The next morning sunlight filters through the windows waking Ray from a restful night's sleep. He looks over and sees Debra curled up sleeping peacefully. He quietly gets out of bed and heads downstairs. The twins are already up watching cartoons.
"Hey guys, you want some breakfast." He asks heading to the kitchen.
"Grandma already made us some." Jeffrey answers, pointing to the dirty dishes sitting on the coffee table.
Ray looks in the kitchen and sees his mother cooking breakfast, "Ma, what are you doing?" he asks as he enters the kitchen.
"Well, I came over here to borrow some antacid. Ugh, your father had one too many hot dogs at that car show, and I noticed the boys were hungry. Where's Debra?"
"She's sleeping, Ma. You know she gets tired easily so I try to let her sleep in as much as possible and I will take care of breakfast for my family. So go give Dad his antacid, especially if he plans on coming over here." He says trying to usher her out the door.
"I was just trying to help," Marie insists, "By the way Raymond, when were you planning on telling us about moving. We wouldn't have known if I hadn't seen the newspaper yesterday."
Ray sighs, "Don't start this again, Ma. We need more space with Emily coming so we are looking for a bigger house. So far we haven't found one bigger that is in our price range. But when we do you will certainly be the first to know. Now please, go home."
"Alright, alright," Marie says leaving through the back door.
Ray shakes his head, Yeah, under a bridge would be nice, He thinks.
He heads back upstairs and checks on Debra, who is awake now reading in bed.
"Hey, tea for two." He says, crawling back in bed, lying on his stomach he gives her belly it's regular good morning kiss, "Good morning Emily."
"Hey yourself, where did you go? I hate waking up and you're not here." She says as he sits up next to her putting his arm around her.
"I just went downstairs to start breakfast but my mother beat me to it." He says kissing the top of her head.
She rolls her eyes, "Oh, I bet she loved that. Are the kids down there?"
"Oh yeah and she had already fed them and now she's calling social services." He quips.
"You know, I really meant what I said about wanting the kids to have their grandparents in their life as much as possible but she obviously isn't going to change. Speaking of which I thought we could look at a couple of houses today. I found one yesterday with four bedrooms in our price range. But it isn't in this neighborhood." She says.
Ray smiles, "Let's buy it!"
"Come on, I don't want the kids to change schools. As much of a pain in the ass your parents are, that wouldn't be fair. But we might have to in order for us to find something we can afford." She concedes.
"Okay, let's take a look. Maybe it will work out. What time did you want to go? Ally won't be back from her tournament until about noon. If we go before then, we'll have to take the twins or leave them with my parents."
"Well lets just wait until Ally gets home and we can all go, no reason they shouldn't see it too. So let's go to 3 pm mass." She says, getting out of bed stretching and heading for the bathroom.
"Sounds good," Ray responsd. He sits on the bed for a few minutes thinking about actually living farther away from his parents when he hears the shower and Debra lightly humming to the radio. He goes into the bathroom, takes off his clothes and gets in with her.
"Ray! What are you doing?" she asks startled.
"Saving water," he says getting soap on a washcloth and washing her back.
She smiles and turns to face him and he washes her belly then nuzzles her neck, "You know you are even more amorous than usual Ray. What has gotten into you?"
He stops for a minute and looks at her, water pouring down on both of them, "Well, to be honest you have never been more beautiful or sexy. You carrying our baby is the most beautiful thing in the world to me."
She looks up at him and their lips meets meet hungrily as the water continues to pour down on them.
"So much for saving water," He says.