Household; Dina Caliente = elder

Stanley Caliente = Adult

What Stanley found when he returned home from college was not what he had expected.  His Mother, Dina had become an empty shell of a woman.  She got up early to tend her garden, she went to work and when she came home she raked leaves before going to bed.  Their were nature magazines and art magazines laying untouched all over the front lawn and a few scattered about inside the house.  The maid would clean up the paper at least which drove Dina nuts.

“I want that for my compost,” she’d complain.  She refused to let Stanley help with the garden like he had when he was growing up. 

“I pay a gardener to do that” she’d protest.

Sometimes at night he’d see her standing over his father’s grave crying.

Dina had never been able to marry Stetson.  She had once been dating Mortamer Goth with plans to get engaged.  She was however fooling around with Don Lotherio.  She had been woohooing with Don when Mortermer had walked in on them.  They’d had a hugh fight and Mortamer stopped seeing her.  Instead he married a single mother named Brandi Broke.  Don had been engaged to Cassandra Goth, Mortamer’s daughter, and was also dating Dina’s sister, Nina.  Eventully, Cassandra broke it off with Don and he went on to marry Nina.  Dina, now alone started seeing a townie by the name of Carl Fuchs and eventully got engaged.  Dina had been preparing herself to settle for a life with Carl when two brothers moved to Peasantview.  Staphon and Stetson Studly were like night and day.  The Dark haired Staphon was all about romance, with a happy outgoing personality.  He didn’t take anything very serious.  Stetson’s blonde hair wasn’t the only thing that was a contrast to his brother.  He was a family man with a very serious nature.  Dina fell hard for the brooding Stetson.   They wanted to get married but Carl refused to break their engagement.  Dina and Stetson tried everything to make Carl mad enough to break it off.  Neighbors even tried to help. Carl didn’t care.  He just kept coming around.  Dina and Stetson finally gave up trying and went on with their lives.  Stetson moved in with Dina in the house she once shared with her sister Nina.  They had their oldest son, Dean.  Wanting more space they bought Darren Dreamer’s old house.  Stanley was born a short while later.

After Stetson died, Dina had a hard time moving on.  She still thought about him.  She had tried finding ways to fill her time.  She dated Robert Kim a few times after his wife died, but he passed away shortly after.  Dustin Broke now visited with her from time to time.  His wife had died recently and they were both feeling the pain of loneliness. 

Stanley was doing his best to care for his mom.  He invited friends over and Dina enjoyed talking with them. 

Dina talked to Kitten Lames about her grandfather Daniel Pleasant.  Kitten enjoyed it, having never met him.  Dina told Brandon Roseland stories from when his dad, Cyd first moved to Pleasantview with his little gray dog.   She had many stories for Bobbie Happiness about the Kim family, as well as, his grandmother Hope Happiness.

Stanley never knew what he was going to come home to.  His mom often left food out. He discovered the bills were piling up in the mail box.  Once he came home to find Sindee Crazy playing on the monkey bars. 

“Your mom made me lunch,” Sindee told him, “I think she went to bed cause I haven’t seen her.”

It took some doing, but Stanley convince his mom to retire from work and just enjoy what time she had left.  He was starting to get the feeling that life had lost its joy for her.  Stanley barely found the time to think about his fiancée Sydney Roseland or plan a wedding.  He hoped once he got his mom back on track he could start building a family of his own with Sydney.