Making breakfast was our moniker for baby-making sex. Sausage and eggs, please! we’d laugh.

Now we’re sitting in a sticky booth with our baby.

“What’s your order, dear?”

“Coffee,” you say.

The waitress turns to me.

“Sausage and eggs!” I beam.

But you say nothing. Your tired eyes look away.

Katherine is a stay-at-home mother living in New England with her husband and three toddlers. Writing is helping her stay sane. She has a BA in Psychology from Wellesley College and an MA in Criminal Justice from Boston University. She is a participant in the Westport Writers’ Workshop in Westport, CT.