DW’s name: [name]Hope[/name] [name]Cara[/name] [name]Dawson[/name]
DH’s name: [name]Jack[/name] [name]Thomas[/name] [name]Dawson[/name]
Year of marriage: 2015
2016: (10) They get a kitten and a puppy! After a year of marriage [name]Hope[/name] and [name]Jack[/name] are still very much enjoying time with just the two of them, and don’t yet feel ready to have a family, but they definitely feel as though their home is a bit lonely and could do with some extra love. They decide to get both a kitten and a puppy. The kitten is white and grey and named [name]Molly[/name], their dog is a husky cross named [name]Odin[/name].
2017: (1) A year after the new arrivals in the family, [name]Hope[/name] and [name]Jack[/name] decide to move into a new, bigger house. Their old house was starting to feel cramped, even with just the 2 of them and the pets, so they decide to move further into the country where they can afford a larger house, with a beautiful garden. It seems like the ideal home for starting a family in too. This is what it looks like:
2018: (10) After moving into the new house, [name]Hope[/name] and [name]Jack[/name] enjoy decorating it and making it feel like a proper home. They decide that the spare room would make a perfect nursery, and finally feel ready to have their first baby. After 3 months of trying, [name]Hope[/name] becomes pregnant. 9 months later they have a beautiful baby boy named [name]Tobias[/name] [name]Jack[/name] [name]Dawson[/name] “[name]Toby[/name]”.
2019: (1) When [name]Toby[/name] is only 6 months old, their perfect home starts to feel not so perfect. The house needs a lot of work doing, and seems to be falling apart, and having [name]Toby[/name] means neither [name]Hope[/name] nor [name]Jack[/name] have much time to spend fixing it up. With the help of [name]Hope[/name]'s parents, they buy a much newer built house that is in perfect condition. It looks like this:
2020: (2) [name]Just[/name] before [name]Toby[/name]'s second birthday, [name]Hope[/name] finds out she’s pregnant again! They weren’t trying, but are delighted by the surprise. They have plenty of room for another little one, and are excited to give [name]Toby[/name] a sibling. 9 months later they have a little girl named [name]Mabel[/name] [name]Sophia[/name] [name]Dawson[/name].
2021: (5) When [name]Mabel[/name] is 5 months, and [name]Toby[/name] 3, [name]Jack[/name] is offered a role at a very prestigious accountancy firm, the only catch is, that it’s another city. [name]Jack[/name] would be working full time and doesn’t feel happy leaving the children back in another city with [name]Hope[/name], nor does he think it’d be feasible to travel between the two, even just for the weekends. So after much discussion, the family move to a new city; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They’re both upset to be moving house yet again, especially when the last house seemed so perfect for them, but [name]Jack[/name]'s career is very important to him, and [name]Hope[/name] is very proud of him. This is their new house:
2022: (6) [name]Hope[/name] and [name]Jack[/name] are very settled in their new home and [name]Jack[/name] is getting on well at work, whilst [name]Hope[/name] is still a SAHM to 2 year old [name]Mabel[/name] and 4 year old [name]Toby[/name]. About once a week, [name]Jack[/name] and [name]Hope[/name] have a date night, where they get some much needed time together, whilst a local girl, 18 year old [name]Hayley[/name], looks after the kids for the evening. [name]One[/name] night they return home to find [name]Hayley[/name] in tears, [name]Hope[/name] comforts her and asks her what’s wrong, whilst [name]Hayley[/name] confides in her that she found out she’s pregnant. She immediately says she can’t keep the baby and blurts out that she wishes the baby could stay with [name]Hope[/name] and [name]Jack[/name], as she’s seen what wonderful parents they are, and knows that she couldn’t offer the baby a stable lifestyle. They have very serious conversations for months after this, including [name]Hayley[/name]'s parents, and everyone agrees that the baby would be best with [name]Hope[/name] and [name]Jack[/name], as [name]Hayley[/name] has big plans for college. [name]Hope[/name] and [name]Jack[/name] are shocked that [name]Hayley[/name] really wants to give them her baby, but they’re delighted she trusts them so much, and are thrilled to be able to give the baby a loving home, and [name]Mabel[/name] and [name]Toby[/name] another sibling. [name]Hayley[/name] gives birth to a baby girl, and [name]Hope[/name] and [name]Jack[/name] welcome little [name]Nancy[/name] [name]Anabel[/name] [name]Dawson[/name] into their family.
2023: (4) [name]Nancy[/name] settles perfectly into the family, and [name]Mabel[/name] and [name]Toby[/name] love her to pieces. When she is 7 months old, the whole family go away for a few days to visit both [name]Hope[/name] and [name]Jack[/name]'s parents. When they return [name]Hope[/name] is very sick, putting it down to having eaten something bad whilst away, or just the stress of travelling, she tries to ignore it. But when she’s still feeling just as bad, if not worse, even a week later, [name]Jack[/name] forces her to go to the doctor. A test immediately confirms she’s pregnant, but she never felt so ill with her other pregnancies! The doctors send her for an early scan, just to make sure everything is ok because of how ill she’s been feeling. At 9 weeks pregnant, [name]Hope[/name] finds out she is expecting twins! [name]Jack[/name] and [name]Hope[/name] are shocked, having twins with such a small baby around is definitely going to be hard work, but they feel very lucky to be having twins! [name]Hope[/name] gives birth to twin boys named [name]Max[/name] [name]Oscar[/name] [name]Dawson[/name] & [name]Joel[/name] [name]Leo[/name] [name]Dawson[/name].
2024: (8) [name]Toby[/name] is now 6, [name]Mabel[/name] 4, [name]Nancy[/name] 2 and the twins are just 6 months, when [name]Hope[/name] misses a period. She had been feeling very run down recently, but put that down to having 3 small children to take care of, but a home pregnancy test quickly confirms her suspicions. She’s pregnant again! For once, [name]Hope[/name] is actually quite scared to tell [name]Jack[/name], they already have 5 children and he’s been stressed with work as it is, but she knows she can’t hide it from him. But as soon as she tells him, her fears disappear, he doesn’t even show a sign of disappointment and is ecstatic to be welcoming another little life into their family. Their first scan reveals that they’re having not one, but two babies again! Although born 2 months early, they have 2 healthy baby girls, named [name]Lola[/name] [name]Lorelei[/name] [name]Dawson[/name] & [name]Josephine[/name] [name]Iris[/name] [name]Dawson[/name] “[name]Effie[/name]”.
2025: (6) [name]One[/name] day whilst [name]Jack[/name] is at work and [name]Hope[/name] is at home with [name]Nancy[/name], [name]Max[/name], [name]Joel[/name], [name]Lola[/name] & [name]Effie[/name], the phone rings, it’s [name]Hayley[/name]. [name]Hope[/name] is immediately panicked by the desperation in [name]Hayley[/name]'s voice as she says that she needs to meet up with her. [name]Hope[/name] wonders if she’s wanting to meet [name]Nancy[/name] and has a sinking feeling that she’s going to tell her something crazy like she regrets ever giving up her baby girl. [name]Hayley[/name] is back from college for the summer, so she and [name]Hope[/name] arrange to meet up for a coffee when [name]Jack[/name] is home from work to look after the kids. She can tell that [name]Hayley[/name] has been crying the moment she sees her, [name]Hope[/name] asks what’s wrong and all [name]Hayley[/name] says is “I need my baby to be with its big sister”, “you’re pregnant?!” questions [name]Hope[/name]. [name]Hayley[/name] nods and the tears begin streaming again. [name]Hope[/name] is shocked and wants to ask [name]Hayley[/name] how it happened, but feels perhaps [name]Hayley[/name] won’t want to talk about it whilst she’s this distraught. [name]Hayley[/name] opens up to her anyway, confiding that she met someone at college who she had an on-off relationship with for a couple of months, he was abusive and she’s too scared to tell him she’s pregnant. [name]Hope[/name] and [name]Jack[/name] talk, and agree to adopt [name]Hayley[/name]'s second baby. This time she has a boy, he looks just like [name]Nancy[/name], they name him [name]Harry[/name] [name]Casper[/name] [name]Dawson[/name].
2026: (10) [name]Hope[/name] and [name]Jack[/name] are sure they’re done having children now that they have 8! When [name]Harry[/name] turns one, they decide to have a big holiday and take the whole family travelling, along with the grandparents, for a month.
The family:
DH: [name]Jack[/name] [name]Thomas[/name] [name]Dawson[/name] (35)
DW: [name]Hope[/name] [name]Cara[/name] [name]Dawson[/name] (33)
DS: [name]Tobias[/name] [name]Jack[/name] [name]Dawson[/name] “[name]Toby[/name]” (8)
DD: [name]Mabel[/name] [name]Sophia[/name] [name]Dawson[/name] (6)
DD: [name]Nancy[/name] [name]Anabel[/name] [name]Dawson[/name] (4) [adopted]
DS/DS: [name]Max[/name] [name]Oscar[/name] [name]Dawson[/name] & [name]Joel[/name] [name]Leo[/name] [name]Dawson[/name] (3)
DD/DD: [name]Lola[/name] [name]Lorelei[/name] [name]Dawson[/name] & [name]Josephine[/name] [name]Iris[/name] [name]Dawson[/name] “[name]Effie[/name]” (2)
DS: [name]Harry[/name] [name]Casper[/name] [name]Dawson[/name] (1) [adopted]
