Counterpane Lane: Storybook Cottage

Storybook Cottage is where the Marble Family lives. Mom's job is to travel and take pictures, so she is gone a lot. Uncle Jess moved in to give Dad some help. He comes and goes when Mom is not there. They have six kids. The oldest girl is named Megan Marble. The second boy is named Dylan. The next two children are twins. Their names are Alex and Devon, girl/boy twins.
They also have a set of twin girls named Lily and Katie.

A family of dogs live in the barn. There are six of them. The dogs names are Bandit, Billy, Liney, Bella, Misty, and Minimuffin. But, they call her Mini for short.

They have two cats. One is named Jeanie. They also have a pet hedgehog, Hallie, and a pet lamb named Snowball.

Update June 2011: Megan is going to college to become an esthetician and study animal behavior. Dylan is also studying animal behavior and computers. When Alex grows up, she wants to be a vet. Devon wants to be a teacher. Lily and Daisy are now two years old, going on three. They don't know yet what they want to be when they grow up. Uncle Jess moved out to get his master's degree in archeology. Mom stopped traveling and now teaches photography at the high school.

The Land of Counterpane

by Robert Louis Stevenson

When I was sick and lay a-bed,
I had two pillows at my head,
And all my toys beside me lay,
To keep me happy all the day.

And sometimes for an hour or so
I watched my leaden soldiers go,
With different uniforms and drills,
Among the bed-clothes, through the hills;

And sometimes sent my ships in fleets
All up and down among the sheets;
Or brought my trees and houses out,
And planted cities all about.

I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane.

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