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In the past few months, Zowy and the babysitter Pansy had become best friends. Finally Zo would be able to join Pansy in high school. With the beginning of high school, I was scared to death that my baby girl would start bringing home guys. She and I had become really close in the past few years and my protective nature only intensified.

Saffron had promised Zo that they would go shopping and to the salon the very next day for her make-over.

With two kids in high school and twin infants, a whole year flew by uneventful. Zach was still dating Emerson, and Zowy and Pansy were inseparable. The twins first birthday party was celebration at home with just Saffron and I present.

Junior grew hair just like his mom’s. He was a very messy little boy and he loved to go on walks outside.

Zek was more perceptive and cautious.

A teen night club in town had become a big hit for our kids, and we allowed them to go every Friday night. Zo never brought home a boy, but Pansy never left her side, either. I was getting suspicious,  after I heard her giggling and her telling someone that she loved them. I never caught her with a guy, and Zach said she only danced with Pansy at the club.

At the end of Zo’s 10th grade year, I discovered her secret lover. I was totally in shock. How could we have missed this? Our daughter had fallen in love with her best friend. We had missed something vital in Zo’s life.

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The years seemed to have flown by and soon Saffron and I were hitting middle adulthood. We had no clue that a night of celebration could turn almost deathly in seconds.

Everything went crazy so fast, I’m still not sure what happened that night. One minute we are in the middle of the Happy Birthday chorus to Saffy and the next everyone is screaming and smoke filled the room.

Luckily, we had enough of my fellow firefighters there to help put out the flames. When the smoke settled, I made sure all the children were accounted for.  Saffy was badly burned in the flames and had to be rushed to the ER.
She was forced to stay in the burn unit for several months, which left me to tend to the kids, alone. I visited her every night, and watched her heal.

When Saffron finally got to come home, we started trying for that last baby again.

The risk of another fire didn’t worry us as Zach’s 13th birthday drew closer. We couldn’t take away his opportunity for a party just because we worried about him. He aged into a very handsome teenager. Compared to my pictures at 13, we could have passed as twins. I definitely couldn’t deny him as my son.

Finally, after years of trying, Saffron finally became pregnant with our last child.

It only took one year in high school before Zach was bringing home a girlfriend. Emerson was a beauty, but her family was dirt poor and her cloths showed it. Zach begged his mom to help fix her.

Saffron refused to see a doctor, she thought she knew everything about being pregnant and wanted to have the child natural without the help from doctors. As she grew bigger and bigger I begged her to go. I thought for sure something was wrong with her.

It didn’t take long before we found out why she had been so huge.

Find out next time what happened to make Saffron’s pregnancy be different from her prior pregnancies.

“We have a baby girl now,” I told my wife as we walked home with our new baby.

“Zowy, is going to be one stylish little girl,” Saffron replied, with pride in her voice.

Zowy cooed and smiled back as her mother promised her all the dresses and make-up any girl could want. Zowy was excitable and fun. Unlike her brother who slept all the time, Zowy played and wasn’t scared of anything.

The new baby didn’t steal attention away from Zachary. He demanded it and we gave it to him. I was so proud of my wife.

When I saw that Saffron was calling me at work, I knew something was horribly wrong.

“What’s wrong?” I asked without saying hello.

“It’s your mom. She’s gone. Come home,” I heard her.

She had died peacefully in her sleep. No pain, just in peace.

When I got home, Saffron told me what had happened. I was devastated and upset and I took my sadness out on Saffron and after a few days she became very distant. I knew I had hurt her and I never meant to.

I was one lonely man after Mom’s death. With her gone and Saffron mad at me, I had nowhere to go. I had said things to Saffron that I never meant. She is a great wife and has changed her ways tremendously for our family. I finally got the nerve up to apologize.

“I’m sorry. I think you’re an amazing woman and have overcome a lot to be my wife. I’m sorry I made you think you were anything less than the best.”

“It’s fine, Stan. I’m just proud to have you as my husband. Thanks for loving me.”

That was that. We made up as easily as we had fought. We celebrated that night after the kids were in bed. We celebrated the life we ha made and all the time we still had left.

I took off work for a few days after Mom died. I needed the time with the kids and Saffron needed the time alone and to work. She was picking up regular clients and worked hard to keep them happy. I never knew how much those babies loved me until I heard their little voices saying DaDa all day.

On my time off we threw Zach a birthday party. He turned five that day and the search for schools started. He was happy and excited about going to school.

The day he started he wasn’t so excited. He was nervous and didn’t like his uniform. In fact, he HATED his uniform. We got him off on the bus and Saffron called three times during the day checking on him. He was, of course, fine every time. By the time he ran off the school bus, he was excited again. He did his homework all by himself.

It didn’t take long for him to make friends. I found him at the park pushing a little girl on a swing. They were both smiling and enjoying their selves. Saffron thinks he is too young to have girlfriends, but I don’t. He has to learn sometime.

“Ni-Ni Mumm-mi”

“Night Night sweet heart.”

I loved watching my wife tuck in the kids at night. As much as she says she doesn’t like children, she has a special way with ours. I made a perfect choice when I married her.

Zach spent a lot of time with his baby sister. He loved her. He helped his mom in the mornings by entertaining Zo while everyone else got ready for their day.

Every once in a while, Saffron would have an incident at work and her clients would throw a fit. I thought it was funny, but Saffron hated when she messed up. I promised her that everyone messes up a few times while their learning.

Zowy had her fifth birthday and started school with Zach. He has two years on her and he started 2nd grade. Saffy promised her a make-over as soon as she had an opening in her schedule. Work had picked up and she was working all the time now.

We wanted to try one last time for a baby. We had been trying for about three years and just couldn’t conceive. The doctors told us to keep trying. We didn’t want fertility treatment with the fear of having multiples.  So, we were woohooing every night with an agenda. I was surprised when Saffy agreed to try again. I think she likes kids more than she thinks.

What will Zowy look like with her new make-over? Will Saffy get pregnant again? Find out next time.

Enjoy,

K

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Mom tried her hardest to teach Saffron to cook. She had a lot of patience with her, even though Saffron was very easily distracted.

“You have to the cut up the veggies finely, or they’ll take a lot longer to cook. Saffron are you paying attention to me?”

“Oh yeh, sorry. I thought I saw a kitty cat outside.”

“Honey, there is no such thing as cats. You only see them and dancing bunnies on TVs. We don’t have animals here.”

Yup, this generation is going to be fun for sure.

Not only did Saffron learn to cook, she learned to enjoy cooking as well. Mom and her developed a very close relationship and they were inseparable.  Saffron even started showing a little excitement about becoming a mother.

The months flew by, with me building up my career and Saffron growing a baby and learning to cook and clean. It was a surprise the night Saffron went into labor.

Zachary was born that night. A beautiful little boy who loved to sleep. He slept day and night and woke up only to eat. He never cried. We had given birth to an angel. Saffron was a nervous wreck and cried more than Zach did.

“Hey Stan. I missed you today. Come look what I cooked for dinner,” Saffron greeted me this way every single day and I loved her excitement and eagerness to please me.

The house had become crowed when Zach was born. We still had my two sisters living with us and when Kate married her foreign boyfriend my youngest sister moved in with them. The house seemed a lot emptier after they moved out. I knew that I wanted to have another child soon.

It took some coaching, but soon Saffron got comfortable with Zach and we were able to leave her home alone with him without fear. She didn’t have a lot to do with him, but she at least took care of him and met his needs.

“Stan, I need to talk to you,” Saffron greeted me after work on Zach’s 1st birthday.

“What’s wrong honey?”

“I missed my cycle and I threw up this morning. Your mom bought me a home pregnancy test and it was positive.”

“That’s amazing news, honey. I can’t wait. Maybe it’ll be a girl.” I was super happy. We got pregnant without even planning on another child.

“How can you be so calm? I’m totally freaking out. I’m gonna get fat again, and how can I take care of two kids. I don’t even like kids.”

I finally calmed her down and after a few months she accepted the fact, but she wasn’t happy about it.

Zach’s party went great. He is such a handsome toddler. He is very smart, but still loves to sleep more than play. The doctors promise this is normal even for his age.

I had been working for Sunset Valley’s fire department for a good 2 years and had moved up the ladder at a very fast rate. I was offered a job that I couldn’t refuse. I was going to be the fire chief at Twinbrooks’ fire department. After a talk with Saffron and Mom we decided that we would all move to Twinbrooks and start our lives over there. I called a contractor and sent him some house plans and a house was built for us and we moved in during Saffron’s 7th month of pregnancy.

Saffron found the Salon the first day and went to talk to the manager for a stylist job. They insisted she take some classes with them and build up her portfolio, but they would hire her after she had the baby.

The labor of our second child went smoothly and soon we brought home our second child.

Find out next time if we had a boy, girl, twins, or triplets.

More excitement to come. Saffron is an amazing character to play.

Enjoy,

K

Traits:  Clumsy, Easily Impressed, Hydrophobic, Angler, and Good.

LTW: Perfect Aquarium

Spouse: None, friends with Karen

Stanley (Fire-Fighter)

Traits: Brave, Clumsy, Neurotic, Daredevil, and Family-Oriented

LTW: Fire-Fighter Super Hero

Spouse: Married to Saffron

Katelynn (Monster Creator)

Traits: Absent-Minded, Genius, Technophobe, Excitable, and Clumsy

LTW: Monster Maker

Spouse: None

Brianna (Future Athlete)

Traits: Excitable, Athletic, Absent-Minded, and Friendly

LTW: None

Spouse: None

Poll Closed

After gaining the angler the trait, he make a career in fishing. He signed with a company that bought fish. He would need to have 10 perfect fish in an aquarium for his life time goals to be completed.

Things were always breaking around the house and the repair man was always here. The first time we had a woman, Emmie jumped on the opportunity to talk with the lady.  Her name was Karen, and they hit it off immediately.

If Emerson wasn’t with Karen, he was talking to her on the phone. She became his best friend and he hers. They were inseparable, but neither mentioned the possibility of something more.

Next, was Stan’s party.  He invited a bunch of people, and they had an awesome time swimming. Poor clumsy Saffron.

As soon as Stan turned 20, Saffron fell into his arms. She had missed him so much. He asked her to move in with her right then and there so they’d never have to be apart again. I wasn’t so happy about this. She was snobby and stuck on herself. She thought she knew everything about anything.

After job searching on the computer, both Saffron and Stan found jobs. He started working his way up to becoming a firefighter and she a stylist. I was proud of them and encouraged their work.

On Stan’s first day, he was sent to fight a fire all by himself. He was already a pro and put it out effortlessly.

His handy skills were on the rise as he worked on the fire truck. He would end up mastering his handiness and athletic skills to thrive in this profession.

I decided that I wanted to go to France out of the blue. We were able to get plane tickets, and we all flew out there. Katelynn met Victor right as we got off the plane, and they were instant friends.

I didn’t have the mad skills that the generations before me had, and was electrocuted trying to disarm the first trap I touched. It was not a pleasant experience.

Stan decided that he and Saffron would camp out on the trip. She was such a snob and was too pretty for her own good. Stan wanted to rough her up a bit. He had other intentions as well. They had a good time and she actually enjoyed herself.

..and finally what I had been waiting for, he proposed and she said yes. WEDDING TIME!!!!

Stan and Saffron weren’t the only two with love on the brain. My special Kate finally kissed a boy for the first time and I was really excited for her.

Back home, the wedding was small and simple at the beach, but it’s what they wanted and we all were happy. The next day Kate finally graduated highschool and we threw her a birthday party.

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K

“Oh!! That wasn’t so bad,” he said after it was done.

“Mom knows best,” I reminded him.

After the make-over he invited one of his friends to the stadium for a late night concert. He forgot all about his friend when he saw a beautiful girl standing at the gate. Her name was Saffron Willow.

“You waiting on someone?” Saffron asked.

“No. Well just a friend,” Stan replied.

They stood there talking for hours. I had to call him around 10pm to remind him of his curfew. Much to my surprise, he brought Saffron home with him.

After a movie at home, he finally kissed her good night around dawn. My little boy had fallen in love in those few hours with Saffron, and I prayed she wouldn’t break his heart.

Birthdays were celebrated around the pool. The summer was turning out to be very hot, so family parties outside had to be spent in the pool or sprinkler.

Katelynn was growing up way too fast. She turned 13 and I cried. I couldn’t believe my special Kate was growing up. She started high school that Monday.

I was furious with Emerson. He didn’t even bother to come outside and watch his little sister’s birthday party. I went off to find him, and found him with Saffron’s sister, Amber. Those girls were starting to get on my nerves.

Even Stan was too busy to watch his sister grow up. Aren reminded me that they were teenage boys and were being completely normal.

Katelynn was a beautiful teenager. I knew she would go far in life.

Brianna planned on being on one of the sports teams when she got into highschool, and she began at 10  years old working out hard to achieve her goals.

Katelynn was still working hard to build her logic skills. She had secret plans, but we just didn’t know what they would be yet.

I didn’t think anything of it when Aren started complaining of chest pain. I blamed it on the spaghetti and sent him to bed with a few Tums. Later in the night I heard a crash. I felt for Aren, but he was gone.  I rushed down the stairs to find him clutching his chest and staggering about. The boys had awaken too and I screamed for them to call an ambulance. It all happened too fast and he collapsed. He had a massive heart attack, and if I had of seen the signs, I may have saved him. I was guilty and very upset.

The kids were heart-broken. We all just didn’t understand. He was 70 years old, but it felt like he was years younger. The kids tried to convince me that it wasn’t my fault, but it was no use. I slipped off into another round of depression. I hadn’t felt this bad and sad in years.

Brianna becoming a teen only made matters worse. I had no more babies. All of my children were now teenagers. Well, Emmie was about to graduate high school, but that didn’t help any.

Then there was the fact that I was about to turn 50, and that broke my heart more. My life was falling apart.

My girls talked me in for a makeover and I was pleasantly surprised that I didn’t’ look half bad. In fact, I looked about the same. I could handle that.

Katelynn had got on the chess club in highschool, and had made friends but she wanted something more. She wanted a boyfriend. A make-over is what she needed, so we all piled up and headed to the salon while the boys were fishing.

She hated the dress, but I told her she was beautiful.

Stan was sad to see that Saffron had graduated before him and was now 20 years old. She told him to find her when he graduated.

Other than girls, Stan liked chess too, and he played with Katelynn. They had fierce tournaments in our living room. I was so proud of them. I had begun to paint again, and the depression was wearing off.

I knew it was about time to choose my heir, and I wasn’t looking forward to choosing. I only had a few more years to decide.

We have one more chapter and then an heir poll, so be deciding who your favorite is.

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As soon as I got off the plane, I had people asking me if I was the Neverland’s grandchild. We were famous around these parts. I was instantly put on a search of special stones. There was a memorial service going on for a famous painter, and I was chosen to find the stones to build his monument with.

Back at home, special Katelynn was turning five and starting kindergarten.

Since she had mastered the logic blocks as a toddler, she was already ahead on her logic skill and jumped right into chess. We made sure to get her into the chess team at school. This is where it all began. I still swore she would do something special with these skills one day.

I was racking in the money now. I could paint a huge painting in one day, and I was making around 400 off each piece. I had signed with a great company.

My step-father, Khaled, after living 101 years has passed away. We will miss him dearly. He was a great grandfather to the kids, but he can join his wife in heaven now.

A funeral was held in honor of the wonderful Khaled, and I mourned for days after his death. I knew I had to pull it together, and I did soon enough.

Emmie suffered a bad fall off of the trampoline, and we couldn’t help but laugh at him. He had no injuries, but the fall was hilarious. I think it was the first time I laughed in the week after Khaled died.

My boss asked me to paint a picture of ninjas for a kid in Twins Brook and it turned out great. I made 800 off that one.

Stan and Bri’s birthday fell around the same time, so we had a double swimming birthday party. I was so excited to see Stan start highschool.

The children have aged up great. Aren and I are going to have a hard time deciding who should be heir.

Over the past few generations, Sunset Valley has changed. There are new shops and more jobs available now. One new shop is a salon. Roxie and I spent a whole Saturday trying on clothes and putting on make-up. She is going to be moving out soon, and I’m going to really enjoy having a baby girl to dress up.

Stan was growing up, and looked just like his older brother had. He was learning to walk and talk, and we taught him to say Kate. “Sissy, Kate,” he would say, as he rubbed my tummy.

When Kate was born, we were so excited. She was such a good baby. She was just so smart from the start. I knew there was something special about her. Aren assumed it was just because she was my first daughter, but there was something else.

When Emerson turned 5, my life got easier. Having 3 children under the age of 5 had taken a toll on my body. I was stir crazy, and Aren took me out on a date to celebrate Emerson starting kindergarten.

Not long after Emerson’s 5th birthday, I turned 45. I was officially a middle-aged adult, and I assumed I was done having children.

Aren made me go out and pamper myself, and I did. I may have come home looking like a house wife, but that’s exactly what I was. I never once had questioned or regretted choosing not to go to work. While reading the newspaper one day, I found an article about artists. I had been painting my whole life, and now I could sign a few papers and be a self-employed artist, so I took the opportunity.

Emerson was excited and nervous as he ran to meet the bus on his first day of school. He made a few friends, mostly girls.

Roxie was a lot of help, but she was only months away from turning 18. She planned on moving out as soon as she had her party. I would miss those extra set of hands.

Washing clothes had become a daily task and I finally had to break down and hire a maid to help me handle all of the housework and so I could spend time with the children.

Roxanne’s birthday came fast, and soon she was out on her own with  a secret goal to become a gold digger. She would marry old and rich.

My assumption of not having any more children proved to be wrong when I started feeling the familiar kicks of a baby growing. I was already 17 weeks pregnant when I found out and I was able to find out the sex of the baby. I was going to have another girl. This one we named Brianna.

Stan loved to play the xylophone for his mommy. My job as an artist wasn’t going so good with the kids still at home. I wanted to spend as much with these babies as I could, while they were still babies.

Kate grew up in no time. We had a quiet birthday at home with the guys. She aged up and learned to talk in the same day. She mastered the blocks in another day. I know this little girl is something special, I just can’t put my finger on it yet.

I gave birth to little Brianna by C-section and got my tubes tied. My age was showing, especially around my eyes.

Aren surprised us all and bought a jungle gym and a trampoline.  I was so excited for the kids to have something to play on. I just hoped no one broke an arm.

No arms were broken on the trampoline, but kids playing with washers ended in disasters. My laundry room was flooded and I grounded all of the kids, even baby Bri.

Finally, Stan was old enough to go to school and we threw him his 5th birthday. I was so happy to see Mom’s spirit there.

Then Emerson grew into a teen. He would start high school the same day Stan started kindergarten.

Aren and I hated Emmie’s style, but we kept our mouths shut. We had learned to choose our battles with the kids, and hair wasn’t a battle to fight.

Stan was the opposite and had his hair chopped off. He was a handsome boy, with those beautiful eyes.

Little Bri grew up all by herself. Being the baby sometimes meant less attention, especially when Mommy has bad boys to have to deal with. She is a beauty though.

What is so special about Katelynn? Find out next time. Don’t forget to check on A Berry Flowery A-Z Legacy, vote for heir there, and vote in the random poll.