Ding dong!

The doorbell rang unexpectedly for the first time on Sunday.

From our vantage in the kitchen, the husband and I could see two short-haired shadows on the other side of the door. We shouted for our son to come upstairs as we said hello and breathed an inner sigh of relief that the mountain had come to Mohammed. So far, we’d seen few children in the neighborhood, but suspected – rightly as was now evident – that they were playing hide and seek with us.

“Hello, how are you?” we greet two young boys, our first official visitors. “Seely will be here in a sec…”

(let’s play the game where I call my kids Seely and Temperance. Got the 5th season of Bones on the brain.)

As they finish removing their bicycle helmets – what good boys! – they manage to give me the shock of my life…

“We were looking for Temperance.”

ps. It all ended well in a soccer game at the local park. Seely went with.

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