She felt the need to accomplish as much as possible in what time she had. Rising early, she showered and woke the girls for breakfast. To her delight, there was plenty of food in the kitchen. Normally on a Sunday, she would cook a big breakfast, eggs, home fries, toast or cinnamon rolls, hot chocolate. She smiled. There would be time for that next week. Now she had to grab some cereal and head to the nearest Lowe’s or Home Depot. There were at least a few items that she knew she needed immediately. Walking purposefully around the store, she picked up the spackle she would require to fix the holes, some sand paper, and the spackle spreader thingy. So what if she didn’t know every tool’s proper name. She had watched enough home improvement shows that she knew what she was doing. Finally, she and the girls were in the area that she knew would require the greatest amount of time: the paint department. Initially she had hoped to go with something that reminded her of the beachfront homes she had cleaned as a teenager in Wilmington, but she knew Gavin’s house was far too formal for her to simply wainscot the walls and paint a shade of pale sky blue.
