When life hands you lemons... THROW THEM BACK!

 

As much as I didn't want to move, I knew we probably had to soon. The thing was, the kids were completely happy here, the next door neighbour was good friends with us and the kids had lots of space to run around and a lake nearby to go fishing. Yes, the school and town centre and beach was a little way away, but it took less than 10 minutes. Calista and Fergal got home from school and showed me a photo on their phone.

"It's a new plot of land. Right by the beach, and grandma's house. It's huge. Much bigger than this, but because they're only selling the land, it's not going to be loads of money mama. We could buy it and build up the house ourselves with a bit of help from Viridian."

I loved the look of the land and the location was perfect. Viridian and I were great friends so I phoned him up right away. Apparently, he'd already drawn up plans and was going to ask me if he could build it. He'd known about this before I had. So that was it. We were moving. And soon!!

Calista and Fergal would be leaving soon to find their own place and I couldn't help but think that Appaloosa Plains was being overrun with my children. Part of me wanted to move to the new town being built, but I wanted to be near my kids all the time. I could always move after my 100th child, if there was still enough room in this town.

I got a call later on, asking me to come round to my daughter Hadley and Sookie's house. It was huge and I couldn't believe I'd never visited before. Inside the house, Hadley sat on the sofa with her girlfriend (yes, girlfriend), Sofia Martingale. In front of them, there were three toddlers. I raised an eyebrow, not sure how they had got there. Sookie hadn't got a boyfriend and they looked nothing like her anyway. Hadley had Sofia.

"How?"

"They developed this new experiment... a trial run to see if they could produce children with cells from both 'parents' and well, Sofia and I wanted kids. So we agreed to try and we got these three! Meet your grandchildren mama. Harry, Eliza and George."

All three children were pretty much identical, but Eliza and Harry were vampires and George was a human.

 

 

(Everytime I tried to get a photo of George, he wasn't there. I'll have to get that later!!)

 

Austin, Fergal, Calista and I taught the quadruplets how to walk and talk. Fergal took Pugsley...

 

 

Calista got Fester...

 

 

I had Wednesday...

 

 

and Austin got Gomez.

 

 

I finally got to meet my other grandchildren, Lola, Lacie and Lance and feel the baby inside Hallie. I couldn't wait for her fourth (and probably last) child and hoped she was doing well, considering she wasn't with Drew anymore.

 

I read a cooking book to Lola...

 

 

and met Bronson, Hallie's fourth child.

 

 

Calista and I went out to a family party at Hadley's that night. Hallie, Aislinn, Caden, Loretta, Grim and Benni were there. Calista and I loved spending time together, it seemed like we were best friends rather than mother and daughter. So now I had two best friends called Calista! We got home and took photos in the photo booth for a memory before they had to leave. They would be aging up the next day, after prom.

 

 

Everything broke the next morning as the kids went off to school, so I had a cleaning spree... in my formal wear apparently.

 

 

That afternoon, the kids played in the pool with Tamsie and I set about doing up my garden again.

 

After the pool party, Tamsie needed a major brush and clean from all the chlorine.

 

 

At 6pm, Calista, Fergal and Austin headed to prom in their limo. 

 

 

None of them had dates, but Fergal came away with a lovely girlfriend in Becka Riches. Calista was prom queen and Fergal was prom king. Just before the kids left, they wanted to show me the brand new house. It was huge and beautiful.

 

 

 

Pet Room

 

 

Living Room

 

 

 

Bathroom

 

 

Dining Room

 

 

Entrance

 

Kitchen

 

 

View to the indoor pool

 

 

Indoor Pool

 

 

Back garden

 

 

My bedroom

 

 

 

My bathroom

 

 

Girls Room

 

 

Boys Room

 

 

Baby Room

 

 

View from balcony

 

 

 

I came in the hallway to find Tamsie playing dead.

"Get up you silly thing."

To which she barked happily and chased her tail.

 

 

Next morning and it was Calista, Fergal and Austin's last day in the house. Calista did her homework before school started.

 

 

While I made some eggy bread. I was sad to see these three go. It seemed like they'd been with me for the longest, and having Calista grow up was like losing my best friend. She looked a whole lot like her grandma and it reminded me I hadn't seen any of the challenge mothers for a while. As if they knew, Ashby invited me to a party that night.

 

 

After the party, I headed round my children's houses to see how they were doing and met my other two new grandchildren.

 

Jess; Scott & Kelly's daughter. First Child.

 

 

Chin-Han; Aislinn and Benni's son. First child.

 

 

My toddlers all aged up into children before the three teenagers left.

 

Fester.

 

 

Pugsley.

 

 

Gomez.

 

 

Wednesday.

 

 

And the last thing we did as a family?

 

PLAYED IN THE BRAND NEW POOL!

 

 

 

 

 

<3

 

 

 

 [sorry there were no babies this time, should be next time!!]