Snow Angels by Fern Michaels

Author:Fern Michaels [Michaels, Fern]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781420103649
Publisher: Zebra
Published: 2009-11-01T05:00:00+00:00

At around ten o’clock on Christmas Eve night it began to snow, leaving three inches of fluffy powder on the ground before the snow clouds drifted east and the skies cleared. Christmas morning dawned bright and clear and the mercury stood at twenty-eight which, in Vermont in December, is practically a heat wave. It was a perfect day to try out the new sleds, skis, snowshoes, and snowboards that many people found under their Christmas trees that morning. But before they did so, a goodly portion of the residents of Maple Grove had something else to attend to.

Upon exiting Kendra’s room, Denny went to see the hospital administrator and got permission to carry out the plan. That obtained, Riley called the other members of the board who, after a unanimous vote of approval, immediately sprung into action.

Joe St. John activated the church phone tree, making sure every single member of the congregation was informed of the change in plans. Gary Wilson, who owned a construction business, brought in a snowplow and a construction crew armed with shovels to clear the hospital parking lot of snow and ice. Nancy Metzger and her husband, Bill, loaded their horse trailer with bales of hay to serve as makeshift pews. Dean Hamilton brought a portable microphone and amplifier, the one his son, Drew, used for his garage band, and snaking a long trail of extension cords from the hospital to the parking lot, set up a rudimentary sound system. Riley, with the help of his wife, Dana, as well as Brian McCarthy, Sam Daniels, and Joan Kilty, went to the furniture factory and loaded up one of the delivery trucks with the giant tent and an assortment of plush recliners, still wrapped in plastic, to serve as seating for the elderly and infirm. Sugar Sugarman went to the church and got the choir robes, collection plates, and altar implements they’d need for the service. Darla Benton called the Quilting Bees, rallying her troops to make enough hot chocolate, coffee, and muffins to feed everyone after the service. Everybody helped set up the tent. Before the snow began falling, everything was ready.

And so the next morning, the members of and visitors to the Maple Grove Community Church bundled up against the morning chill, drove to the hospital, and filed into a tent to celebrate Christmas together. Joining them were scores of doctors, nurses, lab technicians, janitors, cafeteria workers, families of hospital patients, and some of the patients themselves, including Kendra and Baby Holly, who was wrapped up in a veritable mountain of blankets topped off by the woolly, hand-knit cap that had been Darla’s present to the baby girl.

With his beaming family looking on, Andy Loomis stepped to the front and wished everyone a very Merry Christmas before opening the Bible to read the story of the first Christmas, an event that had occurred in a place even smaller and of less consequence than Maple Grove, that had come a little sooner than two young

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