All I Want for Christmas by Jenny Hale

Author:Jenny Hale [Hale, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bookouture

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After lunch, David had gone upstairs to do some work and Leah had curled up with Sadie on the settee until she’d woken from her little nap. She always did that after the drive to Nan’s.

She and Sadie were discussing the different kinds of pancakes she could get at the Main Street diner. Sadie had been listing the pancakes she’d like to try for the last minute or so.

“They have any kind you could think of!”

“What about brown sugar pancakes like Nan made?”

“Yes.”

“Okay,” she said with a devious grin. “I’ll bet they don’t have this one: gummy worm pancakes.”

Leah laughed. “I think you might have found them a new recipe to create.”

“No,” she said, her thoughts evident in the way she stretched out the “oh” in the word. “I wouldn’t want to eat those. They don’t sound very yummy. But cotton candy does! That’s another new one!”

Leah grimaced as she laughed. “Cotton candy pancakes? Just the sound of that makes my tummy hurt.”

David came in wearing his coat and boots and holding a saw. Both Leah and Sadie stopped, mid-sentence, and looked up at him.

“Hi,” he said as he looked between the both of them, an odd expression on his face. Was it excitement? “I have an idea.”

“Any idea involving a saw is slightly worrying,” Leah joked.

David let out a huff of laughter. “I think we should have a Christmas tree. Don’t you?” he said to Sadie, pulling the quilt off of them. “Let’s go out back. We’ll cut a tree like Nan always did. How does that sound?”

Leah couldn’t stand how bare Nan’s house looked. With the family coming in, she owed it to Nan to put the house together just like she would for the holidays.

“Yes!” Sadie said, standing up with excitement. She hopped around, clapping her hands.

“Okay! Let’s get our boots and coats and hats on then!” Leah said, jumping up behind her.

Once they were both bundled up, Leah, David, and Sadie went outside, headed for the expanse of woods behind the house. There were so many trees to choose from.

“How good are you with a saw?” Leah asked, as they trudged through the last bit of slushy, snowy grass before entering the woods.

David looked at her, amusement on his face.

“Nan always used to put a tree up after we got here,” said Leah. “We’d go out in the woods and cut one down like we are now and then spend all night decorating it.”

Sadie stopped to consider one of the small spruces in her path but then must have decided against it, turning away and walking further into the woods.

“I remember that from when I was here as a kid,” David said, his cheeks rosy from the icy air.

“I think the best Christmas trees are this way,” Sadie said, leading them through the woods ahead.

“This used to be a little clearing,” David said as they walked through an area now overgrown with trees and brush. “I remember making a fort here when I was young.

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