Sam is going to be 8 months old next week. That's a little bit unbelievable on many levels but the clothing box, it seems, has it's own opinion. Granted, traipsing about the island with an eight month old in tow hasn't really leant itself to worrying about her appearance but she didn't think it was this bad. Sexy dresses, lingerie, and the ( Read more... )

Dated 31th July, 2009:
After two and a half years of trying, Lily can finally give Eddie they good news: they're pregnant with their second child.
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She'd never taken a photograph of her own child ( Read more... )

This was River's first ever experience of a dance recital in which she wasn't performing herself, but in charge of the whole thing. She found it more than a little bit nerve-wracking, but she had faith in her students, and of course they came through ( Read more... )

"Spring cleaning" was always a relative term in the Brown house when Lily was growing up. Bernadette would take a notion, some time in August, maybe, or around Halloween, or when there was snow on the ground, and all the cupboards would be emptied and every rug in the house would be hung up and beaten until everything tasted like dust ( Read more... )

It was always a good day when the democratic process had been carried out without a hitch, and this day was no exception. The results of the latest Island Council election were in and it was time to celebrate, not only the results but the process itself. And given the number of hardships they endured on the island, a celebration was something that ( Read more... )

There was makeshift canopy stretched out over the grass by the playground. Beneath it were some chairs for grown ups. There were a lot of fruit tarts and crispy, fried rice-things and then, of course, there was one larger cake. It had a dragon on it. Not a real one, though, Errol had surprisingly little interest in cake given his intense ( Read more... )

The problem with realizing that he'd been kind of a dick lately was that Lennox wasn't exactly good at apologizing. For most of his life he'd been friends with the same five people and they'd all understood that sometimes Lennox was just Lennox and he'd never had to apologize for much at all. That probably wasn't something to be proud of, he ( Read more... )

It was not an unfamiliar story that Charlotte Charles, formerly of Coeur d'Coeurs and now of Tabula Rasa, loved the simple things just as much as she loved the wild and chaotic. Prone to taking adventures without taking a step, she enjoyed the comfort that home provided both in thought and in existence ( Read more... )

There were some evenings when Emmy just would not settle down, no matter what he or Lily did. And maybe Eddie shouldn't have been indulging her the way he did, but Emmy was a good kid. She was sweet and enthusiastic and not spoiled. Definitely not spoiled. It was pretty hard to spoil a kid on the island anyway, Eddie figured. So indulging her in ( Read more... )