For every dark night, there is a brighter day -- Fall 1983

I laughed.  "I'm not as worried about a mini-me, though.  I can handle that -- I went through it, remember?  It'll be Dean that will be the tough one," I said, sighing.  "It will definitely be interesting to say the least.  Do you think that your little man will be a mini version of you?"

I smile at her.  "Well, at least you'll have help to deal with mini-SIrius," I told her.  I ran a hand through my hair, sighing. "I do believe that Max will be every little bit of me as Dean will be of Sirius... I just know how to handle that -- I went through it."  Yes, I did use her words to prove my point.

I rolled my eyes at JEremy for repeating my own words at me.  "Hopefully you'll be able to.  From what I understood from back then, you were quite a handful compared to Ryleigh," I pointed out ot him.

I grinned in spite of myself.  "Yeah, that's very true" I said, though I never felt like admitting it.  "But I do look forward to it.  I hope he keeps me on my toes."

"Well, you have fun with Max.  I am not sure if I'll be having fun with Dean and Elena' I said, shaking my head.

I laughed and shook my head at her.  "Oh, you know you'll have fun.  Well, at least until the teen years," I said, furrowing my brow slightly.  "I don't think either one of us would be enjoying that."

He definitely had a point on that one.  "I don't even want to think about that," I said simply.  "Thankfully we've got years to go."  I did not even want to think about my two little babies growing up.  I wanted them to stay little forever... so that way their dad could see them grow up...

I nodded at her.  "Yes... though, they can get a bit bigger.  I'd prefer Max to get to a potty-trained stage... I hate diaper duty.  And I don't even have anyone to argue with about who gets to do it," I said, chuckling slightly.  It was a force of habit.  I had to chuckle or it would really weigh on me that Max no longer had his mum.

I laughed and nodded with him.  "That was the roughest part when Lenni came along, too.  I had two of them... though Dean was getting closer to the potty trained stage... I sitll had to go through two of them in diapers and Sirius gone," I said, shaking my head.  "That has to be the worst part of having kids."

I laughed.  "Yeah, but the rest of it makes the diaper changing not so bad," I said, musing and thinking about all the laughs and good times I already had with my little Max.  I knew there would so many more to be had with my little man.  I could not wait.

I sighed.  "Well... I'm sure on some days I could debate that," I teased, knowing that he knew that I loved my children dearly.  it was just a parent thing to want to scream about the kids when they got really bad sometimes.

I grinned at her.  "Yeah, I know what you mean," I said, sighing.  "We should try to catch up more often than a handful of years after school," I pointed out to her.  It was really nice talking to Ember again.  I just wondered if she would ever get over Sirius and want something more -- it had been two years after all.

I nodded, putting a hand on his arm.  "Yeah, that would be nice," I said to him, smiling.  "Our kids can entertain themselves... just keep them locked in a childproof room and we can have margaritas."  I laughed slightly at the thought.

I laughed and shook my head.  "That would be exactly what we would need -- especially for our three kids," I pointed out to her.  I bit my lip slightly before I had to ask something.  "Do you ever get to see your nephew?"  I was not sure if that would be crossing hte line -- but he was the only thing she had left of her brother.  I hoped that she did.  I did not know everything, but rumors were that Dumbledore hid him from the Wizarding world.

I rolled my eyes and shook my head. "Never," I said.  "I hate Petunia... I understand the reasons why he's there... but I should sitll at least be able to see my nephew."