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SCP Contemporary Blog hop

5/18/2013

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            Have you ever had a meltdown?  Of course you have.  We all have them.  Who was there to bring you back to earth?  Was it your mom?  A babysitter?  A best friend?  Your partner?  We all have them and they are usually over something that seemed important at the time.  I wonder what Claire would think as she got older about this little meltdown from The Guardian’s Heart…mind you she is only two and half.

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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. -Oprah Winfrey

“I wanna my mama,” Claire screamed on the playground as she held her bloodied knee.

“Claire, it’ll be okay. Just let me look at it,” Mandy said, trying to calm down Claire’s tantrum. She’d been running across the playground in the back of the daycare when she fell down.

“Wants mama Bee Ms. Mand,” Claire pleaded.

Normally the staff would try to calm the child down themselves. Even little Lukey knew he wouldn’t get Mary Beth if he cried for her. To him all of the owners might as well be his mother. But Mandy was shocked. Initially she thought Claire was asking for her real mom, not Gabbie.

Gabbie was rocking a baby in the infant room while the devastated Claire sat sobbing in the lobby. Mandy came in and shook her head at Gabbie.

“What?”

“Claire wants her mother,” Mandy said with her hands on her hips.

“Oh, well…” Gabbie always got a pain her chest when any of the Thomases talked about their parents. It was still so fresh.

“Bee, her mother Bee.”

“She called me her mother?” Gabbie said, a little set back.

Claire had said some things over the past few weeks that she was a good mama, but to say she was her mama…Gabbie stood up and put the now sleeping Jane in one of the cribs.

In the lobby, Claire sat on the bench by a set of cubbies with her injured leg elevated.

“Mama, I’s toreded my preddies,” Claire said as her bottom lip trembled.

“I see that,” Gabbie said, sitting on her knees in front of Claire and opening the first aid kit Mandy had left on the bench.

“My preddies no more,” Claire cried as Gabbie put on latex free gloves and started to clean Claire’s injured knee.

The fact she’d hurt herself was not the reason Claire was crying. She had torn her tights or “pretties” as she liked to call them. Claire cherished every one of her pretties. Gabbie had learned Claire was very much a girl, something Gabbie never was. Gabbie never cared about dresses or sparkly shoes when she was growing up, but to Claire they were a necessity.

As Gabbie pulled down Claire’s soft pink tights with the lacy backs, Claire looked as if she was being skinned alive. Whatever pain she felt from her scraped knee could have been as great as an amputation, she’d never acknowledge it compared to losing a set a tights to a hole in the knee.

“Mama inks my bess,” Claire sobbed as if she was just shot through the heart with an arrow.

“You still have your white and your blue and your orange pretties and don’t forget your ones with the little flowers on them.”

“I’s never gets better preddies…” she declared with all the melodrama befitting Scarlett O’Hara declaring her love for Tara.

“These pretties were almost too small for you, you’ve been growing so much. How about this?” Gabbie suggested, trying to hold back from laughing in the poor child’s face. To Claire this was life or death. “Your daddy and I will pick you up a new pair on the way home and maybe some big girl underwear since you’ve been doing so good on the potty. These pretties were made for little girls that wear diapers.”

Claire’s eyes perked up. She started to smile, but only briefly, holding the now-torn tights to her heart as she stood up and stuck her chest out.

“Dees was bestest preddies ever,” one little crystal tear fell from her dark mahogany left eye, catching on her soft lash then flowing down her chubby cheek.

Gabbie gave Claire a hug to hide the fact she was about to piss her pants from laughing. She released Claire, who returned to the toddler room still clutching her torn tights and Gabbie fell back on the floor and covered her face with her hand so she could laugh without hurting any feelings.

“Is it safe now,” Mandy said holding her gut as she gasped for air. “I lost it when…when she said…” Mandy couldn’t hold in her laughter. “I’s never gets better pretties. Did you see her lip quivering?”

“She’s in pain right now,” Gabbie said, trying to be serious. Instead, she ended up rolling on her stomach. “My daughter is such a drama queen.”

“Your what?” Mandy said, catching her breath. “Gabbie, she’s not your daughter.”

“I just called her my daughter,” Gabbie sat up and put her head in her hands. What was she thinking?

“Yeah, you and Case have been together a month and you’re already claiming children that aren’t even his as yours.”


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Case Thomas is always in control whether its on the basketball court, the lab where he works, or in his love life. He thinks he has everything all figured out. All that changes when his parents pass away during his last year of college and Case is thrown into fatherhood when he becomes temporary guardian to two adorable twin toddlers. Weeks later, exhausted and running out of time, Case must decide if he's ready to become a father to these children, or give them up and move on with what's left of his life. Then he meets Gabbie Vaulst. Gabbie is amazing with the kids, owns her own business, and has all the right curves in all the right places. She can tell Case is attracted to her, but does he really love her or is he just settling for a surrogate Mom who can wrangle his new kids? Knowing that she's falling in love with him, she chooses to push him away until his world straightens out. Can Case prove to Gabbie, and himself, that his feelings are real? Or is this sudden family too much for both of them to handle? The odds, as well as members of their past who've come out of the woodwork, are against them, but when kids are involved, all bets are off.
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15 Comments
Carol M
5/18/2013 01:17:45 am

I've been here! thanks for the giveaway!

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Beverly Ovalle link
5/18/2013 02:36:52 pm

Love the excerpt.

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Michel
5/19/2013 05:53:19 am

Thanks

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Tamara Hoffa
5/18/2013 04:28:44 pm

I love books with kids! P.S. the tweet you have attached to the rafflecopter is not for this blog hop it's for a Valentines day hop. uh oh
sugerlady@aol.com

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michel prince
5/18/2013 05:17:01 pm

Thanks...that's what I get for doing so many blog hops this year. Hope you check out The Guardian's Heart.

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Amanda Ward
5/19/2013 04:28:54 am

Meltdowns are a monthly occurrence here. Frustration with the children ignoring me, frustration at myself for not writing and procrastinating, and especially at that certain time when nothing is going right. Time to go upstairs and slap the wotsits out my pillow!

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michel prince
5/19/2013 05:54:10 am

They're daily when I'm in a bad mood so I totally get where the little girl's coming from.

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susan platt
5/19/2013 04:52:59 am

I wanted to get her some new Pretties!! sounds so cute

susanmplatt AT Hotmail DOT com

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Michel
5/19/2013 05:54:59 am

You would be her best friend if you did.

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Melissa Keir link
5/19/2013 05:09:33 am

My favorite meltdown was when I got so pissed at my hubby that I threw food at him in the shower. It was my thinking that at least I didn't have to clean up so much of a mess!

daringzoey@yahoo.com

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michel prince
5/19/2013 05:55:48 am

As long as you didn't need to snake the drain afterwards because it clogged.

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Jillian link
5/19/2013 10:13:22 am

Sounds great and the cover is super!

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Catherine
5/19/2013 11:03:48 am

Thank goodness I don't remember any temper tantrums. My mother says I was a happy child...but I'm sure I had my share of fits!

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Jeanine
5/19/2013 12:46:38 pm

Sounds like a great story.

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Shadow
5/19/2013 01:35:16 pm

Hi! I have and breakdowns, meltdowns, etc. My mom is usually the one that calms me. I talk everything out with her. She helps me see the situation in a different light and also find a way to fix the problem too. :) Thanks for sharing and being apart of this great hop!
shadowluvs2read(at)gmail(dot)com

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