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Erin's New Daddy
written by: Helen Dowd
ERIN’S NEW DADDY
Erin was sitting at the table coloring in her new coloring book when the phone rang.
“That was Auntie Bev,” said Karen, Erin’s Mommy, hanging up the phone. “She will be staying with you and Joey while Mommy is away. Karen took the big calendar from the wall and sat down beside Erin. “Can you read these numbers?”
“Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve and thirteen,” said Erin, grinning up at her mommy.
“Those are the days Mommy will be away. If you color one number every day while I am gone, it will make the days go faster,” said Karen. “Then on the fourteenth I will be home. And I will be bringing a Daddy for you and Joey.”
“My own Daddy?” Erin jumped up from the table. “My Daddy’s coming back. My Daddy’s coming back,” she sang.
“No, Erin, not that Daddy. He’s with Jesus, like I told you a long time ago.”
Erin frowned. Why was Mommy bringing home a new Daddy? She didn’t understand She had noticed, though, that her mommy didn’t seem sad anymore. And lately, sometimes when her mommy read the mail, she would smile. That made Erin happy. But right now Erin wasn’t very happy. She didn’t like hearing that another Daddy would be coming. She wanted her own Daddy back. She knew he had gone to heaven, ‘cause
Mommy had told her, but she had thought that maybe if she prayed hard enough he would decide to come back. Just now, screwing her face into a pout, she said, “What Daddy? I don’t want another Daddy.”
Karen pulled her daughter on to her lap. “Remember Daddy’s friend? The one you called ‘Uncle Bill’? Well, Uncle Bill is going to be coming here, and he is going to take over Daddy’s store. Mommy and Uncle Bill are going to be married.. So Uncle Bill will become your new Daddy. Won’t that be nice? You and Joey will have a Daddy again. He will love you and Joey and Mommy just like Daddy did..”
“I don’t want a new Daddy. I want my own Daddy back.” Erin pushed her way off her mommy’s lap and ran outside. She began playing as hard as she could. Maybe if she pretended that what her Mommy had just told her wasn’t going to happen, it wouldn’t.
Erin worked really hard while her mommy was away. She helped Aunt Bev do the dishes, fold diapers, and sweep the floor. And she looked after little Joey all day. But she wouldn’t look at the calendar Mommy had told her to color. She hadn’t colored one single day. In fact, she didn’t even know how many days Mommy had been gone. And she didn’t care. She wasn’t even thinking about Mommy.
One day the phone rang. When Aunt Bev came back into the kitchen after answering it she had a big smile
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