Thursday, March 10, 2011

February

February 2043 - Patrick Seiff is 29, Clara Seiff is 24, Molly is six months (Viola Cameron is 51, Alison Cameron is 17, Bella Cameron is 18 months).

Clara and Alison try to get their daughters together at least once a month. Since Clara is seven years older than her baby sister, they were never close when they were growing up, but they've gotten closer over the last year, and they want their daughters to be close.

Viola usually comes too. She loves having a new granddaughter, and she tries to come over to see Molly whenever she can. Plus having her there gives Clara and Alison time to talk.

"Molly is getting so big," Alison says.

"So is Bella. She's almost started walking."

The girls are still too little to really play together. Bella is interested in her little cousin, but mostly she just wants her mom and grandmother to play with her.

When the girls get hungry, Alison and Clara get them some nice cold bottles of milk.

"They grow up fast," says Alison. "I remember when Bella was that little."

"I remember when you were that little," says Clara.

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Clara has been taking a lighter work load to spend time with Molly. Patrick has a busy teaching load this semester, so a lot of the time it's just the two of them.

She tries fixing the dishwasher one night while he's grading papers at the office but ends up getting a nasty shock.

Luckily Patrick is able to fix it that weekend.

With a six-month-old baby, they don't have much time alone together. But on Valentine's Day they manage to steal a few minutes that night to dance in the upstairs hallway.

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