Just now getting around to catching up on things after having stopped reading to avoid spoilers before last year's movie/finale.

This is lovely. The details are great, from Flynn always losing her shoe, to the vomiting on the first day back to teaching, to Wyatt sharing stories about him and mommy with the babies, to Lucy swapping Stanford for a CC and giving all the talks on women in history. And everything else. It feels like it could really have been that way. Thanks for giving them that history :)

I really enjoyed this! It was a gray fill in of all the moments between the scenes we saw.

Oh my goodness, how to summarize this brilliant behemoth...! I can't! It's all blurred together in one big "I should go to bed now but hey, let's start this fic, and whoops... had to finish it in one frenzied go" because it was so captivating I couldn't stop! Wonderful! Amazing! Delightful! Thank you so much! I'm gonna go back and reread it now. Siiighhhh

I absolutely love this story!

Wow! This is a labor of love, that’s for sure. This was so well written and just beautiful. It showed a relationship grow and change in such a realistic and beautiful way, yet the Wyatt and Lucy we all know in love were still there. An absolutely beautiful job!

So. Fucking. Good! Gah. Legit such an amazing story! Thank you fo providing all the little pieces we didn’t get to see in the finale!

Love it. Love it, love it, love it. I wish I was only as strong as this Lucy.

GUYS. GUYSSSSSS. Thank you so much for this lovely, full, soul-lifting peek into the lives of the Logan-Prestons. No joke, I COULD NEVER EVER EVER touch upon every little moment that hit my heart with the feels, but seeing as I knew I'd be massively overwhelmed, I took some notes along the way :) Get ready for incoherent screaming rambles because I AM SO HAPPY YOU WROTE THIS.

Lucy vacillating at the beginning, being unsure of what she truly wants with this newly reclaimed life of hers - I accept nothing else. She needs time (even if she quickly learns that there isn't *too much* time to be had) to find her way again, and I like how you danced all around that feeling of fogginess from both of their perspectives. On that note, I love a Wyatt who uses his whole body to block her view of a wine bottle that has caused her pain. I NEED THAT WYATT. Thank you. I love their love. And then the noted contrast between Wyatt stepping into his role as baby daddy when Lucy breaks the news as opposed to his crash and burn chaos of hearing the same from... you know who... HE IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT MAN WHEN HE IS WITH THE ACTUAL LOVE OF HIS LIFE. YAY for the unexpected happiness of the new fam, and excellent play on option 2 becoming 2 literal lives :))))

The Rufus-Jiya-Lucy scene when Wyatt is MIA was SO GOOD. I love the dynamics of how Lucy and Rufus relate to each other in times of stress (SO ACCURATE) and his offer of Jiya kicking Wyatt’s ass killed me LOL. I'm so glad Lucy has these friendships to fall back on when she's in crisis. HEART EMOJIS RIYA.

All of the Halloween frag blessed my domestic soul. Including this - “…knowing her genetics he’s going to have to get used to nurturing all three girls’ abundant joy.” Cue MY JOY over impending dad!Wyatt because that sentiment has me turning to mush. And then Rufus was with the phallic minion LOLLLLLLLL. The amazing personality of Rufus shines through yet again with this one - “Hates confined spaces, thinks Tupac is alive, is Delta Force but can’t spell camouflage. Boom, roasted.” I CACKLED. And then the way Wyatt shyly suggests the name Flynn for their second girl - awwwwwww times infinity.

THE TWINS ARRIVAL - MORE HEART EMOJIS. Wyatt reflecting on all the ways he’s already been SO impressed by Lucy, how much he already adored her before this, and how none of it can encompass how he feels now with the delivery of their girls… gahhhhhhh, it is so sweet getting the insight into how this amazing miracle has rocked his world.

Just accept the next jumble of insanity as lines/moments I loved SO MUCH:
“and that’s your first bad dad joke, Amy” (HOLD ME, I LOVE IT)
“Nazis and the Alamo can take a backseat because this is real fear”
Wyatt, the "KING OF THE BUCKLE UP" BESTED BY A CARSEAT HAHAHAHHA
“Welcome to the wide-open road, Ladies” I AM SQUEALING for this reference
WYATT TELLING HIS BABIES ABOUT 1941. TELLING THEM THEY COULD HAVE COME EARLIER. OMG.

The line - “I’m so gonna marry you one day” - coming on the heels of Lucy putting her current domestic crisis in perspective over the lines of the doomsday journal, realizing that a messy life in the here and now still is so much better than what could have been... that was excellent. Because OF COURSE she is going to get frustrated at times, and of course Wyatt can't actually be perfect (not even with that face), but she's seen a much scarier future than this one and that's gotta take the wind out of her sails even at the worst moments.

I love the give and take in their relationship over the different stages of parenthood. Wyatt taking over as Suburban Dad to two tiny terrorists, oh my heart. The idea of all 3 women succumbing to tears before the morning of Lucy's first day of work is spent – gahh, I love how much that affects him, the poor sap. And then the missing rings being stuck to Flynn and his idea with the locket – I LOVE IT ALL. For Lucy to come home at the end of that day and use the “torturing Daddy phrase” back then.. sooo many feels :)

Speaking of feels, I pretty much got misty-eyed the instant I realized that Lucy had compiled an academic series about the women that she’s met throughout history. Like for real, I had tears in my eyes because THAT IS PERFECT. And then you go and slam into my emotions again with the message from Wyatt about her sacrifice of family time really meaning that she’s teaching her girls to work for their dreams. And then he comes with a mobile twin sleepover in tow and the whole thing is perfectly imperfect, which all comes together SO FLAWLESSLY when the opening of Lucy’s lecture unfurls the way it does, a story of a woman who never once takes a backseat to the man and the family she loves. Lucy Preston matters. Bonnie Parker matters. Marie Curie matters. The list goes on.

ALL OF THE BAR FLIRTS. ALL OF THE NOT SO SUBTLE TOUCHES. ONE NIGHT WITHOUT THE TWINS AND THEY. ARE. FEISTY. Dang that argument about Wyatt's offered position for getting in the way (MEGA SIDE EYE DAN), BUT THE CONCLUSION WAS WORTH THE WAIT. LUCY MOCKING THE SUPPOSED DAD BOD, LOL. AGAINST THE WALL HOTNESS AND THE STAMINA TO CARRY HER TO THE BEDROOM.

Oh and then we go from all the heat of the prior scene to me pretty much in tears again BECAUSE LUCY HAS TO TELL HER GIRLS THAT IT’S NOT OK TO SAY “GO AWAY FOREVER” AND IT HURTS ME. Of course they’re kids and they’re bound to say things like that, but WOW did you ever pierce my heart with the weight that statement carries in this family :( Lucy handled it like an absolute champ, and then both Lucy and Wyatt checking on each other at intervals throughout that scene was the sweetest.

AND JUST LIKE THAT, 2023 HAS COME A CALLING. The brief but effective transition into Lucy's meeting with her Department Head got me good - “WITH ALL DUE RESPECT HOW COULD WE DENY YOU TENURE?” YES GIRL YES. I love how you charted her impact at the college, the way she grew the department and advanced their opportunities.

And lastly... The gradual signs that Lucy has noticed in Wyatt, how he's been allowing his fears to creep into his interactions with Lucy and his girls from the minute 2023 hit was soooo soft. I love that sap of a man so much. Also, every time there’s a mention of that “crazy ordinary wonderful life” phrase from the finale, my heart bursts a little more. THIS LIFE IS SO WELL EARNED FOR THE BOTH OF THEM. Then the very last section.. ENDING WITH THE WYATT QUOTE ABOUT LUCY REWRITING THE HISTORY THAT HAS BEEN PREDICTED FOR HER. I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS. THEY REALLY DID WRITE A FUTURE OF THEIR OWN. I HAVE TEARS IN MY EYES AGAIN.

THANK YOU FOR THIS CRAZY ORDINARY WONDERFUL MONSTER OF A STORY :)

This is so wonderful I literally feel like crying. The way you showed the everyday nuisances of their lives and the struggles with their jobs and twins, but all of it being so worth it at the end... I'm just... I need a minute. The whole thing with the family tree was just beautiful and the last paragraph had me feeling like I was watching the montage at the end of the movie all over again. So freaking brilliant.