"Well," Angelica started, "I told you I could do it and I could give you references, didn’t I?"  She sat down and started eating her ice cream.

Bette smiled and shot Angelica a look of amazement.  Tina busted out laughing.  "Oh!  I almost forgot in all that’s happened this afternoon," Tina said excitedly.  "Angie, Mark, guess who’s coming for a visit?"

"Who?" they both asked excitedly.

"Your Auntie Kit.  She’s opening a new location down on Bourbon Street," Tina answered.

"Oh!  So, that’s why momma’s letter is getting to her so fast!  That sneaky witch.  I’m going to get her when she gets down here," Angelica laughed.

Tina and Bette laughed at Angelica’s response.  "Yeah, she’s got some explaining to do when she gets down here," Bette said as she looked into Tina’s eyes.

Angelica finished first and took her bowl into the kitchen.  Casey soon followed as did Mark.  "Someone needs to distract them so I can go light the candles," Angelica said.

"No problem!" Mark exclaimed as he ran off.  "Momma!  Mommy!  Come look what we did to my room!" he said proudly pulling them both by the hands.

Bette’s thoughts went 90 to nothing, ‘Oh no!  They’ve torn his room up!’  She jumped up as she grabbed Tina by the hand pulling her from the table, "C’mon T, let’s go see what they did to Mark’s room."  Chris and Michael followed close behind.

Angelica and Casey ran into the living room, lit all the candles, went back into the dining room and cleared the table off while they had the chance.  They walked back to Mark’s room, "Yeah.  We cleaned it up and moved stuff around so they would have room for all three to sleep anytime they wanted to.  Same with MY room," Angelica said proudly.  Bette and Tina walked to Angelica’s room and looked at it.

"Wow!  You guys did a lot while we were gone!" said Tina as they all walked out into the dining room to find the table cleaned off already.

"Well, we are going to go watch a movie in my room," said Mark as the boys all kissed their mothers goodnight and ran off to Mark’s room and shut the door.

"I’m going to finish cleaning the kitchen," Casey stated. 

"Yeah, I’ll help you and then we can go watch a movie in my room," Angelica added.  "Why don’t you two go in the living room where you can have some privacy to talk things over?"

Bette walked over to the doorway to the living room and stood there in awe.  She felt her eyes tearing up as she saw how romantic the room looked.

Tina just stood there looking at her two eldest children amazed at all the things that had transpired while they were gone.  She just knew they were up to something.

Bette turned to say something when Angelica and Casey came out of the kitchen and saw the look on Bette’s face.  They each kissed their mothers and said, "Goodnight."

Tina turned and looked at Bette with a concerned look.  ‘Bette was about to cry, but why?’ she thought.

"Um, Tina.  T, I think you better come look at this," Bette managed to get out.

Tina walked into the living room and looked around.  The whole room was lit with candles and on the coffee table was a video tape with a note stuck to it that read:

Momma and Mommy,

We love you very much!  Thank you for all that you have ever done for us!

Please, sit down, watch this video, and enjoy life in the present day.

Love Always,

Angie, Casey, Mark, Chris, and Michael

Without a thinking twice, Tina popped the tape in and pressed play.  They both sat down on the couch and the movie began.

TBC…..