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Fifty-Four
Glenna offered to watch Becky, with her Elly on the same T-ball team, leaving Robin free to keep an eye on Glenna’s oldest Evey, and Nova.
Becky was super-confident, and thought she was the greatest T-ball player on the planet, especially with the quieter Elly on the same team.
But Glenna could handle her. Robin’s niece Perci was helping coach Ivy and Emmy’s team on the third field. She was getting a real kick out of watching little miss attitude Becky Benson on the smaller field, too. “She acts so much like Pan did back then. Always after attention—even looks like her, too.”
Robin laughed. “I think it comes from competing with older twins, actually. I’ve heard identical twins get all the good attention away from younger siblings or something.”
Perci snorted. “Whatever, you singletons are just jelly. Practice is starting. I’m going to check on Poppy and get out there with Ivy and Emmy. Wish me luck—keeping that baby sister on task can be a challenge.”
Perci and her siblings neverreferred to Glenna’s girls as stepsisters. Not even once. They were their sisters, and that had been unanimously decided before Robin had even moved to Masterson.
Glenna had Perci’s younger daughter in a carrier on her chest now, playing grandma. “Gotcha.”
They had family on every field. The kids were as safe here as they could possibly be. Connected.
This was exactly what Robin had wanted for her kids. This right here.
Community.
Family.
Belonging.
She was going to see to it that Nick’s kids got that, too.
Nova had some trouble staying on task—but so did Evey and every other six- and seven-year-old on the team. Nova did what she was told, she listened well, and when she came off the diamond, she was grinning ear to ear.
And holding hands with Glenna’s Evey. They’d partnered up all of practice.
They’d told her earlier—they were best friends now, just like Ivy and Emmy.
And they said Becky and Elly had to be best friends, too. Since they were the same age. None of the little girls had protested.
It was beautiful.
She just hopedthe girls kept those connections when they were older.
Robin made certain Nova had all her gear and Evey had hers, then walked Evey over to the smallest field where the T-ball players—late two-to-three-year-olds were. They had four teams per age group—they’d all gotten lucky to have practices on the same nights. Robin was thrilled.
The boys practiced twice a week. Becky as well.
She could end up at the ball field four nights a week.
She probably should have warned Nick about that. After she swapped Evey out for Becky and heard all about practice from her baby girl in Becky-speak, she and Nova and Becky headed toward the boys’ fields. Their practices were thirty minutes longer than the younger kids’, though they usually ran over if the boys were having fun.
“We get to watch the boys for a few minutes. We’ll do…fifteen minutes at Noah’s practice, and then fifteen minutes at Philip and Wesley’s.” The twins’ team was right next to the playground. The girls would be ready to hit the slides after about ten minutes, she suspected.
She joined up with Glenna and her little pack. Glenna was headed over to check on Patton and Phil before going over to check on Parker.
Their girls ran ahead of them.
Robin and Glenna’s shoulders bumped. Robin breathed in a deep breath.
“You sound happy,” Glenna said. “Look happy. As Rory would say—happy as a little Robin with a great big worm.”
She laughed. Rory had said that far too many times to count. “I am. This…feels like home.”
