" You think?" I KNOW," she grinned. "Mom relates that with me in college and out from underfoot, Dad has renewed interest."I laughed, then thought abo...t that. "When I'm your dad's age, I hope you still..." I will wear you out, boy," she said."I will spend the rest of my life hoping that you try," I laughed. Hand in hand we walked down the block to the restaurant, took our time with breakfast and coffee.This was a frequent haunt for me, pre-Johanna, so the sudden appearance of her on my arm,. "Did you know I'm a school teacher? Well, I am. You didn't really think I was a pirate, did you? Silly duffer! I'm going to take you up to the school where I used to teach, and get you enrolled to start there, to learn to read and write and add up numbers. All pretty hard stuff. I don't teach there anymore because I teach at the big kid's school, but I've still got lots of friends there."When I moved to the big school, some years ago, I met a girl there who was being treated very mean by her. “Are you ready for your punishment.” “Yes daddy.” Kim replies softly. SMACK, SMACK, SMACK, SMACK goes the paddle across her ass. Kim now knowing what she had done wrong starts to whimper a little. WACK, WACK, WACK, WACK again across her ass. “I’m sorry daddy, I’m sorry it will never happen again I promise.” Putting the paddle down Darnell stands Kim up spinning her around looking into her eyes. “I know it will never happen again cause today you will learn to listen to me when I tell you not to. My goodness, this Jennifer O’Malley is a real spitfire. She’ll make a great Realtor and Office Administrator, as long as I can keep focused so I don’t do anything stupid, which I’m thankful Caroline is here for, to keep me from doing.So, we all piled in to the car and left for our folk’s house, it only taking less than two hours. We loaded up the folk’s SUV with the cold and frozen foods, covering it really well and headed back to Stockton, getting there just after dark. We parked the SUV in.