Walk into home and have someone ready to lick your shoes clean!!! I could get used to that.”“Ma’am, it will be an honour for me to do it. I will...lick you shoes clean every time you come into the house.” Then I worshipfully started kissing her shoe soles.“Ma’am, I feel very, very lucky.”She just laughed. “Yes sweetie, you are a very lucky mom.” as she wiped her shoe soles dry on my cheeks. Oh that comes naturally to her - to wipe her shoe soles dry on my cheeks after I had licked them clean with. Should she question Nick about the past? Should she temporarily ignore it concentrate on interesting him in a future? Hearing soft footsteps, Jess opened her eyes in time to see her mother enter the kitchen. Leslie stopped short, obviously surprised to see Jess already up and dressed. ‘Jess! What are you doing up so early? I expected you to sleep in this morning.’ Jess smiled. ‘Morning, Mom. I guess it’s all this fresh air. I slept like a baby. What about you? Did you sleep well?’ Leslie nodded. The units could be climbed on both sides. That made for four different levels of expertise.They came with a complete set of fall harnesses for use with 50 pound kids to 300 pound football players, along with helmets and a set of mats to cover the floor completely around it.The agency guys had been talking about modifications they could add to it for use after midnight to help with wall scaling and rappelling training on some of their missions. They had taken one of the sale pamphlets with them. Then we had another family meeting; Amanda and Daddy couldn’t make it work and were divorcing as friends. We kept in touch, she even came back to spend Christmas with us the first couple of years before she remarried.I won a scholarship to State; it wasn’t all that much of a wrench because my boyfriend Ryan and several of my girlfriends were also headed there. Ellie and I skyped several times a week, she was just starting high school. She and Daddy had taken up geo-caching as a hobby – they.