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    “My dad is awesome and he will HI-YAH those stupid….” Daltin started before Kris covered her son’s mouth.
    Tina laughed as Cloie belted out that it wasn’t funny that her dad was out there. Sidnie reached for Cloie’s hand. “They will be fine. Both of our dads are awesome and will be home soon.”
    Kris looked at her daughter and half smiled at her as a thank you for trying to keep Cloie calm as she had asked her to do.
    The four finished their cereal and looked at their mothers for the okay to leave.
    Both Tina and Kris waved them off and they hurried out of the cafeteria; the boys back to their pile of sticks and the girls back under the small tree to sit and draw in their spirals that had been found in the classrooms of the school.
    “I wish Cloie understood a little more about Gizmo being gone.” Tina watched her daughter.
    “She is a little young and just misses her dad, she will be fine.” Kris told her friend. “This is the first time they have gone out without us and she is a bit of a daddy’s girl. While we were gone, they were watched by everyone and knew that we were out there taking care of her dad. Now we are here and she might be a little confused on why we aren’t out with him.”
    Both knew that they needed to get their day started and take care of the ‘wifely duties’.
    They gathered the kids and led them back into the school and started them on the chore of gathering their clothes to be washed.
    The few things that they were able to gather before coming to their new home was stashed into filing cabinets and cupboards of the different classrooms that Kris and Tina had made into their own little homes for the time being. They made tubs that they had found in one of the science labs as their dirty laundry basket and were able to wash clothes in the old field house. The dryers had worked at one time, but they were down to two out of four which made it hard for everyone to get their belongings dried. Tina and Kris decided that hanging their wash on rope that they had found in one of the warehouses that must have been used for shop class, was what they would do to save the dryers that were left. They had made the best of what they were given.
    There had been enough refrigerators in the cafeteria to spare a few for the groups to have one in their make shift homes. They were able to get some food from Karen to put in their own rooms. Tina and Kris would usually get a loaf of bread and things for sandwiches and split the food between the two rooms. Lunch time was usually sandwiches or sometimes they were lucky to get some of the microwave dinners that they were able to heat up in their shared microwave if the plant workers didn’t get to them first. Karen only put out so many a day to save on what they had.
    It had been hard for Tina and Kris to adjust to the change of their previous life, but they made due and began teaching the children that this was their new life.
    It had been quite a bit easier with all of the friends that they had made that lived in neighboring classrooms along with their husbands and all of the things that had been brought back on the missions that they had been on. This being the first mission Kris and Tina were not able to go on with their husband’s, made them thankful that they had husband’s that cared so much about them all, that they would go risk their lives and want them to stay to keep them safe.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    GIZMO’S HOUSE
     
     
     
     
     
    EVERYONE STARTED to pull up to the Jacob’s home. The smell of hickory slapped me in the face as soon as I cracked the door to my car and I could see the rise of smoke pouring from the pit up on the hill. We stepped out about the same time as Justin did from his truck. We all grabbed our loaded down ice chests from our vehicles which looked like a train of coolers making their way up the hill full of the refreshing goodness of beer. We lined the ice chests up on the side