March 24, 2018- My Recap of the past 12 years (Piper)

One of the four most important moments of my life happened on January 6, 2007. I had my daughter, Prudence Melinda Halliwell at 7:45 in the morning, of course the other three events being the births of Wyatt and Christopher and my wedding day. When she started school she was tested for the gifted program and we found out that she was a borderline-genius. She is now in the fifth grade and she's taking eighth grade classes.

Wyatt is in the ninth grade and he's dating a junior. He's as charming as his father and as smart as his mom, if I may say so myself. He is an absolute bookworm and he wants to be an author when he gets older.

Chris is just the opposite of his siblings. He is into absolutely every sport possible. With football and cross-country in the fall, basketball in the winter, and track and baseball in the spring, on any given Friday, Wednesday, or Thursday, I'm at some game, match, or meet. Not only is he in every sport, but also he excels at every sport. He's the youngest person to be on high school JV football and he is a starter in middle school baseball and basketball.

Leo is as handsome as ever while he is buried in paperwork and test papers and schedules from Magic School but he loves it. As the headmaster and the teacher of three subjects, he stays pretty busy, but we have the weekends to ourselves. We send the kids off to Aunt Phoebe's or Aunt Paige's or Aunt Billie's and we have the whole manor to ourselves.

I closed down P3 in early 2009. With three kids, I figured that I needed to be home at night helping with homework and fixing dinner instead of micromanaging a nightclub. In that year's time when I was jobless, Leo took up the slack and got a job as a legal secretary with Paige at a prestigious law firm in the city. I worked at a French cuisine restaurant called Fantasmé as a line cook and my superior was as much of an asshole as my original boss at The Quake so many years ago. I quit and I hit the pavement again. I opened the paper one morning and saw an announcement that The Quake was closing down and I took that as a sign from God. I talked to a real estate agent and six months later, I had a restaurant. Incantervolé is a French fusion restaurant and for the first year, I was the head chef. When all of my kids got in school, I hired a head chef, a manager, and two new bartenders and I tried my best to let go. I was now only the owner but when I felt like it, I sent Shane, the head chef, home for the rest of the day (paid of course) and I took over cooking. The president, the mayor, and many famous people have eaten at Incantervolé.

After we dealt with the Triad, the Ultimate Power, and the general population of demons, my sisters, myself, and our litter of children were demon light for a long while. I mean, there was still the occasional Grimlock or Banshee but there were never any serious threats. We had time to sit, develop our powers a bit more, and write in the Book.

Speaking of developing powers, I found a new one in 2011. There was a Brute demon terrorizing a young practitioner in a dark alley (will they ever learn?) and Paige and me were kicking ass. I finally got the opening to blow it up and just as I gestured, instead of blowing up in fiery chunks, the demons dark skin glowed red and he smoked. I had a warm feeling in my stomach and I couldn't let my hands down. The more I focused, the more the demon smoked and charred and burned. The demon fell and the smell was horrible. Paige almost threw up and we left. She asked the elders and low and behold, I had a new power. I could make the molecules of an objects move around just enough to melt, burn or cook, instead of exploding. I spent the next month or so training and exercising my abilities and by now, I have a handle on all of them. I never have to worry about cold tea anymore and if the power goes out, I can still cook a five-course meal.

Wyatt's powers, or should I say, power is very complicated. Wyatt can mimic powers of those around him but instead of the powers fading over time, like Warlocks' do, his stick around and advance like a base power. He first absorbed a random witch that I probably bumped into on the street's power of force fields in the womb. He copied Healing from his daddy or his Auntie Paige and with every witch he comes into contact with, his powers grow. Chris, being a Witch-Elder, had the power of Telekinesis since birth. As he got older, it evolved into Tele-Orbing and as he came in to adulthood, he took on all of his elder powers. He is very powerful in his own right. Melinda has the least complex abilities but she is no less powerful than Wyatt or Chris. She, just like her mommy, can manipulate molecules. She can freeze things and she has just begun to start blasting things. Unlike me though, she controls her powers with her eyes, something, that I have never been able to do. The kids go to Magic School during the summer and work on their powers. They make A's and the occasional B from Chris. The restaurant was going great and I and Leo weren't fighting at all. Life was awesome… until the demons came back.