after all of that , when they finally climbed into the car to leave for school - but not yet - the thought came to her after the girls admitted they forgot to pick up their permission slips in the house , and then kathy remembered that the girls needed more money for lunch tickets , and she ran inside to get the checkbook and fretted for a two minutes looking into cupboards wondering what was she going to make for dinner that night and only saw the hamburger helper box with the white-glove mascotonly then did the notion about having another child occur to her , in a little moment that froze time , warmed her , erased all stress , and then skipped by .