: : Summary : : The Another story for my Adventures in parenting series. Rick is gone for a week, and it causes problems for Evelyn.
“Bye daddy.” Alex waved to his father as Rick boarded the plane to Egypt. It was three days until Alex’s second birthday, and Rick got an urgent message from Egypt to pick up an order to the museum that had been lost in the mail. He now worked with Evelyn at the museum, and was a frequent traveler since he’d accepted the job as Head Manager.
“Well, let’s go home and plan.” Evie smiled and carried Alex back to the car and they drove home. “Jonathan, we’re home.” Evelyn called into the somewhat empty house, getting no answer. She let Alex down to play and then saw his scribbled letter on the coffee table.
‘Gone for today, I’ll be home tomorrow late. Jonathan.’ Was all it read, and she sighed setting the letter down.
“Oh well.” She walked into the kitchen and scowled at the dirty dishes ominously staring back at her in the sink. She set to work on them and soon finished as she piled the last plate into the cupboard. “Well Alex, it looks like it’s just you and me.” She smiled as she walking into the living room where the little boy’s toys were neatly piled in the corner. His trucks and army men lay in a circle around him, as he lay in the middle sound asleep with a soldier and a truck in both hands. “Or not.” She laughed and took a picture of the scene, and lifted him into her arms.
After lying him down, she walked back downstairs and looked around. There was absolutely nothing to do. She made herself busy with picking up Alex’s toys, but that took only a matter of minutes. She stood looking at the clean room and felt lonely. She huffed and pulled her little boys toys out and poured them on the floor.
“If I’m going to be alone, might as well make it look like home.” She smiled and walked into the kitchen, warming up a pot of water for some tea.
Sitting in the kitchen alone, she drank her fill when the phone rang. “Hello?”
“Evie, its Amanda. Have you heard the news?” Amanda Smith. The most annoying young lady in the entire world, according to Evelyn, and the one whom also thought that the O’Connell family were her best friends.
“Amanda, so nice to hear from you, but I’m sort of busy right now. Can I call you…”
“It’s atrocious! The Museum has been thoroughly raided! Hundreds of Egyptian gold artifacts have been stolen. I thought you knew.” She all but yelled over the phone, making Evelyn groan.
“Phone the museum and tell them I’ll be there in a moment.” She ordered and briefly heard a muffled okay from the other line before hanging up. She ran up to Alex’s room and lifted him up causing him to wake.
“Daddy?” He asked, hoping they were going back to the hospital to get his father.
“No honey, we’re going to the museum, momma has some work to do.” She explained as he fell back to sleep against her shoulder. And that was how the week began.