Heart in Hand: Stitches in Time Series #3 by Barbara Cameron

Author:Barbara Cameron [Cameron, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 1426714343
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2013-02-02T06:00:00+00:00

“Ready?”

Anna looked up as her grandmother entered the storage room, attached a mailing label to the box in front of her, and nodded. “That’s the last one. You know I could drop this shipment off by myself. You don’t have to go with me.”

Leah placed it on top of the packages in the cart and wheeled it out of the room. “I know. But it won’t take long, and it’ll give us a chance to talk.”

Hmm, thought Anna. She pulled on her coat, grabbed the handle of the cart, and followed her grandmother out of the shop.

“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas,” played from a nearby speaker over a shop.

The air felt a little nippy, but they moved briskly so Anna didn’t feel chilled. The weather forecasters predicted cooler temperatures the following week. Stores up and down the street were festive, decorated for the holidays with swags of pine greenery, shiny ribbon, and ornaments.

A tiny fireplace with a battery-operated fake flame set a warm scene in their shop window. Several of Leah’s dolls sat near it, covered with one of Naomi’s warm and comfy Christmas-patterned quilts, Anna’s baby hats that looked like fanciful little forest creatures, and Mary Katherine’s pillows woven of red-, white-, and green-colored wools.

And since the Amish believed in making gifts for each other for the holiday, one corner of the window was devoted to all the kits that customers could buy to sew or knit or cross-stitch to give to friends and family.

Some store owners had used a light dusting of fake snow to give windows a wintry look since the real stuff hadn’t shown up yet. Signs in windows advertised specials and sales. It was proving to be a good season for retail judging by all the shoppers crowding the sidewalks, carrying shopping bags loaded with their purchases.

Jamie, Mary Katherine, and Naomi were back at the shop taking care of the customers, but it wasn’t like her grandmother to take a break in the day. Anna wondered what was going on but waited until she chose to reveal why she’d asked her to take the packages to ship.

Finished with their chore, Leah turned to Anna. “How about some pumpkin spice coffee?”

“It’s expensive,” Anna said.

“We only get it this time of year. It’ll be my treat. Let’s have ours here and take some back for the others.”

Anna nodded, and they went inside the coffee shop. The line moved quickly as the baristas created the specialty coffees with holiday flavors like pumpkin, eggnog, cinnamon, and peppermint.

They ordered their coffee and found a small table near the front window.

“I know Henry and I didn’t let any of you know that our relationship had changed from just being friends,” Leah said. “But it really seemed to surprise you.”

“It’s not that I don’t like Henry,” Anna said. “He’s a very nice man. I guess I just hadn’t thought you might end up getting remarried.”

“Because I’m old?”

“No! You’re not old!”

“Well, I’m not young,” Leah said with a smile. “But I’d gotten to where I didn’t think God was going to send along another mann.

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