Nathan Sendak was disappointed when his girlfriend, Heidi Alcott, said she couldn’t see him as much anymore. But the truth was he understood where she was coming from. Sure, his mother may physically be present, but that didn’t mean that plenty of the responsibility for his siblings hadn’t fallen on Nathan’s shoulders while Rika chased after one true love after another.

When the moved to Nevermore, Rika had declared that she was turning over a new, more maternal leaf. Yet here Nathan was again, helping his little sister with her homework. Part of it was habit; Morrow knew Nathan was the more reliable one to ask help from. More than that, though, Rika had found a new passion.

Since becoming head of the the household, Heidi had seen her grades slip further and further down. Most of her time was used up with chores around the house, or caring for Leo. But her grades had gotten even worse since she met Nathan. Now that she was failing, she knew she would have to spend more time on her homework and less with her boyfriend.

The first day of winter was the grand opening of “Amber’s Ambrosia”, Amber Angelou’s new bakery.

I must have the worst luck of anyone in the whole world, Amber thought to herself when she woke to find snow falling. She just hoped the snow wouldn’t keep anyone away from her big day.

Sunday

Conner Bronte found an exciting announcement in his mailbox. For a limited time, loans would be available to Nevermore citizens interested in opening a local business.

Saturday

Renee Kincaid knew her family thought she was taking things too fast. She didn’t care. When you got to be their age, she figured, you couldn’t afford not to move quickly.

Friday

Nitta, who had been nursing a crush on Bilbo since she met him, decided to try her luck when she just happened to run into him outside his trailer. Bilbo was not amused.

“What are you thinking? I’m interested in your brother!”

Thursday

Zephyr couldn’t believe what was happening to her life. She was sleeping in a tent on her sister’s lawn, for starters. She started the day reminded of the state her life was in. She was still in a state of shock at having been rejected by Colin. He was elderly! He should have been grateful. Having been punted out of the photobooth had been bad enough. But then Zephyr had seen him making out in public with a woman twice Zephyr’s age. It was almost too much for Zephyr, who had made an entire life out of being beautiful and desirable, to see that she had been rejected for someone old enough to be mother, if not her grandmother.

Wednesday

Since moving to Nevermore, Leonardo Alcott had adopted a strange schedule. After school, he went straight to bed. Sometime in the middle of the night, he would get out of bed and spend the rest of the night looking through his telescope.

Tuesday

After seeing her niece Nitta and nephews Wander and Zondek off to school, Pixie Bronte spotted neighborhood Amber Angelou passing by. Impulsively, Pixie invited Amber in for “breakfast”, or, more specifically, the opportunity to talk motherhood with her.

“I’ve always wanted children of my own,” she told her over their bowls of cereal. “But I haven’t found that perfect guy to have them with. So when my brothers asked me to move to Nevermore and help them with their own children, I thought this might be my only shot at being a mother…”

Amber could barely manage to look politely disinterested in the topic.