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Post by larue on Jun 20, 2006 14:13:23 GMT 10
Where do I get my ideas??? Just a word about the abandoned baby story line. My 10 year old daughter was adopted from Russia at the age of 5 years old. She has been obsessed with her own 'foundling' story lately and asked me to included a lost baby in one of my stories.
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Post by megan on Jun 20, 2006 14:16:49 GMT 10
oh so cute! i loved it! update soon please
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Post by zelda on Jun 20, 2006 20:55:30 GMT 10
Hi, Larue, I have a lot of catching up to do, and am so very happy you started writing again. Hope everything's really fine with your family now. What a sweet idea to write about this baby girl. Hope you'll please your daughter and let this baby be part of the Kovac family....Just an idea crossing my mind!!! Waiting for the next part....
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Post by linda on Jun 21, 2006 3:43:29 GMT 10
ooooooooooooh i love this fic! the little baby-please let abby and luka have her! that'd be so adorable. I like the idea in the one before about her nursing the baby, its a lovely idea. and that dress sounds amazing!
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Post by sammiejm on Jun 21, 2006 3:56:45 GMT 10
Where do I get my ideas??? Just a word about the abandoned baby story line. My 10 year old daughter was adopted from Russia at the age of 5 years old. She has been obsessed with her own 'foundling' story lately and asked me to included a lost baby in one of my stories. That's so sweet of you to include her ideas in your story. This part was as good as usual, lovely chat between Susan and Abby - I so miss Susan - and the guys were listening all the time! Luka's Meryl Streep obsession is no longer a secret
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Post by Noora on Jun 22, 2006 0:00:28 GMT 10
Hi larue. Amazing updates, WOW, and funny as hell. Your fics always make me smile and laugh, that's one reason why I love them! That whole babything, your daughter, etc. -Very cute! Keep going!
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Post by *Natalie* on Jun 22, 2006 7:05:29 GMT 10
Loving the update!! Hope you do more soon...loving the idea of Christmas in Croatia natalie x
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Post by rorygilmore on Jun 22, 2006 8:44:05 GMT 10
“Did you hear that?” he asked, “Silver satin and….backless? Man…” Luka nodded quickly and bit his bottom lip. “Meryl Streep?” Chuck said. Luka nodded sheepishly. HE HE HE...they were listening all the time!!! LOVE IT!!! I simply love this last chapter. I also like the idea of Luby adopting the little baby...then they'll have two flower maids for the 'Christmas in Croatia' Your story is beautiful, can't wait to read what's next.
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Post by Lubyfanatic316 on Jun 22, 2006 12:00:49 GMT 10
Great update!
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Post by lubyfan on Jun 23, 2006 21:42:43 GMT 10
Love it!
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Post by larue on Jul 5, 2006 5:22:13 GMT 10
Susan watched Luka work as he filled the slender chicken wire cages he’d formed around the legs of his camping tripod with charcoal briquettes and lit them. Chuck handed him the turkey they had impaled on two hot dog fork hooks and slipped inside a turkey cooking bag. The bag was fastened snugly around the handles of the forks. Luka hung the turkey on the hook that would have held a pot over a fire. The two handles of the forks let the turkey hang directly in the center of the tripod. The two men then covered the entire tripod with heavy duty aluminum foil.
“Very interesting….” Susan mused. “And this is going to be done for dinner?” Luka shrugged.
“It’s supposed to,” he said as he settled back in his camp chair with the beer that Chuck handed to him. Chuck sat in his own chair and he and Luka tapped their beer bottles together companionably.
“I am kind of curious, Luka,” Susan asked as she circled the covered tripod. “Just where do you get all of these ideas?” Abby chuckled as she shifted Lauren from one shoulder to the other and dropped a diaper into the trash can.
“Oh, please…” she grinned. “Let me tell her.”
“I’m not embarrassed,” Luka smirked. Susan frowned thoughtfully and then nodded smugly.
“You’re still watching Martha Stewart, aren’t you?” Luka raised his eyebrows and took a swig from his beer bottle.
“You didn’t complain about last night’s dinner,” he said.
“Ooooo….” Susan shivered remembering the deliciously moist beef roast he had covered with a thick mustard and kosher salt paste before setting it cook directly on the fire’s coals. Baked potatoes and roasted corn on the cob had topped off that particular meal.
“Martha rules!” Susan sighed happily and picked up Cosmo’s sand toys. “We are off to the beach. Have fun guys.” Abby blew Luka a kiss and she smiled as she and Susan walked toward the path that led them from the camping area to the sandy beach dune. She had Lauren over one shoulder and a diaper bag with sunscreen and water bottles peeking out the top over the other. Chuck shook his head as he watched them go.
“Man….I can not get the image of that silver satin backless thing out of my head,” he sighed contentedly.
“Hey, you are talking about my girl’s wedding dress,” Luka frowned.
“I know! I know!” Chuck groaned. “But I am seeing it on mine!” Luka grinned and watched Abby and Susan as they disappeared over the beach ridge.
Susie and Heather had found a spot below the dune for them and had a beach umbrella already in place. They were sitting on a towel and Cosmo was in the sand nearby, buried up to his waist, playing happily with a little car in the sand around him.
“Nice way to keep in him one place,” Abby laughed.
“Thank you!” Susie said as they stood up. ‘We’re meeting some of the other kids at the ranger station for a nature hike. We’ll be back later.”
“Uh, girls…” Susan said. Susie and Heather turned around.
“Do not find any more babies on the path, okay?” Susie rolled her eyes and shook her head.
“Did we tell you that the people who are going to adopt her are keeping the name we gave her?” Heather asked. “And that they are going to invite us to her christening?”
“Yeah, I remember hearing that somewhere…..” Susan nodded. Susie rolled her eyes again and grabbed her friend’s arm and pulled her away. Abby settled Lauren on the blanket and slathered baby sunscreen in her hand and kissed the folds of Lauren’s neck as she smoothed the cream all over the little girl’s bare back and tummy. She twisted Lauren’s long dark hair into a pony tail top knot and secured it with a flower hair clip.
“Help me please!” Cosmo said quietly as he smiled up at his mother. Susan sat next to him in the sand and pulled a shovel out of his toy bag. He took it from her and went back to digging in the sand in front of him. Abby sat Lauren nearby and gave her a small shovel. The little girl watched Cosmo intently and then dug her own shovel into the sand. She crawled over and patted his head. Cosmos shook the sand from his face and smiled as he handed her the car he’d been playing with.
“Promise me something, Abby,” Susan said as she watched the two of them. Abby looked up from the sunscreen she was smoothing onto her arms.
“If Cosmo doesn’t have a date for his senior prom, you’ll let Lauren go with him.” Abby laughed and shook her head.
“Oh, I am sure he’d absolutely love squiring her there when she’s what…...a fourteen year old?” she said sarcastically.
“But she will be gorgeous…..” Susan sighed. Abby chuckled.
“Okay,” she said. “I promise…but only if you promise that he will be available for Lauren’s senior prom?” Susan nodded and they high fived one another. They settled back on their beach towels.
“Did you even go to your senior prom?” Susan asked after a moment. Abby glanced over at her.
“No….” she said.
“Me neither,” Susan laughed.
Something smelled delicious when they returned to the campsite. Luka and Chuck were holding court as other campers had gathered to see what was cooking inside the foil tent.
“It’s actually working?” Abby asked. Luka grinned and nodded. He peeled back some of the foil so they could see the turkey bubbling in it’s juices inside cooking bag. Susan and Abby exchanged glances.
“Who would have thought of something like this?” Susan shook her head. Luka started to say something and Susan held up her hand and Abby laughed.
“I know, I know,” Susan said. “Martha rules!”
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Post by larue on Jul 5, 2006 5:24:31 GMT 10
They are Martha Stewart recipes for the sake of the story. Both the beef roast and turkey recipes are standard fare for my family at some point during our camping season. Both came from other campers that we join on occasion.
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Post by anna982 on Jul 5, 2006 5:35:57 GMT 10
[glow=red,2,300]Update again soon. I love it[/glow]
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Post by sammiejm on Jul 5, 2006 6:06:42 GMT 10
Oh goody, another brilliant update Larue. I love it that Luka is man enough not to be embarrassed about watching Martha Stewart. He really is in touch with his feminine side!
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Post by *Natalie* on Jul 5, 2006 6:20:18 GMT 10
Great update!
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