Jake ducks his head and bumps shoulders with his father. He knows that his father cares for him and that they are closer than some of the people in town. Their whole family is.

Very carefully, under Robert's eye, he manages to flip one pancake without making too much of a failure of it. That's progress right there! Last time, well, they'd ended up scraping pancake off the window while cooking more.

"You're a sap, dad." Not that Jake minds.