Cookies and milk = wonders for the soul.
Flying in Alaska in the summer is rather amazing. It was light all day, except when the sun gently dipped below the horizon and then...shortly thereafter it would start to light the sky again, a few degrees from where it had set. We had a sunset every night around midnight and a sunrise just a few minutes later, or so it seemed. It was hard to sleep when I was in Alaska. The days were sooo long. And the weather was so completely opposite of wherever we took off from. It was always that way, no matter where we flew. I was newly pregnant with our second child. Carl was the only one who knew. I kept quiet about it. Carl took care of Sutter but because it was summer she went to see her grandparents in Newport Beach. And they loved going to the beach. We didn't want to tell our folks about the pregnancy because they had a hard enough time figuring how we did things in our lives. So we decided they didn't need to know - yet. I didn't want to lose that job. I