Meme walked into the house at five-thirty pm. The aroma of dinner filled the house. She walked into the kitchen and saw Melvin singing, dancing, and cooking dinner with Lily. Lily turned around and ran to her mom smiling and yelling at her mommy. Meme picked her up and kissed her on the cheek.

“Mommy how was your first day,” Lily asked.

Melvin walked over as I was putting Lily down. He kissed me before I answered Lily.

“It was a long, but good day,” I replied.

Melvin walked back over to the stove where the food was still cooking. As I took a seat at the kitchen table, I placed my arms on the table and laid my head down.

“Looks like cleaning that office kicked your butt,” he said jokingly. “Why don’t you go take a shower, I am almost done with the food.”

“Oh, it did, but you know what I cannot wait to go back tomorrow. Everything is cleaned and I got rid of the “Happy” sofa,” I said.

“Happy sofa,” Lily questioned with her head tilted.

I pulled out my phone and showed her the picture on the sofa.

“See happy sofa,” I said with a laugh

She giggled. I looked back at Melvin who was smiling at us.

“I can now put my office together tomorrow,” I said with a smile. “Do you have to go to work early tomorrow,” I questioned.

“No, I do not have to go in tomorrow. I am going to be working from home,” he stated. “Why what’s up love?”

“Nothing I just want to go to the school early, so I can put my office together before school starts,” I replied as I was getting up from the chair.

“That is fine, I will take her to school tomorrow,” he said. “You about to get in the shower?”

“Yes, I am,” I said walking past. As she reached the end of the kitchen island, he smacked her butt.

“That’s gross,” Jr said as he came strolling in shaking his head. He had been in his room doing homework when she got home.

I laughed and started walking towards the stairs. I can hear them talking and laughing back in the kitchen. Looked back at the sound of their voices and exhaustedly walked upstairs to take a shower.

Turned the water off and reached for the shower door when I heard a little knock on the door.

“Yes,” I yelled at the door.

A little voice yelled back, “Daddy said it is time for dinner, mommy.”

“Okay I will be there in a minute,” I replied.

“Okay,” she yelled and ran off.

I put lotion on and walked over to my closet and got in the dresser. I pulled out my black silk pajama shorts, and lacey royal blue spaghetti striped shirt, with the matching silk black button-up shirt to go over. Grabbed the royal blue teddy bear slippers. As I headed downstairs, I could still hear talking and laughing.

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Everyone was sitting at the table waiting for her to come and sit down, so they could say grace and eat. I sat down and Melvin said grace. After grace, we started putting food on our plates. While I was helping Lily with her plate, I asked Jr how his day was.

“It was alright,” he answered.” I got an A on my Geometry quiz. Also, I have a game next Friday.”

“We will be there,” I said with a smile.

We finished dinner and all went into the family room.

“So what movie are we going to watch,” Melvin asked.

“Moana,” Lily yelled with a giggle.

“No, we watched that last family movie night Lil,” said Jr.

“Fine,” she said and folded her arms.

“Don’t be like that Lil,” Melvin said. “Why don’t we watch Slumberland? It came out last year and it is on our list.”

“I say yes,” I replied.

The kids agreed and Melvin turned on the movie then paused it. I walked into the kitchen and Melvin followed behind.

“Oh, I got dessert love,” he said behind me.

“Ok babe,” I said. “I am going to go get the blankets.”

“No mommy we are grabbing them,” yelled Lily.

“Ok, so do you want me to help you with dessert,” I asked Melvin.

He came over to me and pulled me back into the family room. Then he went behind me, grabbed my waist and walked me to the couch.

“You can help by sitting right here and relaxe,” he said. He turned me around and gave me a kiss.

I sat down on the couch, and he disappeared back into the kitchen. Lily came running into the room with her Moana blanket and flopped on the couch. Jr came walking in with two blankets.

“Here mom,” he said. Handing me a soft fuzzy big black blanket.

“Thank you, Jr,” I said grabbing the blanket.

“Jr get the dinner trays and then come help me,” Melvin yelled

“Okay,” he yelled back to his dad and then looked down at me. “You are welcome mom,” he said and then walked away.

Jr grabbed them, put them out in front of where we were sitting, and went into the kitchen. A few minutes later the boy came in with dessert. In their hands, they each have two cups with root beer floats in them. They sat them on the tables and went back into the kitchen. They then came back with two medium-sized bowls of popcorn with cheddar cheese seasoning, kettle corn seasoning, and small containers of small candies for Lily and Jr. Lily smiled big.

“Thank you, daddy and Jr,” she said

“You're welcome,” both said.

“Thank you, Jr,” I said with a smile.

Melvin came over and sat down next to me. He grabbed some of the blanket and scooted next to me.

“Thank you too,” I said and gave him a kiss.

“Ewwww,” Lily said with a gross look on her face.

We both laughed and Melvin pushed play on the movie. When the movie ended, we all helped put everything up and I put the dishes in the dishwasher. After everything was cleaned up Melvin put Lily in her bed and read her a story.

After putting the last bit of dishes in the dishwasher I went into Jr’s room. He was at his desk with the desk light on. Books in front of him and papers. I walked over to him and placed my hand on his shoulder.

“You're not going to bed yet,” I asked him.

“No, I am going to study a little bit longer I have a test in English tomorrow,” he said.

“Okay, but don’t stay up late,” I said. Kissed him on the head and then started walking towards the door. I paused and said, “Oh, and tell Leslie I said hi and you can’t be up all night.”

He smiled and nodded. I turned back around and headed toward the door.

“Goodnight,” I said shutting the door behind me.

“Goodnight,” he shouted.

I headed upstairs to Lily’s room where Melvin was just finishing the bedtime story. I walked over and sat at the edge of the bed until he was done. Walked over to the head of the bed and kissed her cheek.

“Good night beautiful,” I said.

“Good night baby girl,” Melvin said.

“Good night mommy,” she replied to the both of us.

We walked out of her room and down the long hallway to our room. As we reached the room, I started taking off the button-up shirt and placed it on the ottoman in front of the bed. Then we both walked into the bathroom to brush our teeth and clean our faces. Melvin walked out of the bathroom first and lay in bed. After I was done with my nightly face routine I walked over to my side of the bed. Melvin held the blanket up for me to get under. As soon as I got under the cover, he scooted close to me and kissed my neck.

“Goodnight love,” he said as he held me.

“Goodnight, babe,” I said.