Chapter 1

A crazy start to the New Year

It was New Year's Eve and like every year the Halliwell's had planned a party. Prue Halliwell who was three months pregnant was helping her husband Andy set the table. Their three year old daughter Payton was playing with her one year old brother Preston.

Prue's younger sister Piper Halliwell was cooking the meal with her husband Leo. Their ten year old son Wyatt and six year old daughter Melinda were helping. Meanwhile their nine year old son Chris was watching TV in the living room.

Prue and Piper's younger sister Phoebe was changing the diaper of her newborn baby Patty. Phoebe's husband Coop was placing crystals around the house with the help of their two older daughters: P.J. age six and Parker age four. When Phoebe finished with Patty she placed her in the living room play pen then summoned Grams and her mother Patty from the dead.

Prue, Piper and Phoebe's younger half-sister Paige Matthews and her husband Henry were cleaning up the tooth paste their kids had put all over the sink. Their six year old identical twin daughters Tamora and Kat were in their room jumping on their beds. Their five year old adopted son Henry Jr. was watching TV with Chris. In her room Christy Jenkins was getting dressed for the party. The families' English springer spaniel Belle was following her owner P.J. around.

Shortly before five the party began when the guests arrived. Darryl and Sheila Morris arrived with their sons: Mikey age fourteen and Darryl Jr. age eleven. Then came Christy's sister Billie along with her husband Austin and their one year old daughter Ginny. Next to arrive was Phoebe's boss and close friend Elise who brought along her sister Rebecca and her six year old niece Alyssa. The last to arrive was Prue, Piper and Phoebe's father Victor Bennet and Paige's father Sam Wilder (who was a white-lighter.)

The party quickly started going downhill. Preston had bitten Patty who was crying on the top of her lungs and Preston was screaming because Prue was holding him and he didn't like it. Payton stole her teddy bear away from Parker who was playing with it. In Revenge Parker stole it back and hit Payton, which got her a time out. Henry Jr. was trying to play with his sisters who were ignoring him. So he began getting frustrated and smacked them on the back of their heads.

However after a few meltdowns, crying fits and time outs, the children were playing nicely with each other. As thing began to calm down it was time to eat. Everyone gathered in the kitchen for the toast before diving into the meal.

"I can't believe 2013 is already over, it has been one crazy year. Finding Billie's long lost sister and brining her home, adding baby Patty to the family with another on the way. Let us hope that 2014 will be calmer yet bring dreams alive, to 2014" Piper made the toast and raised her glass.

"2014" everyone else said as they raised their glasses.

After supper the children played with the occasional fight or meltdown. The adults talked with the occasional child discipline or baby caring. By eight baby Patty, Preston, Ginny, Payton and Parker were up in their rooms fast asleep. Then by nine Henry Jr. the twins, Alyssa, Melinda and P.J. were passed out as well. Wyatt, Chris, Prue, Phoebe and Coop made it till 11:45 then gave in and fell asleep in the living room.

"Ok Everyone it's time for the countdown" Henry stated.

"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…Happy New Year's" Everyone shouted.

After that was over most of the guests went home or returned to the spirit realm. Billie, Austin and Ginny stayed at the manor overnight since both Billie and Austin were too tired to drive home. Everyone slept in the next morning, which for this family was highly unusual.

On Sunday night after the kids had gone to bed the adults gathered at the kitchen table as usual. It was time to go make the schedule for the following week, concerning who was staying home and work hours. They did this every Sunday to remain a structured household.

"Ok so I work on Tuesday from 8 to 4, Wednesday from 8 to 4:30, Thursday from 9 to 3, Friday from 9 to 5, and Saturday from 11 to 3" Prue stated.

"As usual my work schedule is whenever my charged call me" Andy said.

"I work on Monday from 8 to 6, I have Tuesday off, on Wednesday I work 8 to six, Thursday 8 to 5, Friday 11 to 8 and Saturday from 8- 9" Piper went over her schedule.

"From Monday to Friday I work from 7- 3 and that doesn't include time for marking, but I have Saturday off" Leo said.

"Well I have to be at the office on Monday from 8-4, on Tuesday from 6 to 3, I have Wednesday off, On Thursday I can work from home, on Friday I'm at the office from 7- 5, and on Saturday I can work from home" Phoebe informed.

"As usual I'm home all week" Coop reminded them.

"My only day off this week is Thursday" Paige stated.

"My only day off is Friday" Henry revealed.

"Ok so tomorrow Prue, Andy and Coop will be at home with the babies, on Tuesday it will be myself, Andy and Coop, on Wednesday Phoebe, Coop and Andy, on Thursday Phoebe will be here for emergencies and Paige will be here with Andy and Coop, then on Friday it will by Henry, Andy and Coop, on Saturday Phoebe, Coop and Andy" Piper stated and all agreed.

The next morning the working adults got up earlier than the others and got ready for work. At seven it was time to wake up the children. Wyatt and Chris got up by themselves and orbed down to the kitchen were they made themselves cereal. Prue got up and woke up Payton then had her orb them down to the kitchen where she made Payton her breakfast. Coop woke up Henry Jr. Parker and the twins and beamed them down to the kitchen. Andy got Melinda and P.J. up, beamed them down to the kitchen, got Preston and Patty out of their cribs and orbed down to the kitchen with them.

After breakfast the working adults left for work after hugging their children. Andy took the babies upstairs for diaper changes. Christy went to help him since she was bored being in her room all the time. The older kids went to get ready for school, while Prue and Coop had to help Henry Jr., Parker and Payton with this task.

Once the kids were ready to go Andy walked the elementary school kids to the bus stop. Coop drove Payton to pre-school while Prue was at the manor changing diapers. All of the sudden Prue felt sick and raced to the bathroom. Her morning sickness had been very bad so far in this pregnancy.

Prue returned to her room and continued with the diaper changed. By the time she was done and had the babies dressed and in the playpen Andy and Coop were both home. As Prue started the house work she had to race to the bathroom again. Since that morning wasn't agreeing with Prue, Andy took over the housework.

Usually with most of the adults a school and only two out of the twelve kids at home, things were usually calm and somewhat easy. However that day proved them wrong, starting with what came next. Prue managed to cog the toilet and when trying to fix it caused water to spray out onto everything.

Prue went to the cabinet for a towel but realized they were all in the hamper. Andy came along and collected the dirty towels. If any could make a washing machine explode, it was Andy. The entire basement was soaking wet and covered with laundry soap.

Back in the living room Prue and Coop heard the commotion of Andy yelling for help. So Coop placed Preston in the play pen with Patty and they raced to the basement. Both of them slipped and fell in water and soap, they covered head to toe in soap. In the living room Preston, who was going through a biting stage bit Patty making her cry.

Prue called a repair man to fix the washing machine then the adults went upstairs to check on the babies. Christy was already there. It looked like she was comforting baby Patty in her arms.

"Preston bit Patty" Christy told the adult and showed them the bit mark on Patty's arm.

"Oh my little devil, Christy would you mean keeping an eye on them while we clean up" Prue asked.

"Sure" Christy agreed.

Half an hour later Prue and the guys were in the living room playing with the babies. The repair man arrived and got the scare of a life time. While the repair man was fixing the washing machine Patty decided it would be funny to beam for the first time, right in-front of him. As he screamed Coop ran down and collected his daughter, then used his powers to wipe it out of the repair man's memory.

"Patty just got her beaming powers" Coop stated coming into the living room with Patty in his arms.

"That's not our biggest problem, we lost Preston" Andy stated.

"He orbed out and he's in the house" Prue said.

"And can't you sense him" Coop asked.

"No that's why it's a problem, the only place I can't sense is the underworld" Andy stated.

"Great just great, Patty revealed magic before she was even a month, and the baby is in the underworld, this is just wonderful" Coop stated.

Christy offered to take Andy down to the under wold since she knows it well. Andy agreed as long as Christy stayed at his side at all times. Down in the underworld the found Preston siting nearby a group of demons who looked clueless to his presence. To avoid startling Preston by orbing to him, Christy used her telepathy power to tell Preston they were there through thought. Preston looked over at them, smiled and orbed into his father's arms.

"Oh thank god thanks Christy for your help" Prue stated and took Preston into her arms.

"Preston Morris Halliwell what were you thinking! You cannot just orb to the underworld whenever you feel like it" Prue scolded her one year old.

"Prue do you honestly think he understands" Andy asked.

"Oh he better understand or his power will be binded for a year" Prue stated.

"Good news is the washing machine is fixed, and the toilet" Coop stated to lighten the mood.

At three Leo got home from magic school covered in food and garbage. He did not look like he had a good day at magic school at all. The others had to stop themselves from laughing.

"What happened to you" Prue asked.

"Remember Rusty, the trouble maker from my first year of teaching at magic school" Leo asked.

"How could we forget" Coop stated.

"Well it turns out he's a brother, he's a new student in my class" Leo revealed.

"Oh poor you, I'd give you a hug if you didn't smell like garbage" Prue said.

While Leo went to take a shower, Andy went to pick up Payton from pre-school. Prue went to the bus stop to pick up Wyatt, Chris, Melinda, the twins, P.J., Henry Jr. and Parker. Coop stayed at the manor with Christy, Leo and the babies.

When Prue and the kids arrived they were soaking wet. It had started to rain on their way home from the bus stop. They all changed clothes but didn't have any towel since they were in the dryer which wasn't working. Leo got to work on fixing the dryer when Andy arrived with Payton and they were wet as well.

From there things were down right crazy, the kids just didn't want to get along. Wyatt and Chris were the only ones behaving and were upstairs doing their homework. Melinda and P.J. we're doing their homework at the table until the twins started colouring on them. Then the twin fed Belle their homework as well as Melinda and P.J.'s homework.

"Oh come on really, telling the teacher the dog ate my homework never works even when it's true" P.J. whined.

"I'm telling" Melinda said.

"If you tell I'll turn you into a fish" Kat threatened.

Meanwhile Little Henry, Parker and Payton were fighting as well. Parker had used her new power of empathy to tell Henry was mad. Henry refused to admit it which caused an argument. When Payton told them to knock it off they started yelling at her.

"Hey what's going on" Leo asked.

"Henry Jr. is a big cry baby that's what" Parker stated.

"I am not a cry baby, you're a big liar" Henry Jr. stated.

"Am not" Parker screamed.

"Ok that's enough, rooms now all three of you" Leo ordered.

Meanwhile in the kitchen Coop and Andy had finally realized they were fighting. Tamora and Kat were sent to the magic proof room, which was Christy's room. As punishment Christy made them clean her entire room, and since they couldn't orb everything away, it was a good punishment. Andy wrote a note for their teacher explaining what the twins had done.

At four thirty Phoebe came home with take out. She and the others enjoyed chicken burgers and drinks from burger king. Paige and Henry both got home at five and Phoebe gave them their food. When Piper got home at six she had to re-heat hers.

Seven marked bath time starting with the younger ones. By seven thirty the rest of the kids were in the bathtubs. Since the kids refused to go sleep it was almost eleven when they finally fell asleep from throwing tantrums. Wyatt and Chris's hadn't refused to go to bed but couldn't fall asleep till eleven cause of the other kids. However Preston and Patty didn't go down until after midnight.

"All kids are asleep" Phoebe whispered to the others in the living room at 1:30 in the morning.

"Want to watch a movie or go to bed" Piper asked.

"Bed" everyone agreed at the exact same time without having to think about it.