The Berry Legacy

Along with my Hope family. I too lost the Berry family, but they have been reborn into a collaborative legacy.  The Blueberry Muffin Legacy.

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Once again my deepest apologies to my readers.

~Berry

With Baby # 2 on the way and little Aspen is now learning to talk. We have been talking about baby brothers and sisters. I don’t know if she fully grasps the concept, but she does know that when I say baby, she touches my tummy. It has to be the cutest thing ever! I wish mom lived closer so she wasn’t missing all these adorable moments.

Speaking of Baby, my brother is also having a baby, with Miss whats-her-name. I thought for sure we would find out her name now, but no. I told him he should be more careful, he just shrugged it off. He says he is really excited to be a father. I hear talk around town this may not be the only child he has. What am I going to do with him?

For once in my life I have chosen not to worry about my little bro. He is an adult now. If he wants 30 kids with 30 different women. It is none of my concern. All I have to do is looks at the little wonder that sits so sweetly in her room and plays with her teddy to know my life is good.

Well so far so good. Aspen is just a little bundle of sweetness. I haven’t dropped her once(my biggest fear). She has her fathers beautiful eyes.  He is so very proud, as am I. I think I am getting a hang of this Mother thing. I think I might be ready to let her sleep in her own room soon. Seeing her birthday is almost here and all.

Aspen’s birthday came and went and now she is just getting even more and more beautiful! Her hair is mostly black but there is a small bit of the Berry blue in there. I think its about time for her to have a couple more siblings. Yes definitely time. Michale and I will have to get working on that right away.

We are having the slightest(ok… HUGE!) Ghost problems. All the old Berry’s have been coming out for a visit and I for one am not a fan of unannounced visits. Especially the of the supernatural kind. I get so freaked, that I end up hiding in the closet till they leave. The other day Great Aunt Lily was in the house for hours. I finally had to sneak past her old room and hide under my covers.

These visits don’t seem to bother the rest of family. I guess I am just weird. Well what ever it may be.  I stay as far away from them as possible.  Michale says they are the nicest people and if I just game them a chance I would love them. NO thanks!

Hello my friends. Now I know you are shocked to hear from me,well I am shocked too! No my mother has not passed on. She and my father decided to move out of the house. I could not believe my ears when she gave me the news. I have to say I did not take the news too well. What will I do now? What if something happens with the baby and I don’t know what to do. Even worse what if something happens to the baby! Oh my little neurotic heart can’t so much stress. I begged her to stay, but she said she wanted to see the world.

Zach and Faith are still here, so the house is not completely empty. I can’t help but wonder what I did to push them away. I wonder if they will ever come back? I hope they will, but at this point I don’t see that happening. When my mom makes up her mind, that is that. *sigh* I guess all I can do now is prepare for the baby and keep up my writings. I am working on a Novel right now. Its coming along quite nicely. It could be a best seller I have a feeling…or a total flop. AHHHHHHHH! I need to take a breather.

*ahem* Ok I think I am good now. Zachariah has a new girlfriend. I wish I could tell you her name but I don’t know it. He has yet to introduce any of his ladies to the rest of us, and he has a lot of ladies… This one seems pretty serious though she is over in his guest house almost all the time. She seems nice enough, if you can tell that sort of thing from how a person walks. Well If I ever find out her name I will be sure to mention it.

Faith pretty much keeps to herself. Most of the time she is in her aquarium house, tending to her fishies. Yuck fish creep me out. One time I had to feed them for her and I almost had a panic attack. She has a flippin Piranha in there! Thats not safe! What if one day the baby puts its fingers in the bowl and that thing bites them off! Nope I don’t like it. Not one bit.

Michale is the only thing in the house that helps me to keep my sanity. I think he is the most amazing man I have ever met. I am so lucky to be his wife. He is so excited about the baby and I am too! When I start to worry he does his best to calm me down, but he worries just as much as I do! This makes for some long restless nights sometimes. I know in my heart we are going to be good parents. I just wish my head would listen.

Now that Zachariah is in high school and Faith is just about to graduate.  I am starting to notice Zachariah is acting differently. It started out with just his hair then the dark makeup. Now he is completely goth. I don’t know what happened. He use to be such a sweet happy boy and then. He hit puberty and Bam! It was like a total 180. His grades are suffering too. I ask him to do his homework and he just blows me off. SO RUDE!

Oh I was so excited about Serenity’s wedding. I completely forgot to talk about our group photo. Its the last photo that we have of Logan Actually. I don’t know why he always  insisted on wearing that creepy mask. Of course he had it on in the picture. Oh well. It kinda makes me smile now.

Serenity has been flittering about the house like a lovesick puppy. She just stops and stares at her ring and then she sighs. Ah to be young and in love. Speaking of young… I’m not anymore. It finally happened. I got old.

Yup aren’t we a gorgeous pair? I kinda kept this photo out of the wedding album. I didn’t want to ruin all of Serenity’s beautiful photos with my old ugly mug. I am sure she would understand.

A  lot of things happened before Serenity’s wedding. We lost Logan! That was so terribly sad. I know we had our differences, but still I loved him dearly. May he rest in peace.

Faith had her Birthday too. She is such a pretty young lady. Still active as ever. We built her a room off the back of the house so she can start an aquarium. She wants to have like 13 different species of fish. She is such a perfectionist, I’m sure she will not rest till she find the best specimens she can.

The Wedding was just Beautiful. The photographer was terrible though! I was very disappointed.  We did manage to salvage a few shots though.

Now I don’t know how the ex wife got here, but this shot is priceless! I tipped the photographer a little extra after I found this one.

Can you believe it!? Little Zach had his birthday already! My mom use to say kids grow up quick,   but I did not think it was this fast! He has the Berry hair too. Just like his Great Grandma Blue, he is having vision trouble. I had to take him to optometrist, after I noticed he was always having to squint when he watched TV.

He’s a very creative boy. He loves to paint with his uncle. I think he may be a great artist some day!

Faith is so active! She is always on the go.  Its hard to keep her home. Total opposite to her sister. Faith caught a huge Jelly fish the other day. She was so proud. I sent it away to have it mounted. She is going to be so surprised!

We have actually had quite a few birthdays in a not so long procession. Uncle Andrew and Uncle Logan and Serenity. Mine is next and it is not too far off. Not looking forward to growing old. -.-

Serenity and Michale are going to get engaged soon. She does not know it yet. But he came by the other day while she was out(Serenity out of the house?!) Ya that was a shocker in itself. Well anyways… Michale came by and asked Zachariah for his permission to ask Serenity to marry him. I thought that was so sweet! Zachariah was honored to be considered her father. I Approve!

Well when he did finally propose I am sure you can guess what she said! YES!! Oh I am going to have a son-in-law and a really nice one to boot!  Now to start planning!

Zachariah Jr. is growing up so fast! Pretty soon he will potty trained. Serioulsy where does the time go? Well it must go faster once you are out of high school, because my life seems to be just zooming by me! Faiths birthday is almost upon us. Can you believe that?!?! I really need to go buy her gift. I can’t quite decide what I want to get. Maybe that really neat doll I saw, or oh I know! That guitar playing her daddy played for her worked. She is quite a lover of music. Maybe I could get her that new CD she has been asking for… You would not think a toddler would even know what CD she wants, but there is this commercial for Sim Bop and she dances and laugh every time it comes on. Oh my I have completely forgotten what I was talking about. Oh Ya! Zachariah!

He is such a good boy.  I am glad he joined our family. I know at first I was a little negative, but he is definitely my special boy.

Faith’s birthday was a very quiet and cozy family affair. Unlike her older sister. Faith is very much into being outside. Which I am grateful for, I don’t think I could handle two neurotic children!

Faith is very much the tomboy of the family. She loves dark blue stuff. We went shopping to get her some new clothes. Everything she picked out was dark blue. All short and T shirts too. I tried to get her to buy this really super adorable dress. She was not having it. Oh well.

Now Faith loves to fish. If she is not at school or home doing home work she is at this little watering hole down the street. Its not too far from the house. I can acutally see her, if I step out on to the front porch.  Which I like. She is amazingly good angler. I can’t fish for squat and she will have like a whole bucket. Ya I don’t go fishing with her too often. Too embarrassing.

You are probably wondering what happened with the whole Jerri thing. Well it did not end well. Jerri was so angry with me, I tried to apologize, but that did not seem to work.  I really did feel bad, but he needed to know! How could she expect the poor guy to go through life unaware of his child. Rhonda was no longer allowed to come over and the only person we heard from was Jodi. Jodi said she didn’t care and thought her mom was totally crazy. So we saw her quite regularly until they moved. Yup just up and moved away. I couldn’t believe it. Maybe I will learn to keep my big mouth shut. 

Seems like everyone but me was excited about the arrival of my third child. I know that sounds completely horrible, but I thought my family was perfect just the way it was. But now that he is here I have to say he has grown on me. Man oh man I sound like the most awful mother when I speak that way.  My mother would be appalled to here that come out of my mouth.

I’m sure it is no surprise to you, as it was no surprise to me that Logan just loves him to death. The guilt I felt about Rhonda and Logan was just piling up. I don’t think I would be able to hold it in much longer. I loved Jerri, but I loved my brother even more. Jerri please forgive me for what I am about to do.

Well the scenario that played out in front of me was nothing like what I had pictured in my mind. I knew it was going to be ugly… ugly was putting it mildly. I think Logan’s heart broke right there in front of me. I honestly don’t think he believed me at first, but after I explained a few of my theories, he was on the phone faster than I could say “Alice is in so much trouble”. I listened intently from the other side of the door and then it got really quiet. I hurried my butt back downstairs so it looked like I was not being as nosy as I really was. Did not really matter though. Logan did not come out of his room for the rest of the night.

Now it may be hard to believe but Logan was the least of my worries. Andrew was so mad he was on the verge of tears. This worried me because my brother does not cry. I tried to calm him down, but I was not his favorite person on his list at that moment in time. Sheeesh lets just shoot the messenger.

Now I knew Serenity really hated the outside world when she was a child, but I  have to admit I was so hopeful as she got older that she would grow out of it. She did not. Now she is even more obsessive than before. After a meal she will go to the sink and wash her hands like 3-4 times! Her hands are clean but she still continues to wash. I feel so bad for her sometimes. She gets up like 4 hours before school, because that is how long it takes her for her morning routine. How frustrating that would be!

But she does have her normal teenage moments. She has a boyfriend named Michale, and she is definitely most at ease when they are together. She will even venture outside with him once and a while. Imagine that! Funny thing is. Michale is just like her. He also has this obsession with washing his hands.  Guess they are match made in heaven.

Zach just loves his little Faith.He loves playing for her. He takes his guitar to her room and plays her lullaby’s. I am not sure if she is smiling because of the music, but he likes to think so. He hopes if he gets her into music now she will be a music lover just like him. Maybe he is right. He had written her a special song for her birthday. He was so excited to play it for her.

Well the birthday was very nice and it worked out in two ways. We celebrated Faiths special day and since everyone was gathered, I decided this would be the best time to announce I was pregnant again! I was happy with two children, I really was not planning on having anymore, but I guess fate, or my inability to remember to take the pill, was saying otherwise. Here we go again…  -_-