Eggnog Makes Her Easy_A Boys of the Big Easy Holiday novella by Erin Nicholas

Author:Erin Nicholas [Nicholas, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: EN Fiction, Inc.
Published: 2018-11-30T05:00:00+00:00

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Thankfully, Aidan had been asleep when Lindsey arrived at Bea’s and hadn’t fully awakened even when she’d carried him to the car and then into their house.

Liam hadn’t fallen asleep watching movies like his brother, but he was clearly exhausted.

“Did you have fun, buddy?” she asked as she tucked him in and kissed his head.

Right now the boys shared a room. She didn’t know if they would always want to, but for the time being they liked having their toys and books and each other in the same place.

“It was really fun,” Liam told her, just before a big yawn hit him. “We made reindeer food and snowman bathtubs.”

Lindsey smiled and brushed his hair back from his forehead. God, he looked so much like Matt. So many nights doing just this very thing it would hit her and her breath would catch and she’d have to breathe through it.

Tonight was no different but the wave of longing was tempered by the thought that Matt was just down the hall waiting for her.

She felt bad about not telling the boys he was here, but then Liam yawned again and when she looked over at Aidan, she realized this was the right thing. They were too tired to deal with that kind of excitement right now. And besides, she’d come up with a fantastic way to surprise them tomorrow and she was a little giddy thinking about it.

“What’s in the reindeer food?” she asked. She already knew. She’d made reindeer food with her class before and she’d provided the little baggies for the project tonight.

“Oatmeal and birdseed and red and green glitter,” Liam said. “I guess reindeer eat birdseed because they fly, right?”

“That makes sense to me,” Lindsey agreed. “And the glitter helps them find it in the dark, right? It sparkles in the moonlight.” She pulled his blankets up around his shoulders.

“Right,” he said.

“And what’s a snowman bathtub?” she asked. That had been someone else’s idea and she was curious.

He gave her a wide grin. “The bathtubs are the cups and the water is hot chocolate,” he said. “But then the snowmen get in. They play with the little peppermint bits and chocolate sprinkles like bath toys. And they wear Hershey kisses for shower caps!” He was getting excited and Lindsey rubbed his arm steadily, trying to keep him from getting too worked up. “The snowmen think it’s going to be fun, and relaxing, and warm, and then they melt!” He grinned. “Aidan thought that was funny.”

Lindsey laughed softly. “Ah.” Lindsey assumed they’d used marshmallows to make the snowmen. “That does sound funny.”

“He kept saying that snowmen should know that they will melt,” Liam said.

“I guess they probably should,” Lindsey agreed with a smile. “How did you keep the shower caps on their heads?” she asked. She was always looking for new, fun ideas for her first graders to do.

“Frosting,” he said. Then he yawned again.

“Frosting,” she repeated. She probably should have figured that.

“And pretzels for arms,” he said. He gave a long, slow blink.

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