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The Characters |
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Colin and Carly The Ardin kids' schedules are almost as packed as their parents, but since they've never experienced anything different, they don't mind. At the ages of 9 and 7, Colin and Carly have studied dance, karate, soccer, computer programming and several instruments, but haven't yet been allowed to walk around their neighborhood by themselves. Colin, when not dealing with a serious Nintendo habit, shows an early head for business, or at least figuring out how to get the maximum pay for household chores. Carly spends her time negotiating the rocky shoals of 1st grade social life and keeping up with the latest American Girl Doll products. |
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Edna and Morris Abby's parents live nearby, which makes it easy for them to spend time with the Ardins. When they have the time, that is, because Edna and Morris are, if anything, even busier than Len and Abby. Edna and Morris illustrate the principle that opposites attract. Morris is an irascible curmudgeon who prefers surfing the Internet in a spare bedroom to actually going out and dealing with real human beings, his grandchildren excepted. Edna, an optimistic free-spirit, can't get out enough and has been spending her golden years doing everything from earning a black belt in Tae Kwon Do to running the Iditarod in Alaska.
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Rajiv Len's business partner Rajiv, is co-owner of Leadfoot Couriers. A first-generation Indian-American, Rajiv's calm and somewhat cautious approach to business balances Len's tendency to think a little too big at times. Rajiv's been ducking his family's attempts to arrange a marriage for him for years, but the care-free bachelor image he tries to project barely hides a romantic streak a mile wide |
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Janice, Beatriz and Stewart are the other
therapists in the group that forms Heads Up Mental
Health care. Though they respect each other, it's
not always easy to make the decisions necessary to
keep things running.While Abby, Janice and Beatriz
get along all right, Stewart, who's difficult,
prickly and cheap, often gums up the works.
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Harry The Ardin's cat Harry was named not after a certain popular children's book character but after the hairballs he keeps coughing up on the rug. Everyone loves Harry except Len, who never wanted a cat to begin with. Harry seems to know this, and makes it a point to get under Len's skin whenever he can.
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