Day 245

More notes for myself.  I am happy to say that I am now finally caught up with my blog posts!

It is now ten years later.  Baby One is ten years old now.  He turned his toy into a dangle that he put on his bandana.  Jake also had Baby Two.  Baby One yearns to be a pirate and tries to do everything he can to prove that.  Baby Two loves his dad and follows his big brother around, being an inquisitive pest.  Mimosa and Allison have a set of 9 year old twins, Thomas and Jessie.  Mimosa, Nora, and Scully are more lax around Jake and call him by his first name sometimes.  Becky got another letter from her father, and being reminded that she promised them another visit, she asked Jake to take them all to England so her parents could meet Baby Two.  She bribed him with the promise of raiding a few coastal towns and ships on their way home.

Jake took his normal crew and set out.  Mimosa had ordered his children to stay home with a nanny named Margaret, but they stowed away as the ship was departing.  Jake told them that as punishment they had to join the crew or walk the plank unless someone claimed them, who was Mimosa.  They were still given punishments.  Thomas was given dish duty, and Jessie had to swab the quarter deck.  The crew took rotations on shore while Jake and Becky visited.

Charlotte wanted to meet Becky’s parents to see who were the people who treated Jake so poorly when he was young, but she didn’t want her identity known.  She came as moral support for Jake as well.  They had intended to stay a week but could only take four days.  The parents were shocked that the children didn’t learn at a school or have a grand civilized lifestyle like themselves. Baby One was shocked with how few weapons they had, and Baby Two was scared of the clothing.  Becky and the kids were bored.  Jake went out to explore the town and show places he had been growing up.  He found out Nelson had cleared his name, and he ran into Timmy, an old friend from the orphanage now working at a cobbler’s shop.  Jake bought Baby Two a pair of pirate boots.

Becky came up with the excuse that the children missed home and needed a stable environment to grow properly.  Mimosa and family barged in the last night as well to inform the captain that the crew needed him (and to meet the parents).  One of the crew had gotten into a bar fight, but it was resolved.  Becky promised they’d visit again.  All were happy to be back on the ship. Jake made his son a cabin boy early.