I agree that Barnabus and Julia were great "being in charge", after all all of the other adults had deserted the children. Even Carolyn spends her time with her mother's coffin! It is understandable that Barnabus tried to stand in for Roger, but if he had not received the summons from Vicki to go back to the past, was he just going to dash off to Boston with nary a thought of leaving Julia in charge of the whole Collins madhouse? He is doing that now by returning to the future. It is too much to ask of Mrs. Johnson to be the only level head and cool voice left at the old homestead!
Afan, who is glad that he didn't leave that mess with me
to "ride herd" on.
Afan