151 What? 152 While you're gone, I'll be here paying bills and sorting laundry and cooking dinner, 153 so what part of that sounds like a vacation? 154 Okay, right, you know what? We'll pick up dinner. 155 and you just take a hot bath, relax, recharge. 156 & nbsp; 157 Okay, I get it. 158 It's going to take more than a hot bath to recharge, 159 but, uh, don't forget, I'm here all week. 160 Then what? 161 And then we go back to normal? 162 Tom, our last version of normal had me popping pills. 163 Normal is a bad, bad plan. 164 Okay, so we'll put our heads together, and we'll come up with a solution. 165 I think we need to hire a nanny full-time. 166 That's just such a big, big commitment. 167 I know, and I know we can't afford it, 168 and I know everything that's happened is my fault, 169 but if I don't get some help, 170 there's an excellent chance I will lose my mind. 171 Okay, well, then, we have to make it work. 172 Next up, the 200-meter freestyle. 173 It's just not right. 174 What? 175 A woman is in a coma because of Andrew, and there he is, happy as a clam. 176 Well, we grounded him, we took away the tv in his room. 177 How many more ways you want to punish him? 178 Swimmers, take your marks. 179 I think we should make him quit the swim team. 180 Bree, this is the one thing in his life that he's passionate about. 181 Well, maybe if we take it away from him, then he'll start to understand what he did. 182 He has not shown an ounce of remorse since the accident. 183 Of course he feels bad. 184 He's just, you know, keeping up a facade. 185 Well, he's doing a fabulous job. 186 Look, if we take him off the swim team, 187 he'll lose his shot at an athletic scholarship, 188 and then he's never going to forgive us. 189 Well, if it ensures he grows up with some trace of humanity, then that's a risk I am willing to take. 190 Well, I'm not. 191 That's because you just don't love him as much as I do. 192 Well, isn't that nice? 193 It's just a fact. I'm his mother. 194 He lived inside of me. 195 He hung out in your womb for a few months back in the '80s. 196 Since then, I have grown to love him just as much as you. 197 What just happened? 198 That kid you both love so much just won the race. 199 John. 200 My mom said you needed volunteers, so I volunteered. |