Jake, at 59 has lost his wife and is so depressed he considered suicide. His son helps him overcome his wife's death and two years later throws him a neighborhood birthday party. It's at that party that he realizes that his divorced and pregnant next door neighbor is smashingly beautiful and he wonders if she might be interest in him too.
Family reunions in the Bracklin clan seem to generate a lot of babies. It could be because the adults are talking too much and the kids are allowed to sleep wherever they want. Two sets of cousins keep the family tradition going.
Bobby forgot his sister's birthday, which was bad enough, but he's also broke, which made things worse. But there WAS something she needed that he could provide, and which would make her birthday a special event. / (Reviews)
Caroline found herself in the land of the dead, where she was required to choose how to spend her time in the afterlife. The only problem was that she wasn't dead.