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“You’re very close to your daadi, ya ?”
    “Yes, I am.” Jake glanced down at his dark T-shirt and jeans. “I guess I don’t look like an Amish carpenter, but I’d like to be one.”
    Katie chuckled. “I think you’d make a wunderbaar gut Amish carpenter.”
    “Danki.” He grinned. “I’ve heard the bakery is very busy too.”
    “ Ya , it usually stays that way until the cold weather comes in,” Katie said. “Then the tourist groups disappear until spring.”
    “Eli told me Elizabeth wants new display cabinets installed at the bakery,” Jake said. “She’s pushing him to do the renovations this fall and winter when the bakery isn’t very busy.”
    “Really?” Katie asked in surprise. “I had no idea.” She considered the shopping area in the front of the bakery. “I guess the bakery still has the original cabinets from when it was built nearly thirty years ago, ya ?”
    He shrugged. “That’s what Eli said.”
    “That will be a nice change,” Katie said.
    “What’s your favorite dessert to bake?” he asked.
    Katie considered the question and thought about the many desserts she prepared every day. “I guess it would have to be chocolate chip cookies.”
    “Really?” Jake raised an eyebrow. “Chocolate chip cookies?”
    Katie frowned. “What’s wrong with that?”
    “That’s so …” He paused. “Ordinary.”
    Her frown deepened. “You haven’t tried my chocolate chip cookies, so how would you know if they’re ordinary?”
    He held his hands up as if to surrender. “I guess you got me there, Katie. I’ll have to try them and see if they are truly extraordinary.”
    Katie wagged a finger at him. “That’s a deal. I’ll have to make you some and then you can judge.”
    “Jake,” Samuel called from the doorway leading to the shop. “Can you help us load some wood into the back of the wagon?”
    “Of course,” Jake said, standing and walking toward the work area. “I was asking about your sister’s baking.”
    Samuel grinned. “You’d be surprised how gut she is. I like her cooking and baking more than mei mamm ’s.”
    Surprised by her brother’s compliment, Katie smiled as she followed Samuel and Jake through the shop. She waved as she passed her uncle Luke and other familiar carpenters on her way out the back door. Katie nodded and greeted her grandfather and her uncles, Timothy and Daniel. Together, the men loaded wooden planks and tools into the back of the wagon.
    Once they were done, Samuel shook their hands and climbed into the wagon. Katie said good-bye to her uncles and grandfather and climbed up next to Samuel.
    “Hey, Katie,” Jake called from the back door of the shop. “Don’t forget my chocolate chip cookies.”
    “I won’t, Jake,” Katie said. “I promise.”
    Jake waved before heading back into the shop.
    “What was he talking about?” Samuel asked as he guided the horse through the parking lot.
    “ Kichlin ,” Katie said with a shrug.
    Lindsay stepped into Rebecca’s bedroom Saturday night. “They’re asleep.” She lowered herself onto the hope chest across from where Rebecca sat propped up in bed. “They wore themselves out today running around outside.” She studied her aunt’s pale complexion. “How are you feeling?”
    Rebecca frowned. “I feel the same as I do every day. I’m frustrated I can’t get up and take care of mei kinner. ” She sighed and placed the Christian novel she’d had in her lap on the night stand. “It’s funny how I miss the little things. For example, itseems like an eternity since I gave the kinner a bath. I would love to hear Emma giggle and splash in the water again.”
    “This is temporary,” Lindsay said. “Remember how you said this time would fly by, and before you knew it, you’d be holding your new boppli in your arms?”
    Rebecca ran her fingers over her headscarf. “I was wrong.”
    “You were wrong about what?” Daniel stood in the doorway.
    “ Aenti Rebecca is frustrated about