Home. At last. Ali touched the doorknob hesitantly, almost afraid it wasn't real. After everything she had been through ( Read more... )

I would like to welcome Donovan Ambrose and Cateline Dory into the worlds. They are as perfect and beautiful as I could ever imagine. I can only hope I shall be a suitable mother for two children so destined for greatness. I know you all understand why I have to limit visitors for the first few days. This is family time ( Read more... )

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Ali didn't have a curfew. The very idea was preposterous! She was lady of the house, and certainly an adult; who could tell her when she could come and go from her own home ( Read more... )

From a certain point of view, anyone watching the goslings around the tree this year would think that this sort of thing was easy ( Read more... )

Weddings are meant to be special, once-in-a-lifetime events; the union of two souls deeply in love, the uniting of two families, the formation of something new and precious ( Read more... )

Halloween, Samhain, All Hallow's Eve--whatever you want to call it, it's a very important time of year in the Trainer household. There were costumes and candy and mischief to be had by all on the threshold of the year. This year was no different, despite Sasha's increasing paranoia (and girth, though nobody's brave enough to mention that): Ali, ( Read more... )

No matter what the future holds, there's no sense in hiding from it. And sometimes it holds good things, too. Today, for instance, brought a step closer to something that should make the whole family happier: ( Hans coming to join them, permanently. )

Finally, after months of work and discussion, compromise and delay, their new home was finished. Everything of vital import had been moved, excepting the family: they were going through the Dreaming, so Jack could go with them. In that place, what was in one reality a large stone building in the middle of a city was a smaller stone house with a ( Read more... )

Moving is never an easy task: there's so much cleaning, packing, fixing-up, and shopping to do as to drive even the most avid a little mad. When the person moving is a Duchess, and the purpose of the move is in part to give her a home suited for her position, the work grows exponentially. Add to that five children, a dozen pets, a permanent house ( Read more... )