Episode 740: Am I Wrong

Quent brushed aside her hands and set to work buttoning her back up. "You’re going. You’ve been so excited about this woman’s nail polish; you’ve talked about it non-stop since Michael called. You have a mile long list of publicity ideas."

"That was before both my kids came down with colds on what was supposed to be my first day back after maternity leave."

"My mom’s here, she’s dealt with plenty of sniffles in her life, they’ll be okay, and next thing you know Hero will be well enough to go in to work with you as planned, meantime, you can and you should work on this campaign. You want this."

"Presumably, she also wanted another child," Quentin’s mother chimed in from the other side of the kitchen.

Quentin frowned at her. "Mom, you’ve tossed out snide comments like that ever since you showed up this morning. That’s why you were our last resort for someone to look after the kids, I knew you’d revert to this attitude with Justine headed back to work. If you can’t be respectful of her and what she needs to be happy then you won’t even be our last resort."

"I was only giving my opinion," his mother huffed as she collected Tansy’s breakfast tray, and stormed off to Tansy’s bedroom.

"I’m sorry about that," Quent said and kissed his wife’s temple. "Hopefully at some point my mom’s thinking will modernize a bit."

"I’m sorry that this has you at odds with her, I know how not great that feels. Maybe I should-"

"You’re going back to work today, and I need to go in to work today, too. So we’ll both come home on our lunch breaks if we can. We’ll both wrap things up early, if possible, and throughout the day, I’ll check in with my mom while you check in with Tansy. She hasn’t lost that old phone we gave her for emergencies last month, has she?"

"She still has the phone; it’s just not the same as a mom though, is it?"

Episode 741: Lift Me Up