Chapter 45

Diamond’s POV

“Mommy can we have pizza for lunch in school?”

I dropped the vegetable dressing fork I was holding and picked up Hayden. I set him on the kitchen counter and cupped his face.

“You boys need to eat healthy okay. I’ll tell you what, sometime this week maybe we can have an ice cream sundae, what do you say?”

“Yayy!!”, he jumped down from the counter and ran into their room to tell his brothers.

“Take it easy, Hayden. And you boys should get dressed okay, I’ll take a look at your backpack when I’m done.”

I was really busy now. Even before Karl, at least I had Rebecca and Aaron before he died. But now it was just me. I had to wake early, cook their lunch and get them ready for school while I prepared for a day at the hospital too.

And of course after that I would pick them too. Thankfully, there had been no course to stay extra hours at the hospital recently. I thought about contacting Karl’s friend who helped us watch after the kids when we had dinner together but I