Yearly Archives: 2021

I am the last to head to bed.  I still have several gifts to wrap.  “Off to bed with you two,” I shoo Kookie and Janna towards their rooms.  Janna…

I finally close the door on all of our guests at midnight.  Kookie left at eleven to drive Emmie and Noel home so they can be with their parents on…

Emmie returns a moment later with a flat rectangular package.  She also wrapped her present in bright red paper.  Probably because she knows it’s Kookie’s favorite color.  Sheepishly, she hands it to him.…

“Emmie?  I have another present for you,” Kookie admits softly. “What?”   She is overwhelmed.  I can hear it in her voice and see it on her face.  Wide-eyed, she stares up at him.…

After dinner, Kookie waits until everyone is busy watching a movie in the family room downstairs before he invites Emmie up to the living room.  I’m in the middle of clearing…

We return home in time to add the finishing touches to our Christmas Eve dinner.  Kookie and Emmie put our relish plate together.  They slice cheese and set out crackers…

My tiny army and I invade the hospital in the late afternoon.  We head down the wrong hallway, but Janna quickly discerns our error and soon has us on the right…

The next morning, Kookie and Emmie join me in the kitchen early.  Since Lyric and Janna helped me to make the meatball dough yesterday afternoon, now all we have to…

A quarter of an hour passes, and I invite Alastair and Abner out to the kitchen with me.  “Are you guys ready to help me peel cucumbers?” Two little heads…