But Annie quit her job, and she wasthere all of the time. She talked about dresses to Junie. She talkedabout baseball to Billy.Remember all of those T... shows from the 60s where an outside womanraised the kids? Hazel? The Brady Bunch? It was like that. It didn'tmatter to the kids that she wore makeup. It didn't matter she was indresses.She was Mom 2.0. But her kids called her daddy. She insisted upon it.The extended family had been more of a test. Her mother could notunderstand why she had to be. ” He looked up at his daughter and smiled warmly. “Go back to sleep, Amanda. I got this.” While my wife was still smarting from the fact our son essentially chose his grandfather over her, it warmed her heart to see them together like this. “Thanks, daddy. I love you. I love you, James.” “We love you, too, mom,” Franklin told her. He looked back at James as Amanda turned to leave the room. “And you, young fella, need to close your eyes and go back to sleep. Grampa will keep all the bad. Subject C is a black male, also hatless. Identity unknown."Very large black male, Gary thought. He's probably security. Oh well, unless he's a serious woodsman, we probably don't need to worry about him. "You do the video, Bax," he reminded his friend. "I got individual shots." He snapped several frames of the party from inside their car. The tinted windows, he hoped, would keep them hidden from Eliza's group.Bax continued narrating the background, just in case their footage ended up on TMZ or. ’ ‘A boozy late night too, by the look of it. You look awful.’ God bless Alice for pointing out the obvious. ‘I had two glasses of champagne,’ I objected, picking my way around the racks of clothing and trying to ignore the blatantly curious but amused looks of my customers. She uttered a soft snort. ‘Of course you did. I think I need to have a word with that nephew of mine. That’s the second time in a week you’ve let him get you plastered. For someone who refuses to take painkillers, it’s.