finally at big bear Mountain

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Stef's: POV
Where finally at our destination
The kids and Lena are asleep
I parked the SUV. I wake everybody up, l know how Lena is when she is awakening out of her sleep. Lena can be cranky
Our kids on the other hand
Are something else, we all get out
Brandon helps me with the bags
While Lena goes and using the bathroom. It's 8:30 at night the sun is starting to set, Frankie is getting her suitcase out the trunk
I don't believe this child. She just rolled her eyes at me. Once we get everything inside our cabin
We have a four bedroom cottage
Upstairs downstairs, with a game room in the basement. When I go to the market I'm taking Francesca with me, she's not going to ruined this trip with her nasty attitude. The kids have their own rooms, l take Lena's and my luggage to the master bedroom on the second floor
While Brandon on the third wing
They have to share the bathroom
Ours is in the bedroom. We have a fireplace in the living room
When I go upstairs to the master suite, Lena is already in bed asleep. She wrote a shopping list of things she wants me to pick up at the store. I walk over to where she's lying at and give her a kiss on the lips, she tells me that she loves me. Lena told me to bring back some Aleve from the drug store. Cause she has a migraine headache, baby I'm taking Frankie with me. I say, good Lena replies, she's wearing my flannel pajamas. Cause it's a little chilly in cabin, l use the bathroom before l head out. Lena has two hundred dollars worth of food on this list, where only here for a week. I'm not going to worry about it cause, Lena's doing the majority of the cooking. I need to get some firewood, l head downstairs and see Brandon outside chopping the wood for me. How did he even know, l guess Brandon saw we were out of fire wood, that boy surprises sometimes. Brandon never gives us any trouble, it's just Frankie the one with the smart mouth
Lena says our daughter is like me even my mother said. I bring in logs inside the house and start the fire, while Francesca's is the den doing something. I told her to get her coat on, and come on
She puts her book down on the desk. She put her hair in a pony tail, cause it keeps getting in her face, that girls has hair down her back. We send Brandon to the barbershop and get his cut,
Brandon dresses like he's in prep school or something. Brandon wears khakis a polo shirt and a blazer. They do wear uniforms at school, but we still buy their clothes, their school colors are grey and burgundy. Frankie wears a skirt, polo shirt with a jacket. I walked outside and spot my daughter in the car on the cell phone, l don't know how she got my car keys. Let me calm down, l pray we have a pleasant ride to the store. The grocery store is two miles away, Frankie can you please talk to me love
She tells whoever she's talking she'll call them back. Francesca gives me her undivided attention
Mommy tells me your mad, at me. Can you look at me please
She shrugs her shoulders. Like
I'm supposed to read her mind
I can't help you if l don't what's wrong, for the next five minutes
There's total silence. I continue to drive and focus on the highway
Why do you always have to work all the time? We use go to the basketball games together,
It's like your never around anymore. Frankie says
Baby l have to work so we can have a roof over our heads
Stef said, l see the tears running down her cheek. Mama is always around for us, she takes us places
While your stuck at the hospital
Now Francesca drags Lena into this, being a doctor has always been my dream. And I want to help people, Stef tells her daughter and hopes she understands. Your job is to be our mother she States, your right sweetheart. I never fully realized that you were hurting,  I'll try to get my hours change. I can't make no promises love Stef replied, we pulled up. To the 24 hour Walmart supercenter,
First to get the basic stuff
Frankie grabs a shopping cart
Lena has water, fruit, coffee, tea, sugar, pancake mix, salad  dressing, cucumbers, creamer,
Salad mix, syrup oatmeal, olive oil. Orange Juice, wine, cranberry juice, turkey bacon. We head to. The pharmacy section to get the Aleve, deodorant, soap, toothpaste, mouth wash, Cascade for the dishwasher, cereal, yogurt, almond milk, strawberries, bananas, a bag of ice, body wash, red potatoes, spaghetti sauce, linguine noodles
Salmon, butter and 2%milk
Lena's favorite ice cream, bagels, cream cheese, we already have a blender. Massaging oil, I don't believe Lena put this on here
While l have Frankie with me
A couple cans of Salmon in the can, green peppers, onions, lemon juice, bread crumbs, vegetables, carrots, broccoli brussel sprouts, asparagus zucchini, squash, corn of the cob
Lena prefers fresh veggies. Gatorade, Since soda is forbidden in the house. I think that's it
We head to the checkout line
Frankie helps me put the groceries on the counter, Lena uses coupons. I have a few in the pouches she gave me before l left
Francesca is shaking her head cause She knows how Lena is
Lena is organized. When it comes everything, she doesn't like nothing out order. Lena has the seasoning in alphabetical order
I believe my wife has OCD,
She even wrote down a itinerary for our vacation. Lena locked in her phone, she does laundry only Saturday's. Lena cooks dinner on Sunday for the whole week, cause she has to work late.
So the kids won't be hungry when they get home from school,
My mother in law use to be like that. I know Lena misses her mother even though, she doesn't say it, she doesn't think l know she cries at night. Stuart still travels all over the world, Lena wants him to move closer to us
He says he's fine in the house
Him and dana use to share, they have been married for forty- seven years.

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