Candy, Sally Spratt [early reader books .txt] 📗

features had softened, her hair was loose around her shoulders; she looked younger and more vibrant that she had in years. He liked what he saw and he began to spend fewer hours at work, began to spend more time with his wife and his children. That evening he took the whole family out to dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant where they learned about Anh and Phuong’s culture.

A year had gone by since Candy’s father died. The family crammed into the mini-van. Frank drove, this time he was relaxed and calm, he kept reaching over to his wife and gently rubbed her hand and shoulder. Each of the girls held a single rosebud. Niles sat between his cousins and they laughed and giggled together over the song he was playing for them. They all stood around their grandfather’s grave, the girls crying quietly as each gently placed a rose on their grandfather’s grave. Niles placed a CD of music he had complied for his grandfather. Phuong and Anh knelt down and touched the grave of the grandfather they had never met. Frank stood back with Candy, his arm around her shoulders gently cradling her and kissed her on the cheek. He turned to her and apologized for his behavior when her father was dying. He should have been there for her, more importantly he had wished that he had gotten to know her father while he was alive. He promised Candy, that he would never go back to being the man he was.

Candy, hugged her husband, and the children surround them. She had done what she had promised her father she would do, but it was only because of her father’s past. She could not regret that it had taken her father’s death for her life to change, she had to thank him that had changed, so had her all family. More important the family was now complete.
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Publication Date: 02-15-2010

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