Inside the house Grandma fussed over the children, got them all to sit on the couch and gave them gifts one by one. Adriana was first. She received a beautiful, dyed peacock egg that grandma found in a junk shop and she squeaked "o.m.g!". Ana got a bright watercolor painting of three wild lion cubs happily playing in the tall grass. Noah got a small pillow with stitches forming a dog and he got some exotic sweets. Last of all Coco got a blue floaty dress that she would wear on her wedding day because Grandma had had it on her own.
The next business was wedding outfits. Adriana and Ana got to be flower girls and they were going to wear short blue dresses and small forget-me-not and periwinkle flower crowns in their hair. The flowers were a bright, friendly blue, the kind that reminds you of the sea. Noah on the other hand when he was asked to be in the procession shook his head, shrieked "Eeeeew no!" and stuffed his head in pillows till Coco said he didn't have to be.
After measuring, poking in places and sewing grandma left the room looking satisfied, like she had just finished a very good day at work. Coco smiled a small relieved smile and mouthed "thank you" to grandma as she left the room.
A few minutes later she came back out with a mop, a sponge, a broom and a guilty smile on her face. "Cleaning time!" she tried to say with a smile on her face. The children rolled their eyes, buried their face in their hands and started.
Late that evening when the kids were slumped on the couch watching t.v, grandma was whizzing up a passion fruit sorbet in the kitchen and every surface of the house was clean there was a ring on the phone. It was the restaurant. They had called to say that grandma would come and do her order of snacks and meals tomorrow so that they could get it to her before Sunday (the day of the wedding) which was three days away on time.
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