"Want some breakfast?" Jessica asked."Sure, thanks." I replied.Jessica opened the door and stepped into our living room.I heard her say from the other...room, "Oh shit! Sorry!" She forgot that my buddy, Todd, was sleeping in the other room."No worries, Jessica." Todd said, "I didn't see anything."Jessica quickly reentered the bedroom and shut the door. She looked at me and asked me, "Why didn't you say anything?" Sorry, baby. I forgot we had company." I said."I'm so embarrassed!" Jessica said,. However, despite the fact that off days at home were rare during the season, the Warrens' picnic was evidently always well-attended. After all, it catered to the married players' wives and children, and if a player's wife and kid wanted to attend, well, guess what? The player wanted to attend, too.I had heard all about the picnic tradition, but I wasn't certain it was something in which I, a single guy, wanted to participate. So when Maria asked, I told her as much: "I hear your parents' annual. " A little," she said with a shy smile, finally opening beautiful blue eyes. "I know about sex, but dad won't even let me date yet, so I don't have any, um, experience." You've never even danced with a boy?" Cain asked."Yeah, a few times," she said, smiling shyly again."And did they respond...um...like I am?" Cain asked."Yeah," she giggled and put her head down on his shoulder again."Are you sure that you're okay?" Ellie asked, raising her head."Very much so," he said.She laughed again,. You need to make some priorities. You can’t do all this stuff either. You have to tell the kids what you can do and then stick to it! Unless you want to hire a nanny...”“NO!”“ ... then you need to get serious about your schedule. You can’t keep up like this. You’ll kill yourself!”As I expected, Marilyn protested that it really wasn’t that bad, that she could do everything she needed to. It was an argument we had had before, both in this life and in my last. She refused to believe she couldn’t.