I was walking around Ikea with the girls and my mom, looking for a few more things for Brian’s house. Since I was painting the bathroom I had to buy new towels and rugs for it. Brian and the guys took Madelyn and Cameron while we went shopping, saying they could handle it. “Go have a good time baby, I know how to change her diaper.” he said, “Yeah, how hard can it be to take care of a baby.” Jimmy shrugged while holding Madi. We were all wondering how it was going, but since I wasn’t allowed to call and check on them I just had to wait until I got home. “Okay,” Val said, clapping her hands, “What colors are we getting for towels?” “Well, the walls are gray with a dark red accent,” I started, “maybe black? And we can see if there are any pictures that we like to hang on the accent wall.” We walked toward the linens, and I grabbed a ton of fluffy black towels. Bath towels, hand towels, rugs, anything we needed for the bathroom. I picked up a pewter colored soap pump, toothbrush holder, and trash can. We also found a fancy looking dark gray scale. “Okay, I know it’s bad to have a scale, but I love this and I’m getting it.” I said, throwing it into the cart. I grabbed a few new towel hooks that would match the rest of the décor and we headed toward the photos. “Oh my gosh. B, you have to do this and hang it in your bedroom or living room.” Lacey said, pointing to a black and white picture of a woman. She was sitting down naked, back facing the camera, with a guitar standing up against her, her hands on the neck of the guitar. “Oh man, I love this.” I said in awe. “I could take the picture, and have someone paint it for Bri, and give it to him for Valentine’s day.” I said excitedly. “That’s a great idea. He would totally love it, and probably hang it over the mantle” Gena laughed. We looked around for a picture for the bathroom, and I found one that I loved. It was a black and white photo of the Eiffel Tower, as if you were looking up at it from the bottom. “Oh, that’s beautiful. That will look great in the bathroom.” Val said I nodded in agreement, and put the picture into the cart. “Okay,” I sighed, “I think we have everything we were looking for, you guys hungry?” “I’m starved, I didn’t eat much for breakfast this morning” my mom said while looking at a few lamps. “Me too, let’s go grab some soup and salad.” Leana said, leading us toward the checkout. I paid for all of my things, and we headed out to Val’s SUV. “Okay, let’s go eat.” she said, driving away from Ikea and toward the Olive Garden.

Lunch was full of random conversation with my mom, mostly about Georgia and my childhood. The girls laughed hysterically when Mom told them all about me eating rat poison when I was two. “She seriously ate it, and didn’t die?” Leana asked, laughing hysterically, “No she didn’t! She didn’t even need her stomach pumped out.” Mom explained, “my sister was watching her while I was at work, and she fell asleep. Brook got into the rat poison just as I was walking through the door. I rushed her to the doctor, and he said she was fine, she didn’t eat enough to harm herself.” “Jeeze. Now I see where Cam gets his curiosity from.” Gena said laughing. “Ha ha laugh it up girls.” I said, rolling my eyes and laughing with them. We finished our lunch and stopped by Brian’s house, so I could drop the Ikea finds off and pick up the kids. “Bri? We’re back.” I called, walking in the house. “We’re in Madi’s room babe.” he called back, and I walked upstairs to figure out which room he had given to Madelyn. I walked into the room and started laughing hysterically. Brian, Jimmy, and Johnny were covered in paint. “Holy shit, what happened to you guys?” I said laughing, walking over to kiss Brian. “Man. Jimmy did it. He splattered everyone with paint.” Johnny said, crossing his arms. “Aw guys, this looks great. We owe you.” I said, giving Johnny a one-armed hug. “Just cook us dinner, we’ll accept that.” Matt joked, walking into the room. “Cameron’s room is finished, if you want to check it out.” “Really? Already? Thanks!” I said excitedly, and walked across the hall to Cam’s room. It looked awesome, I couldn’t wait until his furniture arrived so I could decorate it. “Oh man, this looks awesome.” I said, bouncing on my heels. “You excited babe?” Brian asked, wrapping his arms around my waist and placing his chin on my shoulder. “I am, I can’t wait to see what it looks like when it’s finished. Speaking of the kids, where are they?” “They’re in the bed, sleeping. Madi was exhausted and Cam wanted to watch cartoons. I went in to check on them and they were both knocked out. Just leave them be babe.” “Okay, I’ll just start painting the bathroom. Give me some sweats boyfriend.” I said, kissing his nose. We walked into his room and he handed me an old pair of gray sweat pants and a faded Kiss tshirt. I kissed his cheek and walked into the bathroom to change out of my good clothes. Once I was finished I walked into the kitchen where all the paint was, noticing my mom had fallen asleep on Brian‘s couch. I smiled and shook my head. “I’m going to get started on the bathroom, you guys can help if you want.” I said to the girls, who all jumped up at once to help. We each grabbed a paint brush or roller and got to work. We finished relatively quickly, since all five of us were working. “Oh man, this looks awesome. I can’t wait to see the finished product.” Lacey said. I nodded in agreement and went to find Brian. When I noticed he wasn’t in Madi’s room painting I decided to go check on the kids, where I found Brian, soothing Madelyn back to sleep, with Cam’s head resting on his thigh. “Hey you,” I said softly, walking into the room. “Hey mama. I’m watching cartoons with Brian.” Cameron said, not even bothering to get up. “I see that baby, did you have a good nap?” I asked him, leaning down to kiss his cheek. “Yeah, I slept with Madi. She doesn’t like to cuddle.” he said with a shrug, making me laugh. “That’s okay baby, you don’t like to cuddle either.” “Look baby girl, your mama is home.” Brian said quietly to Madi, whose eyes were wide and searching. “Hey my girl,” I smiled sweetly at her, seeing her toothless grin appear on her face, “were you good for the boys?” “She was, she slept pretty much the entire time, unless she was hungry.” Brian explained, kissing her chubby face. “She won’t be hungry for a few more hours either.” “Oh good, come here my little peanut, I missed you.” I said, taking her out of Brian’s arms and covering her face with sloppy kisses. “We’re going to head back to my place soon, so I can start packing.” I told Brian. “Okay, well then we’ll come help you. The rooms are all finished. We’re just waiting on the furniture. We can probably finish packing your house up tonight with all of us doing it, and you guys can just crash here. We’ve got plenty of room.” He suggested. “Okay, that sounds good. I’ll bring Madi’s little pack and play over, and Cam can sleep with Mom, he’s been sneaking into her room at night anyway.” I said with a chuckle. We got up and walked downstairs, where everyone had congregated and was talking to my mom, who was repeating the rat poison story for the guys. “Seriously mom? You just told that story at lunch.” I sighed, sitting down in my favorite recliner of Brian’s. “I know I did, but Gena asked me to tell the boys, I couldn’t say no.” mom grinned evilly while the guys laughed. “No seriously B, I knew you were nuts for a reason.” Jimmy said, laughing loudly. “JimBones, you don’t have much room to talk bub.” I said, nudging him with my foot, “you’re crazier than anyone in this room, aside from Gena.” “Hey! I heard that!” Gena shouted, causing everyone to laugh. “It’s okay G, we love you just the way you are.” Zack said, kissing her temple. “Okay guys, let’s head over to Brook’s house so we can get her shit packed up.” Brian said, standing up. “Oh no Bri, that’s a bad word.” Cam said, crossing his arms. “Mama. Bri said a bad word, he needs a spanking.” The entire room burst into hysterical laughter. Matt and Johnny had tears rolling down their faces, and Brian was as red as a tomato. “Uh, okay, time to go.” I stuttered, buckling Madi in her carseat. We all walked out the door and got into our respective cars, the guys still laughing at Cameron’s antics. Brian got into the driver’s seat of my car, and we headed toward my house to pack up my things.

Once we got to my house everyone paired off and got to work. There was a couple in each room of the house: Brian and I were packing up my room, Jimmy and Leana were packing Cameron’s room, Lacey and Johnny were in the living room, my mom took the kitchen, Zack and Gena were in Madelyn’s room, and Val and Matt were packing up the guest room and extra bathroom. We packed everything in less than two hours. Since the furniture would get to Brian’s tomorrow, I decided to just pack a few suitcases full of our clothes and pack the rest up in bags to take to Brian’s. Once we were finished we all decided to go out to dinner. We decided to go to Wings N Things, since all the guys wanted beer and hot wings. We enjoyed our dinner, laughing and joking with each other. My mom sat next to me with the biggest smile on her face. “Okay, I have to get this out.” she started, making everyone quiet down. “I just want to thank you all so much, for accepting my daughter and grandkids. They’re so very important to me, and it means the world to me that you all love them. I’ve grown to love all of you and I’ll miss you terribly when I go home. Thank ya’ll so much for your hospitality and acceptance.” she said, wiping a tear from her eye. “Oh mama, don’t cry.” I said, hugging her to me. “You’re more than welcome to come back whenever you want. You always have a room at our place.” Brian said, reaching behind me to put a hand on her shoulder. “Yeah Mrs. C. We love you!” Jimmy said excitedly, while the others nodded their heads. “We’ll come visit you soon, we promise.” Matt said with a grin, showing his dimples. “Okay, enough of all this mushy stuff, let’s get back to picking on Johnny” Mom said, causing the table to erupt into laughter “Aw come on Mrs. Cathy! I helped you finish packing the kitchen!” Johnny pouted. “You did dear, but it doesn’t take away from your shortness.” she joked, patting his hand. “That’s awesome, she’s my favorite Tiny mom.” Jimmy said with a laugh. We finished our dinner and headed to our respective homes, everyone tired from the painting and packing we did today. “Good grief, I’m exhausted.” I sighed, flopping on the couch. Both the kids were sleeping, and my mom had gone to bed early as well, saying she wanted to squeeze in all the time with Cameron that she could. “I think I’m going to take a shower before bed, I got all sweaty packing.” I told Brian, standing up to kiss his cheek. “Okay baby girl, I’m gonna take the dogs out to use the bathroom.” I walked upstairs to Brian’s room -- well now I guess it’s our room -- and headed straight to the bathroom. I stripped down and turned the shower on, stepping into the steaming hot water. I breathed a sigh of relief, letting the water wash over all the knots in my neck and shoulders. My head snapped up when I heard the bathroom door open, seeing Brian’s silhouette through the frosted glass. “What are you doing babe?” I asked when I noticed him pulling his shirt over his head. “Saving water.” he simply said before he opened the shower door. He walked towards me and simply wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me close. I wrapped my arms around his middle and sighed contentedly, laying my head on his chest. We stood there for a few minutes, before he reached behind me and grabbed my shampoo. He washed and conditioned my hair, then grabbed my sponge, squirting shower gel on it. He lathered my body up with soap suds slowly and gently, then pushed me back under the spray of water to rinse. I repeated the actions on him, and once he was finished rinsing he turned off the water and grabbed two towels. He wrapped the first one around my shoulders, before drying himself off. I stood there smirking at him, knowing exactly what he was doing. He wrapped his towel around his waist, then grabbed the towel off my shoulders, drying my hair and arms off. I raised my arms and he wrapped the towel around me, then pressed his lips to mine in a hungry kiss. He lifted me into his arms and carried me to bed, where we spent the rest of the night making love.

Notes

I'm SO sorry it took me so long to update! I've been super busy looking for a job, but here's a super long chapter to make up for it :]