“Mom!” I scold her quick judgment.
“I’m sorry, but this is going to take me a while to process. Where does she live? Is she moving here? It’s obvious the poor girl doesn’t know anything about our lifestyle and has a lot of learnin’ to do. And that’s gonna need to change real quick. You know my motto, son: can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”
Good lord. If this is how fast she’s blurting words out, I can’t imagine how fast her mind is racing.
“Well first, yes, River is moving here from Wisconsin because I want to take responsibility for my baby, and we’re going to be together. I know this is out of your traditional values, but what’s done is done. You can be on board with it or not, but this is happening, and there’s nothing you or anyone else can do about it but accept it.” I
