John, Holly and Milly pulled into the shopping center that held a Lowe's, a Target, A Michaels Arts and Crafts, and a Petsmart. They were there to get Jomo, the puppy, some food and other things.

"All right. I'm going to Petsmart to get Jomo." Holly laughed. She always laughed when she said the name. "Some puppy food and stuff. John, you're taking Milly to Michaels for crafts?"

"Yes. We will meet you in Michaels." John kissed Holly and took Milly's hand and headed into Michaels. "So, peanut, what do you want to look at?"

"Can we look at stickers?" Milly said excitedly.

"Yes." John replied as they walked toward the sticker aisle. It was separated into different sections. "So, what section did you want to look at?"

"Christmas, duh daddy."

"Milly, what did I tell you about that word."

"Sorry." She excitedly headed to the section and began looking. "Oh, I want this one and this one."

John had to laugh as she put one of almost every sticker in the buggy. She picked some Christmas scrap booking paper also.

"Where to now?"

"I want to get some glue, felt, glitter and some jingle bells." Milly said excitedly as they headed to the next aisles.

They got the glue and everything else she wanted and then headed to some other aisles. They looked around the store and got some wood crafts she wanted and they picked up a bear that you could decorate with markers. They headed down the main aisle and by the Christmas candle display. John stopped to look at the How the Grinch Stole Christmas end cap. Milly was right beside him looking at the Christmas candles. She picked up one of the jar candles to smell the Happy Holidays scent.

"Oh, daddy, this one smells great." She said as she turned to show him. Before he could catch it, she dropped it and the jar broke.

"Milly." John said when he saw it fall.

"I'm sorry daddy." She said starting to cry.

"Oh, it's okay peanut." John said hugging her close "We will get someone to pick this up."

Just as he said it a Michaels associate came by.

"I'm sorry. My daughter dropped the candle. I will gladly pay for it." John told the young girl.

"That's okay." Amanda, the Floral Manager, said to him. "We will clean this up. It happens."

"Thank you." John took Milly's hand and they headed down the kids crafts aisle. "Milly, please be careful."

"Okay, daddy." She said picking up a wood cake set. "Daddy, can I have this?"

"Yes." He said. "Do you need more play food?"

"This is cake daddy. I have to have cake."

"Alright." He laughed.

She picked out some books and a wood donut set and they headed to another section. They walked down the Christmas decorate aisle that had some ceramic Santas on it and some other ceramics.

"Daddy, mommy would like this." Milly said picking up a ceramic house. She went to show her dad and bump the buggy which caused her to drop it. It broke with a loud crash.

"Milly." John said when he saw it.

"Sorry daddy. It's wasn't my fault. The buggy got in the way."

"Milly, please don't touch anything else that can break." John said as another associate came up. "I'm sorry. My daughter dropped it. I will gladly pay for it."

"No, that's okay. It happens." Lauren, an associate, said to him.

"Well, we are going to go." He took Milly's hand and they headed to another part of the store. John thought about putting her in the buggy but last time he did that in a store, she screamed and all the other people looked at him like he was killing her or something.

"There is my family." Holly said walking up. "Did you get everything?"

"I think so. Milly got a lot and broke two things." John replied to his wife.

"Okay, did you offer to pay for them?"

"Yes. They said it was fine. I don't have to."

"Okay, let's go down the dried flowers aisle." Holly said as they headed that way.

They were looking down the aisle and Holly was getting some dried flowers when they heard a loud crash. Holly and John turned and saw that Milly had broken a whole shelf full of glass vases.

"Amelia Rose Cena." Holly said to her daughter.

"I'm sorry. The shelf fell on its own." Milly said to them just as another associate walked up.

"Okay, she broke them and I will gladly pay for them." John said to him. He looked at the name tag and realized that he was the manager.

"That's not a problem." Lee, the manager, said.

"No, I will pay. This is the third thing she has broken in your store. I will pay for it."

"Alright. I will take the price sticker to the cashier."

"I think we should go before she breaks anything else." Holly said to him.

"I agree. Milly, let's go." John said taking her hand.

They headed to the cashier and checked out.

"Did you find everything today?" Pam, the cashier asked.

"Yes. We did. The manager brought a sticker up here for us to pay for something our daughter broke."

"Oh, yes." She rang it up. "Would you like to sign up for our email?"

"I already receive it." Holly replied handing her the coupon.

The cashier totaled it out and Holly swiped her credit card and signed the slip. She, John and Milly left the store and headed home.

Holly couldn't believe that Milly broke so much in Michaels. She knew Milly took after her with being clumsy and accident prone.

"I guess Milly takes after you." John said when he came into the kitchen.

"She does and you need to watch her better."

"I know."

Holly laughed and walked over to her husband. "I love that you're such a great dad to her and you love the time with her. But John, you have to set some rules."

"I know. It's just I don't get a lot of time with her and I like to spoil her."

"I know that and I don't have a problem with that. You know that. Just watch her better."

"Deal. I love you."

"I love you too."

John kissed his wife and headed back to the living room to watch some TV. Holly knew that John's time was limited with Milly but they had to have rules.

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