A Christmas Jar for Santa: A Christmas Jars Story by Jason Wright
Author:Jason Wright
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Jason Wright
“Oh, no, dear, stay put. I have a helper today.”
Erin, at that time a senior in high school, followed her into the house. “Remember me?” she asked.
“Of course,” I said. It is amazing that I forget so many things but remember these kids.
“You’re Steve and Julie’s daughter.”
“Uh huh.”
“Erin is going to help us this year as a service project for school,” Pauline explained.
“It’ll look good on my college applications,” Erin added a little sheepishly.
“Welcome aboard,” I said with my most Christmassy smile.
Having Erin with us made everything so much easier. Pauline and I were able to focus on the spirit of what we were doing instead of on the details. We could pick and choose the things that made us happy, and Erin took on the rest.
She seemed to want to do as much as possible, and she wrote down every detail in her service project book. I was worried about her doing the right things for the wrong reason, but Pauline told me not to worry about it. No matter what her motives were, Erin made that the best Christmas Pauline and I ever spent together.
Erin was a huge help that year, but she became part of the family the next spring. That was when Pauline’s cancer showed itself and quickly ate away at her. The doctors offered some experimental treatments, but she wasn’t interested. I tried to talk her into trying something, anything to stay a little longer. She said, “I would rather live my last days happy and strong than my last months bald and sick.”
“But what about Christmas? I can’t do it alone.”
“You’ll do it. You must do it. Promise me.”
I promised. She passed away nine and a half weeks later. Erin helped me go through her things. I pined for her so. When October came, I didn’t want to live, let alone do the Christmas things that Pauline and I had done together for so many years.
“You promised,” Erin reminded me over the phone from college. “I’ll coordinate from here and come to help as soon as classes end.”
I went through the motions that year with Erin at my side. I was not a very jolly man, but we did some good.
Each of the next five seasons got easier and easier. Erin did everything over the phone or during weekend visits. The year she graduated from college, she went straight to work for the TV station and convinced them to do a series of stories about our project. I didn’t like the idea much, but it brought in some more presents, so it worked out all right. Erin took Pauline’s place in lots of ways and finally seemed to be doing it because she loved it.
That brings us up to this year.
I decided back in July that I am too old to be doing this anymore. Even with Erin’s help, it’s a lot of work for an old man. When I told Erin, she said, “Oh. I see. Well, if you can’t keep the promise, I suppose you can’t.
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