and i'm not so good at sleeping . but then i anticipated not sleeping for a hundred years . do you want to come upstairs while i change charlie ?"
paige was a champion mother , she was also a champion housekeeper . her store cupboards were immaculate and none of her spice jars ever overran their sell -by dates . each shelf in the linen cupboard corresponded to a room in the house , and the clothes in her warrobe were color coded . you could hate paige , unless you loved her .
i trailed up behind her , noting that every shelf was dust free and the curtains in the children 's bedroom had strips of transparent cling film sewn along the bottom to preserve them . when i pased the spare room and glanced inside , though , i did a double take . it was awash in discarded clothes , books , a pile of papers on the floor .
" you're looking at the mess ? martin said the deal was that , if we had the third, which he didn't want , then he would grap a spare where he could live like a pig ."
"ah."
paige changed and washed charlie . for all her talk , she was clearly tired , so i gathered up the discarded baby things and wiped down the mat .
' you shouldn't do that , ' she said , " but i'm grateful ."
" have you any idea how i crave to do something ordinary ?" i chucked the cotton wool into the bin .
suddenly paige sat down on the nursing chair . her stomach bulge over her skirt , and her thighs had a flabby underdone look ." what next , minty ? what are you going to do ?"
" go back to work . keep the boys and myself ."
" you want to go back ."
paige was a champion mother , she was also a champion housekeeper . her store cupboards were immaculate and none of her spice jars ever overran their sell -by dates . each shelf in the linen cupboard corresponded to a room in the house , and the clothes in her warrobe were color coded . you could hate paige , unless you loved her .
i trailed up behind her , noting that every shelf was dust free and the curtains in the children 's bedroom had strips of transparent cling film sewn along the bottom to preserve them . when i pased the spare room and glanced inside , though , i did a double take . it was awash in discarded clothes , books , a pile of papers on the floor .
" you're looking at the mess ? martin said the deal was that , if we had the third, which he didn't want , then he would grap a spare where he could live like a pig ."
"ah."
paige changed and washed charlie . for all her talk , she was clearly tired , so i gathered up the discarded baby things and wiped down the mat .
' you shouldn't do that , ' she said , " but i'm grateful ."
" have you any idea how i crave to do something ordinary ?" i chucked the cotton wool into the bin .
suddenly paige sat down on the nursing chair . her stomach bulge over her skirt , and her thighs had a flabby underdone look ." what next , minty ? what are you going to do ?"
" go back to work . keep the boys and myself ."
" you want to go back ."
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