Something magic comes over all who celebrated Boxing Day at the Peacock. Whether from the bathroom intervals or just the spirit of the season, the couples find themselves finishing off the holiday in unique ways. oOo At home that evening, as John stands n...
Monday morning and Christmas is over. Today though is Boxing Day. Tim and Abbie linger in bed as neither have to go to work today. Over at Les and Phoebe’s, that is not the case. Phoebe needs to be at the Wilde Peacock early. There is much to get ready fo...
All bundled up against the snow, Matt, Martha, and Timara arrive at Tim and Abbie’s house around four in the afternoon. The snow isn’t coming down that hard, and there is only about two inches on the ground. What is falling leaves cute tiny droplets on Ti...
Brian and Mark have invited Mark’s mother and sisters and their partners over for dinner after church on Christmas Day. It is the first time they will see Brian and Mark’s home. Only Jennifer has been there for a fleeting visit, but not the others. Christ...
Tim and Abbie get up and get going. There is much to do today. Abbie cleans herself up from her cat outfit as Tim heads downstairs to start dinner. As he goes, Tim tells Abbie to put the cat suit away carefully as he would look forward to a return engagem...
Come morning, more surprises are awaiting Grace. Waking leisurely, snuggling together, Grace asks Sam how he managed to get this house together for them and everything? He tells Grace about it and how it worked out so easily. Especially this last month, w...
Before you know it, Christmas arrives. Well, first Christmas Eve. Abbie is over-excited. It is the first time since she was little that she has someone to share it all with and a home to have a real tree in to decorate. She does go a bit overboard, but Ti...
It is over dinner one evening in November that Sarah has an outburst. A little over a month before her and Peter’s wedding. Everything seems normal as the three, Sarah, Peter, and Tracy, are eating plates of ravioli. Then, suddenly, Sarah throws down her...
Patti and George's announcement comes at the start of November. Two of the three women are in happy and stable relationships now. But there remains Jennifer. Jennifer is a quandary for Brian. At forty-two, she is close to his own age and has lived a rathe...
Meanwhile, next in line is Patti and this interesting George at the church. Patti has poo-pooed all of George’s attempts over the past few years. It appears that he thinks Patti is a desirable woman and that her husband was not worthy of her. Since he fin...
Brian does not forget his promise to himself after the first dinner with Mark’s mother and sisters. Well, the girls, no, now definitely women at forty, deserve to meet men who will cherish and care for them. Their youth and young adulthood were totally ru...
After all the excitement of Timara’s birth, Mark coming out, and Les and Phoebe moving in next door, things begin to calm down by mid-October. The weekly Thursday dinners continue, as do the football night at the sports bar. Timara’s baptism occurs durin...
Driving to pick up her car left at Abbie and Tim’s the night before, Sam tells Grace about the game the day before and how awesome everything had been. But more than the food, drinks, and great football game; the talk between Luke, Tim, Brian, and him ab...
Earlier in the week, Brian called Tim, inviting him and the rest of the ‘gang,’ including Sam, to a football game on Saturday. Not just any football game but a match between ‘their team’ and the one that Brian roots for. They are terrific seats as they...
Things are not always rosy between Tim and Abbie. Well, actually, they are still rosy, but in a quite different way sometimes. Things have gone well for a couple of months now, and Abbie has not been across Tim’s lap for discipline. Tim almost thinks th...
