Conspiracy

After a full day of shuttling and shuffling kids back and forth Brennan went for the final drop off with our friends to return their daughters. I helped him herd all the kids into the car and noticed that Abby had a bag and Anna was digging through her basket of clothes I had just folded. I remember thinking each of those things was weird, but frankly I'm used to weird and was in enough of a hurry I didn't stop to interrogate. I got them all into the car and sent them off and went to exercise. When I got home Brennan, Benny and Nate were there, but no girls. Brennan proceeded to explain what had happened. Apparently when they reached the designated meeting place the two friends we were supposed to be dropping off jumped out of the van the instant it stopped, Anna and Abby as if on cue began begging to be allowed to go to their house for a late night. When Brennan said no they tried to add more pressure by telling him they had each brought their pajamas (ahh, the bag and the digging through clothes!) Brennan was holding strong until the two friends came running out saying, "They said, 'Yes'!" They had a lovely late night, little stinks.