Chapter 740 A New Georgy-girl:>Ep36

• After emptying out the shopping cart for the third time and putting all the chocolate bars, potato chips, doughnuts, chocolate biscuits, Mars Bars, sweets, dog food (Jerry couldn't read the labels on cans yet, but he liked the nice doggie pictures) and unidentifiable junk back on the shelves, I finally got the message and took Edie and Jerry on a walk on the village green with a candy-bar each to look at the duck-pond while Georgy did some actual grocery shopping. Jamie elected to stay close to her, obviously taking his new job of keeping his mummy safe very seriously. Watching him hold her hand tightly and intently watch everyone who came too close made me grin. Good lad.
• We had a pair of mid-sized chest freezers back at the house and six adults to feed, as well as three faddy children and their bird-like appetites; our mission was to fill the pantry and freezers with enough real food that we didn't need to keep going back and forth to the store and leaving the house undefended if whoever was stalking us should suddenly show up. When I finally rendezvoused with Georgy she had three shopping carts stacked high with produce, canned food, dry goods, and frozen food, a mountain of frozen meat, and a couple of secret shopping bags bulging with treats for the kids. Georgy knew how to dole out sweets and 'treats' aka junk food sparingly; I'd tried in the past but the looks on their little faces defeated me and I usually took the coward's way and caved in, so she managed their junk-food ration because I patently couldn't.
• After dinner it took Georgy, Aunt Kay, and Megan to bathe the kids (or in Jamie's case trust, but verify...) and get them in their PJ's and into bed, and keep them there. The events of the day, the long drive, and then the frenzy of running around exploring the cottage, and of course, having Megan and two overgrown juvenile delinquents like Bonzo and Jarhead around to play with meant it took longer than usual for them to spin-down and finally conk-out.