Jan Eliot's funny and irreverent Stone Soup follows the saga of an extended, blended family, starring two working-mom sisters living just across the fence from each other. Val and Joan share life with their opinionated mother, a middle-school diva and 10-year-old tomboy, a reclusive teenage boy, a wild preschooler and his new baby sister...and of course Wally, the ultimate nice guy who steps into his stepdad shoes with grace amid the chaos. Working-parent hassles, pre-school tantrums, middle-school angst, love and the single mom... it's all here in Stone Soup.
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Night-Gaunt49 said, 7 months ago
Just so you don’t do it any more for a long while.
dkendraf said, 7 months ago
Ooo, would never have thought Wally would stoop to guilting! Gotta watch those optimists!
IndyMan said, 7 months ago
@dkendraf
Who said Wally wasn’t human?
Paul Smith said, 7 months ago
Halloween candy tastes better.
Rx71Wm29 said, 7 months ago
But, isn’t Andy just a little too old to have gone trick-or-ttreating?
Jean said, 7 months ago
I had a sum total of 4 trick or treaters and none of them was under 13.
brickster said, 7 months ago
Sharing – it’s what family is all about.
opentomeet said, 7 months ago
I bought two big bowls of candy for Halloween and no one came round. Gave half to the two girls and the rest is mine, mine, ALL MINE!!
denese said, 7 months ago
The-day-AFTER-Halloween candy tastes best. And fifty percent off.
lightenup
said, 7 months ago
Wow, that’s too bad that some of you didn’t get trick-or-treaters! A lot of kids trick-or-treat here, so I know it’s not that parents won’t let them do it anymore. Maybe there’s just not a lot of kids in your area? Anyway, enjoy your extra candy! :-)
bagbalm said, 7 months ago
I shot twelve zombies before somebody explained why they were all carrying candy…
YatInExile
said, 7 months ago
I got a bag of those peanut buttery things that come wrapped in orange & black wax paper. :-P :-P :-P
snarkm said, 7 months ago
Wally is so right! How else can you eat a varied assortment of all different kinds of sweets, without having to buy ten or more large bags.
ncalifgirl58 said, 7 months ago
@snarkm
Indeed!
BobBlumenfeld said, 7 months ago
@snarkm
And then there’s the guilt factor: No one saw you buy any of that candy. In fact, you never even obtained it. You’re just sharing it.