They had a housekeeper/nanny, Brenda, in from about ten in the morning till Kevin got home around six. She watched the kids when they weren’t in school, and did the cleaning when they were. This allowed Theresa to shut herself up in the study all day and write. She was determined to have a successful sophomore novel, though the odds were against it. It had taken a while for the kids to get used to Mommy being home, but not really home. So far, the heroine was a remarkably unremarkable mother of three. Gee, how’d she come up with that?