Meredith walked into the bedroom in her nightshirt and laid in bed. She curled up with Hershel and fell right asleep, hard. She was exhausted.