"I feel like I am stretched thin," he admitted. He could quit teaching, but who would make sure the kids were fed? Maybe Andrew would still deliver his day-old breads... "She certainly is reliable, but with the baby... Ahh, life has gotten so busy." He took a puff of his own pipe and sighed it out through his nostrils. He definitely looked pensive, and as if he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. Of course... there was his family trying to interlope too. Goodness.