Anne is now the mother of young children while her husband is a well-respected community doctor. Her children have much of the positive naivety that Anen had as a child. They trust various yarns spun by their classmates often leading to crazy occurrences. One daughter goes to the house of another to tell the mother that she was switched at birth with her daughter because a classmate had said so. The other mother brushes it aside because the girls are a year apart.
Anne has as few things of her own. She gets very jealous of her husband when they meet up with one of his old girlfriends. She believes that he has forgotten their anniversary and is smitten with this other girl. She later discovers that he had a present for her that arrived late and saw that her forgetting of the anniversary as a nice excuse to delay it. He also thought the old girlfriend was a bore. In another case, Anne tries to play the matchmaker to hook up a couple. Alas, she tries the "contrary" approach. The girl later asks if she can try to get Anne's blessing - they had been engaged before Anne tried.
The book is a primarily a book of positive experiences raising young children. There will be challenges. But the positive style used by Anne's family compares favorably to the bickering and negativity shown by others.
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