Flashback ( Merry Needham Christmas)

We intended for our little family Christmas to be the big one...that the actual day we would have less gifts and less smiles. Thankfully we were wrong but we still enjoyed doing our own thing anyways. Linleys main gift was a doll house and Pipers was a play kitchen. Chad as usual got the honors of putting then together but unlike previous ( and real) Christmases there was no midnight mass to watch. Poor fellow toiled though and it was a labor of love and hope... That soon Piper would be home for good to play with hers and that Linley would know we are indeed hearing her little hearts desires.