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March Madness II ~ Being Green~ A Backstory Holiday Tale
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Angelica nodded.
“Well, right next to England is another island called Ireland. A lot of people who lived in IrelandAmerica. They had children and their children had children and now there are a lot of Irish people living in America.” decided to come to live in
Helena could tell that her explanation was taking too long for a four-year old. “Every year, the Irish have a party to celebrate that they are Irish.”
“Aunt Kit is having a party for Irish people?”
“Well, not just Irish people. A lot of other people like to go to the parties.”
“Am I going to the party?”
“No sweetie, the party’s for grownups.”
“Oh,” she pouted.
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Bette checked her watch as she was reaching for the door of The Planet and had been relieved to see that she wasn’t late. She and Tina were grateful that Kit could help when Angelica’s sitter was unavailable, and neither wanted to abuse her kindness.
Bette smiled when she spotted Angelica sitting at the counter as Kit hovered above her. She frowned at Kit, though, when she got close enough to see that her daughter was eating, knowing she would not want dinner later. “Hello, pumpkin.”
“Mama B!” Angelica reached for her mother, but stopped to first wipe her hands.
Bette hid her amusement at the display of good manners, making note to tell Tina later. While she hugged her daughter, Bette saw Kit smiling at them with a teary expression. Though Bette was annoyed that Kit had fed Angelica, she could tell from the way her sister was acting that something was up and her annoyance disappeared. When Angelica released her hold to return her attention to her hamburger, Bette furrowed her forehead and softly asked Kit, “Are you okay?”
Kit shook her head, “I’m fine.”
Bette looked at her skeptically.
“I’m fine,” Kit reassured.
Bette accepted the reassurance, knowing that she wasn’t going to get an explanation about the source of Kit’s odd mood. She reached her hand to touch Kit’s cheek, “OK.” Bette then smiled conspiratorially and reached to Angelica’s plate, grabbed a huge French fry, and ran it through the puddle of ketchup.
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Hi, dear sweet Spumoni! This was certainly a great treat on your behalf, before hitting the road, and go on vacation. Thanks for sharing with us the TRUE story of St. Patrick’s. We enjoyed it a LOT. We are in love with the wolfies, especially Angie’s cousins. They are SO cute! You left us with this HUGE grin on our faces. Thank you, again for this beautiful update. PPS Hugs & kisses on both your cheeks.- Lucero & Marsha (Proud Salsa Aunties to the ever loving JC and Eunichick)
Another great chapter! I loved the part where Angie was telling the pups that St. Partick’s Day was about fireworks and people hitting each other. Made me laugh!
another great update…Kit’s flashback almost made me cry, and Angie is so cute…i love this story and i’m glad you’re back
That was hilarious. Kids do have short attention spans (as well as some adults, ME for one). Kit’s flash back allowed the readers to see into Bette and Kit’s past and what made them who they are today.
Bette and Trouble’s relationship makes my heart melt.
Loved it! Vicious leprechauns and all. Also enjoyed Kit’s flashback. Thanks again!
i know i ought to read before i comment but i felt the need to mention the word “earworm” just because. THANKS for posting, btw. Don’t think anyone can ever get enough of your writing and humor, no matter what you say.
I laughed as soon as I saw your post. Here are so many wonderful stories on this side, some romantic, some tragic, some deeply sad, but this one is sooo …different. Even when the circumstances like in a fairytale the behaviour of Bette and Tina are believable. I hope to see more from you. :) Ps. I like the little pup Trouble. He is sweet.
Well, honestly, I don’t think it’s been established that Angie is Irish (although Jennifer Beals is), but her cousins are. But so what? Come March 17 everybody is. I’ll just note that pre-Patrick dogs and wolves appear to have been important clan totems in the Celtic system. So are they going to serve green beer to the wolves for St. Patrick’s? Dogs love beer, I’m sure wolves would, too. And they could all celebrate their heritage.
Wackadoodle?
i just read this “There were customers who did not realize that they made excuses to go to The Planet just so they could catch an installment of the Tina and Bette melodrama” and i had to comment really quick so i can continue reading…this phrase reminded me of me, my excuse to watch TLW that was unbearable sometimes, was to catch an installment of Tibette melodrama… :) brb
Great update… love the humour and loved Kit’s flashback. Great story you write so well and I can actually see Tina and Bette behaving just like that with their wolf relatives :)
I liked the story of St Patrick’s (I never knew it), and I liked the bit of backstory with Kit and Bette even more. I think Red is the least grateful houseguest ever. It’s maybe time for him to jog on. “Cranky” Hunter will have one less mouth to feed, at any rate. In-laws, eh? Tina’s father’s reaction to the story really is funny. Thanks for the post, Spumoni.
Love this story, Love Lit’Bit and so love Troubles. He loves Bette so much. I can see him in a chair with his head on Bettes lap. Maybe if the leave T&B house they can leave Him and tell everyone he is an Irishwolf Hound.