The Keeper
“Lately, Sadie studied herself in mirrors as she hadn’t before. She wasn’t overly encouraged by what she saw.“You look better today than you did a week ago,” Fern said.Sadie whipped around. Fern was leaning against the doorjamb with some freshly ironed prayer caps in her hands. How long had she been there? Sadie was mortified! Fern came into Sadie’s room and opened a bureau drawer to tuck away the prayer caps. While Fern’s head was down, preoccupied with the messy condition of the drawer, Sadie ...held the mirror out to get a better look at herself. Maybe Fern was right. Even though it had only been a week, Sadie’s tummy didn’t seem to stick out so far, maybe because she didn’t have so much time to eat. Fern was forever sending her on errands, and she made Sadie walk, not take the buggy. And every time she wandered into the kitchen for a snack, Fern found something important for her to do right away—take notes from some books about healing herbs, help Menno harvest fruit in the orchard, dig out a new section of Julia’s garden to add another section to the herb garden.MoreLess
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