Roll Call

Thulani and David (center)

Three boys are having a spontaneous sleepover with Thulani – and, of course, now we are three or four hours into it, the house is looking more like a bomb hit it than it usually does:

1. There’s Joseph from “down” the street although in Indianapolis nothing is up or down. Everything is flat. Joe is a regular. He sleeps here at least once a week.
2. David (my Godson) is here tonight but is here less often than he once was. He and Thulani have been in each others lives since Thulani arrived and David was 11-months old.
3. Jimmy’s here. He’s from a few houses north (“up the street”). He is the boy who taught my children the term “blood mom” and made our adoption stories that much easier to talk about.

Nate’s already “down” for the night – he and Max have had a long day loving each other, and it has exhausted both boy and dog. So with Thulani and Nate and guests it makes for a house of 5 boys and a dog.