Coffee Hour

"Coffeehousing" has a negative connotation in the Scrabble world, where it means to throw off your opponent via verbal deception, but we spent the morning outside that world, and so coffeehousing to us meant a pleasant breakfast at a local shop with friends. Reed spent most of the time in his mother’s arms, where he kept an eye on Olivia to make sure that she wasn’t poking at his pancake platter.