The Ten of Them – Chapter 10

Adult story: The Ten of Them – Chapter 10

by Hard93

Adding Sam to the Family: part two

In our last chapter we added Sam to our family, since that felt so good, we continue to add new family members. Alyssa becomes Sam’s adoptive grandmother, Joan and Johnny, Marshall and Misty, her new aunts and uncles, Michelle Collins an aunt, and Judge Thurgood as her great uncle. Of course all the Edwards will be her relatives once Kathryn and I adopt Sam. That is in the back of my mind right now as we begin to introduce Sam to all her relatives.

Sam looks around the room again and then she giggles, “Do they like to swim?”

Kathryn giggles and says, “My sisters, your aunts love to swim there over here every day practically.

Sam giggles, “I will get to swim a lot.”

I chuckle and say, “Just until you start to prune up a little.” Sam begins a beautiful little girl laugh that gets the attention of everyone.

The Coach says with a bright smile, “Oh look Princess Sam is awake.”

I pick her up and carry her over to her new grandpa. I don’t know why I say it but I say, “Samantha Sheridan Meyer I like to introduce you to your grandfather Michael Edwards.”

Kathryn wraps her arm around me kisses me on the cheek then whispers, “Yes, my husband we will adopt our Princess Sam.”

The Coach just like her natural grandfather takes her into his arms and kisses both her cheeks causing her to giggle merrily. Sam asks, “Grandpa you like to swim too?”

Coach chuckles and says, “I love to swim. Why do you ask?”

Sam explains as everyone listens, “Daddy and Mommy are going to teach me how to swim. But I can’t go swimming if I don’t have someone with me.”

The coach says, “You know I haven’t tried out JJ’s pool yet. I think it’s about time that I do. And I can help you learn to swim too.” Kathryn’s eyes go wide remembering how her Dad taught her how to swim. All the Edwards girls are giggling.

Kathryn says, “That’s okay Dad, JJ and I will teach her.”

Sam shakes her head yes and says, “It’s okay, grandpa you can come swim with me.” Everybody laughs.

Still in his arms the coach introduces Sam to each of his daughters and his sons. Then he introduces her to Judge Thurgood, when he uses great uncle George correct him by saying, “Great uncle just takes too long to say, call me Uncle George Sam.”

Sam giggles and says, “Okay Uncle George.”

Sam comes back to my arms and I introduce her to Misty, Marshall, Joan, Johnny, and Michelle Collins. Samantha giggles saying, “I have two Aunts name Michelle.”

Michelle Collins says, “You can just call me M.C. that’s my nickname.”

Sam giggles and says, “Aunt MC do you like to swim too.”

MC giggles and asks, “You’re just trying to be in the pool as much is possible aren’t you?”

Sam giggles and says, “Just till I prune a little.”

MC giggling says, “I like to swim too, so we will go swimming together too.”

Alyssa calls us over to the dinner she made us. Looking it over my stomach growls and so does Sam’s. We all set down at the table unlike normal Kathryn is not in my lap. Sam has taken Kathryn’s lap. I can learn to live with that. I’m not going to be jealous of my daughters taking up my wife’s time or her attention.

Alyssa has prepared dinner and she said it all on the table, there’s a large bowl with mashed potatoes, another with candied carrots, another with sweet peas, she warmed some bread, and platter with her meatloaf. I expected a large flat meatloaf was there is about three inches high by four inches wide by a foot long. It looks like a traditional meatloaf although little larger. From the look on Johnny’s and Joan’s faces us is not one of her normal dishes but one she cooks on special occasions.

Johnny says, “Mom, you made your special meatloaf, I really love it.”

The smells are intoxicating, Sam and my stomach growl in unison. Kathryn giggles and says, “We better make sure everyone gets a piece before these two eat it all.”

Marshall says, “Alyssa, I don’t think you’re going to have to worry about leftovers.” As Marshall’s stomach lets out a loud growl.

Alyssa with bright happy eyes begins cutting the meatloaf, there’s a stack of plates and she begin serving. Each plate she places a portion of each dish and hands the plate to each person in turn. Of course she gives me a plate first then Kathryn, Alyssa continues serving everyone. Showing remarkable patients Sam waits until everyone has food. Then she says, “Daddy, are you going to feed me?”

I get a fork full of mashed potatoes and hold a couple inches in front of Sam’s face and she leans forward and takes them off the fork quickly. I go back and get some meatloaf and Sam takes it as well. Sam gives a very satisfied sigh as she eats the meatloaf. Before she can swallow I get myself a portion as well. It has to be the easiest decision on what’s the best meatloaf of ever eaten at that point. Alyssa’s meatloaf is heavenly, if they serve it at a restaurant a hundred miles away and charge a hundred dollars a plate I would gladly drive there to buy it. I’m not sure how she did it, but there are three layers of meat loaf separated by cheese. The meatloaf by itself is great, but when you add the cheese it’s outstanding.

Sam now little bit impatient for her next bite as I quickly get her another piece of meatloaf. Next are some carrots, and then back to meatloaf. Kathryn is enjoying her dinner and watching me feed Sam. As fast as Sam is eating, I doubt I’ll get any other than just enough to whet my appetite. It keeps going like that would Sam getting three forks full to my one. Fortunately Sam gets full pretty quick and snuggling in Kathryn’s lap she goes right back to sleep.

There is just a little left on my plate and I quickly finish it. The whole table had been watching me feed Sam, Alyssa takes my plate and add seconds to it then hands it back. Smiling she says, “You two are going to be great for Sam.”

Sam hearing Alyssa’s voice comes awake just enough to say, “Thank you Grandma, that was great.” She again snuggles back to Kathryn and falls asleep.

Everyone at the table gets a chuckle out of Sam’s antics. She such a little Angel as she rests against Kathryn, she is definitely a pretty little girl with shoulder length chestnut brown hair, beautiful brown eyes with amber highlights to them. Not quite four years old but Sam stands almost three foot tall. She will probably be five feet two inches to five feet eight inches when she is full-grown. She has a slim build and maybe only 30 pounds, which is like Kathryn at her age according to Helen. Tomorrow would take Sam shopping after we finish trading.

Our class will grow to four tomorrow with the addition of Michelle Collins, MC. I promise to get them to the point where they can retire if that’s what they want to do. If we could get them somewhere between twenty and thirty million with the right investments, some high-yield bonds and stocks that should give them more than a million a year after taxes. The big problem is the first year taxes it’s going to take out quite a bit of the money earn, we need to get them more than fifty million, so after this year’s taxes they still have enough to continuously make a million plus taxes annually.

Another twenty-five or thirty days like we had yesterday, we should get that in before the end of summer, but yesterday was a very good day we may have to go through a part of this fall to get them to the point where they need to be at.

I don’t think they’ll be a problem with Marshall and MC, but Misty wants to go back to school to finish her senior year. I guess I can always come out of retirement to help Misty get to the point where she can retire. Maybe that something we’ll do every summer trade a little bit to make a few million or tens of millions and then go back into semi-retirement. We’ll talk that over after dinner.

As we finish dinner, Kathryn takes Sam back upstairs and I help her. We lay Sam back down then quietly go back downstairs. We find Grandma, Joan and Johnny working on the dishes as Mom explains to Alyssa, “You don’t need to do everything it is good for other people to feel needed too. Besides that it’s their way of thanking you for that great dinner.”

I walk over to her and give Alyssa kiss on the cheek and say, “That’s absolutely right, any time you make that I’ll do kitchen duty for a week.”

MC comes up and asks, “JJ, I hate to ask this of you, but I’m really not pay very well at the magazine, my old broker is an idiot and lost most of my money. Is there any way I can stay here?”

I chuckle and say, “Sam’s Aunt MC is always welcome. But family helps out around here be up early enough tomorrow to help with breakfast, after that dinner I think Alyssa has earned breakfast off tomorrow.”

Alyssa giggles and says, “I’m really going to like being here. Grandma’s got Joan and Johnny working without complaining. I can sleep in tomorrow while JJ and Kathryn make breakfast.”

Mom giggles and says, “It’s the only meal they do well at. I will clean up afterwards. That dinner was absolutely marvelous.”

Alyssa asks, “You guys really liked it that much?”

Judge Thurgood with a grin says, “If you were single I would be down on one knee right now.”

Alyssa blushes brightly and says, “Give me six months.”

The Judge raises an eyebrow and asks, “Is your husband an idiot?”

Joan and Johnny overhearing turn and say in unison, “Yes, he is.”

The Judge looks very shocked, I don’t think even knew Alyssa was getting a divorce. He definitely intended it to be only a compliment, and not a real marriage proposal. Alyssa has a playful side too. She cups the Judge’s face and says very seductively, “I’m not an easy woman to get, but if you’re really interested you can ask me out, after my divorce is finished. I’ll be living here, and when you come by to visit your little niece we can talk too.” The Judge gets a shy look for a second and blushes brightly. Alyssa giggles and walks away, I think she feels good, she probably hasn’t teased anyone in years, and seeing the effect she had on the Judge deftly was good for her ego.

Michael chuckles and smacks his buddy on the shoulder before saying, “She is a great cook and a looker at that.” Joan and Johnny just giggle as they rinse dishes. Marshall is smiling and I know he is trying to keep from laughing at his father.