Byline: Jacey Eckhart
Husband making dinner - check.
Seven-year-old finishing homework - check.
Four-year-old destroying dinosaur/cowboy world - check.
If this family was always so gainfully employed, I would probably already have this silly book read, I thought, as I collapsed on the bed and reached for ``Snow Falling on Cedars.''
Snuggling under my quilt, I noted that I had precisely 82 minutes before Book Club began to read the middle seven chapters. I had read the first half of the book months ago, but skipped to the end because I couldn't stand not knowing whether or not they had sent one of the characters to jail.
I had just settled down to it ...