“On the way home she would have made a pit stop at Dairy Queen so we couldn’t say she hadn’t fed us and before we went inside to our parents she would have told us we’d been a terrific help, and although we’d probably spent most of the day accruing minor injuries and misplacing key items, we would have felt this to be true.” ChildrenHelpingKidsVisitingRelativesVisits Book:Idle Grounds Source: Idle Grounds
“It was interesting in that we were excluded entirely but after a while we got restless and went inside, where there were some more of us sitting on the steps that went up to the bathroom and bedrooms and this lot was talking among themselves like birds before they fly off in one jaggy but coordinated movement. There were ten of us cousins give or take and the tallest and also the oldest one was Travis. He was twelve. He looked at us with his long, swinging jaw, trying to weigh us up. Time had passed since the last time we’d all been together, his face said, but blood was blood.” ChildrenKidsRelationshipsFamilyRelativesCousinsReunionsFamily Reunions Book:Idle Grounds Source: Idle Grounds