The Things We Carry Home
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Charlotte Hook-Charming grows up loved loudly.
By her Mama who throws her into piles of blankets beside her brother and refuses to let her become afraid of her own body. By her Mommy who tracks temperatures, hydration, medications, winter forecasts, and every tiny shift in Charlotte’s smile without even noticing she’s doing it anymore.
Around them exists an entire tangled network of people who raise each other’s children halfway by accident.
Cookouts. Hospital rooms. Soccer games. Tea parties in crooked plastic crowns. Heating pads during movie nights. Popsicles melting down little wrists. Hazen and RJ bleeding somewhere in the background at all times.
Charlotte’s life is not small because her world requires extra care.
It’s just fuller.
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- Part 1 of The Things We Carry Home
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Chloe gets stuck at Auradon Elementary for a Saturday work obligation, leaving Hazel alone with Hazen and Charlotte for the day while she helps at Hook's Inlet and Shack.
Hazen spends the entire day one bad decision away from falling into the harbor. Charlotte eats melting strawberry ice cream on the back dock steps and quietly asks Hazel whether maybe she could take dance lessons like Poppy and Maddie Lucia.
By the time Hazel gets home smelling like seawater and sunscreen, Chloe is already half-awake researching adaptive ballet classes before either of them admits that’s what she’s doing.
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- Part 2 of The Things We Carry Home
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Charlotte’s first dance recital somehow turns into a full-family event.
There are bobby pins everywhere, Hazen screams from the audience the second Lottie walks onstage, Chad puts an eight-year-old in a headlock in the middle of the theater lobby, and by the end of the night Chloe and Hazel realize both of their children are beginning to build lives outside the small orbit of home.
Also, Hazen wants to become a croc wrestler.
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- Part 3 of The Things We Carry Home
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Hazen decides he needs three things immediately:
a croc wrestling club membership, fully blue hair, and older Serpent Prep boys to think he looks cool.Unfortunately for Chloe, he has already recruited Red into the operation, hidden box dye in his room for weeks, and convinced RJ and Manny this is basically a professional athletic career path.
Meanwhile Charlotte starts learning French ballet words at the kitchen table and quietly watches her entire family unravel over an eight-year-old wanting a haircu
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- Part 4 of The Things We Carry Home
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After frozen yogurt with Hazel, Charlotte notices a tired man sitting alone outside the shopping center and quietly asks if he has dinner. The rest of the evening unfolds softly from there: extra napkins, melting yogurt, KingdomCord arguments from the couch, and Chloe realizing something small but enormous about the person their daughter is becoming.
for my good friend ,eniro <3Series
- Part 5 of The Things We Carry Home
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After secretly watching an R-rated shark movie during a sleepover, Hazen, RJ, and Manny spend the next afternoon reenacting it in the Madrigal-Hatter pool with catastrophic commitment to realism. Unfortunately for everyone involved, Luca is two years old, wearing floaties, and is cast as “surfer.”
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- Part 6 of The Things We Carry Home
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The baby is the size of a little fish.
Charlotte takes this information very seriously.
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- Part 7 of The Things We Carry Home
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Captain Hook and Harry Hook need bait.
Unfortunately, this leads to Hazen Hook-Charming, RJ Hood , and Manny (Hatter) Madrigal being trusted with dirt bikes, a shopping list, and far more independence than Chloe Charming is comfortable with.
What starts as a simple run to CrownMart quickly becomes the most important expedition in Lost Boy history.
Featuring: candy theft, receipt obsession, homemade Colombian snacks, a hair-growing competition, one very stressed mother, and three boys who are absolutely convinced they are grown up.
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- Part 9 of The Things We Carry Home
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When Bridget offers to take Poppy, Charlotte, and Maddie Lucia out for a girls' day, the adults assume they'll get lunch and maybe a small treat. Bridget has very different plans.
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- Part 10 of The Things We Carry Home
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