A Trip Down Memory Lane

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 Augie heeded my advice and went to speak to his dad Caleb about vampires.

 Caleb: "Hoo boy.  I guess it's time we had the talk..."

 Side note, the sunset in Forgotten Hollow is beautiful!

 Piper heard all about the new cat so she had to come along for cuddles, being a Cat Lover too.

 Meanwhile I was cuddling my grandson, Beckett.

 I got to use Super Efficient Baby Care for the first time on a baby that wasn't mine. 

 Back home in the pool, I accidentally discovered first-person camera mode and it turned out artsy.

 Evangeline serving looks.

 Indie being silly.

 Silly girls.

 Such cuties.

 Toddler butts.

 Iris on a jog.

 Meanwhile, Ralph had invited me over.  He said he had a surprise for me.  When I went over, I came across this!  My newborn grandson, Royce.  Here he is being fed by his mum, Izumi.  His dad is my 56th baby, Ralph.  I never even knew they were expecting!  

 Cuddles with nanna.

 I had the joy of aging him up, too!

 What a sweetie.

 Some random woman set me up on a blind date and I thought, why not?  I don't have any fathers lined up.  This was my date.  His name is Randolph Cowart. 

 The date was at Paddywack's Emporium in Magnolia Promenade.  There was this unsavoury charlatan there.  I had a sneaking suspicion that he was the one who turned Caleb and his sister Lilith.

 I started singing on the street, and people actually liked it!

 I found a skating rink nearby!  Seriously, I have probably only been to Magnolia Promenade once or twice - I need to go more often!

 I had a slip at the exact moment I found out that my halfway baby, Aiden, had passed away.

 Back home, everyone was sad.

 Bronte, who hates children, even hugged Augie!

 For some reason, Iris was being very cordial with the maid. 

I'd say that's more than cordial.

 Piper is trying to give Evangeline a bath whilst flirty Iris looks at herself in the mirror.

 I caught Bronte punching Blarffy.

 She sure had some choice looks for him.

Stinky but sweet.

 Meanwhile, over at the Bailey-Moons, Amelia had some news for Orange - they were expecting again!

 Amelia invited me over to tell me the good news.

 A swim with a view.  An incredibly low-resolution view, but a view nonetheless.

 I thought this was a cool addition to the affluent neighbourhood of Del Sol Valley.

 I was feeling nostalgic.  You may remember this humble abode - our first home.

 Opening the front door it was like I had stepped back in time.

I had no doubt that the dirty floor was caused by a fire we had before we moved.

Ah, the balloons from the many birthday parties we had.  I'm sure we had Sage and Kaya's birthday just before we moved (Babies 5 and 6!). Behind me is the high chair that my early children used.

The easel that kept us afloat in the early years...

The original kids' bedroom, turned into the toddler room.

 The original bathroom.

 The living area.

 The upstairs.  To think I managed to turn this little home in a three bathroom, four bedroom one.

 I spotted Louis walking past!

 We got a selfie.

 Gosh, it had been years since I'd been back to Willow Creek.  This definitely wasn't in our neighbourhood when we lived here.  How times have changed.

And then I remember this magical tree.  (side note - never noticed the shipping containers across the canal when we lived here!)

 I entered it.

 The glade was just a beautiful as I remembered.  I had been here twice before.

 There were pretty butterflies and creepy eyes.

Fishing, I came across a cowplant berry!  Finally!  I had found one once before - they were growing, strangely, in a plant box at the spice festival once.  I picked it but when I went looking for it later, it had disappeared from my inventory!

 I found this picture from the last time I was in Sylvan Glade.  My, look how different I was!  I was so big!  And I only had 10 children at this point.  Now I have 63 and I've reached physical perfection.  My, how I've changed.

 I rushed home to plant my cowberry before it could disappear on me again.

Little horns coming through!

 Bronte is out jogging.  Make no mistake, she's jogging out of fear - I am throwing my first toddler play date!

Helping little Royce on the slide.

 Indie goes down alone - look at the face on it!

 A bit of a crash landing and she's upset momentarily.

With my grandson Brielle, Amelia and Orange's daughter, who doesn't look very happy.  For some reason I couldn't invite Beckett to the toddler play date.  It would have been so cool to have five toddler cousins/aunts/niece/nephews playing together.  I'll have to throw another one before the twins age up. This is a rare occurrence that may never happen again!

 This is an angry pout.

 This is a sad pout.

And this is my daughter and my maid ruffling feathers in my bed.