by Diana Orgain | Jul 10, 2021 | Maternal Instincts Mysteries, Sneak Peek, Uncategorized
From Prams and Poison Chapter One To Do: 1. Take Laurie to puppet time at the library. 2. Furnish twins’ new nursery! 3. Interview prospective nannies. 4. Dinner Saturday with Nick and his wife. 5. Buy larger maternity clothes! 6. Land new paying client. 7. Find out if Hank’s poker night is on the up and up. “Paula!” I held out my arms to welcome my best friend to my recently beautified backyard. My wonderful husband Jim had worked with Jojo—the contractor doing our garage-turned-nursery renova‐ tion—to turn the raggedy, neglected space into an oasis. Even in the middle of the day, when the string lights draped between the house and the pergola didn’t cast their fairy-tale glow on everything, I loved it. Paula’s jaw dropped as she pushed the pram through the gate and over the rippling grass. “You weren’t kidding! Jim did such a great job on this.” Baby Chloe’s tiny face peeked out of the pram from amid a sea of polka-dotted blankets, and Paula’s two-year-old Danny trailed behind them, zooming his toy through the air while making a high-pitched whirring noise. Laurie flailed in my arms at the sight of her little friends and managed to land a painful kick on my growing baby bump. “Hey!” I said, resting my free hand on my abdomen. “Be nice to your little siblings, peanut.” She just wiggled some more. Paula pulled the pram to a halt beneath the pergola, and Danny leaped from the stroller, holding his Spider-Man action figure high in the air. “I’m Pie-da-Man!” he yelled, throwing out his hand like he was shooting a...
