Theycould take their mom out of that environment. They are afraid to evensuggest that because they do not know if their mom is strong enough toleave t...at person.Once the topic changed, I told Dana we should get a house with amother-in-law apartment for visitors. It would give them and us more ofa sense of privacy; we have been talking about picking out a new home.Dana wants a place which is truly ours and I do also. Another reasonwould be his mom would have somewhere to go if she ever left. Brad was making comments like, "wow!, Brenda said this was romantic,but I never thought this romantic." A minute later our waitress cameand asked us if there was anything we wanted to drink. I ordered asling and Brad a beer, and she let us know that the buffet was serving.Before she left she asked me, "so how was the Wedding today?" Bradquickly responded, it was lovely, and gave me a light kiss on the cheekand said, "and my girl here was one of the prettiest Bridesmaid's." Iimmediately blushed. We have enough traumatized people, so I sent them home until the dance starts. We aren’t having a haunted house this year.”“What? How dumb are those boys?” Dahlia screams in frustration. She is disappointed, and it shows the rest of the time we are decorating.As we start to finish, Gun and Jane walk in, arms loaded with food from different places. I had them slip off and get each of my girls their favourite fast food. By now, everybody else helping with the decorations has headed home to eat. As the summer passed, I bounced from girl to girl like a wastrel. I even did the one thing that I have vowed never to do. One night after work, I had gone out for a drink with Heather and some of the people from the office and Amber came over. She was an acquaintance of Heather’s from the health club. Amber was twenty-five and built like a lingerie model. I got Heather to introduce us and asked her to dance. I monopolized her attention for the rest of the night and got her number. Soon she was.