Letting Michael run wild with the tinsel was her first mistake, especially after she realized that the phone was somewhere under the silver snow mess and it was going to take her forever to find it.

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Current Mood: tired

They littered his desk, as well as taped to the sides and he still didn’t know if he even knew enough people to get so many.

Tags: [about]: christmas, [comm]: musebysentence, [verse]: open
Current Mood: surprised

She hadn’t made a snowman since she was a little girl, but all that snow outside the castle was just begging for something to be done with it.

Tags: [about]: christmas, [comm]: musebysentence, [verse - eliot]: paradisa
Current Mood: amused

Last I checked, the kids were supposed to decorate the tree, not their father.

Tags: [about]: christmas, [about]: jessie, [about]: nicole, [comm]: musebysentence, [verse - lindsay]: yours to keep
Current Mood: cynical

Bela wasn’t really one to put much stock in tradition, but there were certain things she loved sharing with her children.

Tags: [about]: christmas, [about]: cole, [about]: lizzie, [about]: sara-rose, [comm]: musebysentence, [verse - michael]: shelter, [verse - michael]: when it's a dream
Current Mood: loved

The twins, curling up on their stomachs as the victims of too many candy canes, wasn’t the scene he wanted to come home to, but it was starting to become a Christmas tradition.

Tags: [about]: christmas, [about]: jessie, [about]: nicole, [comm]: musebysentence, [verse - lindsay]: fm canon, [verse - lindsay]: yours to keep
Current Mood: amused

Written for repo_woman  for the drabble meme. Prompt: Movie Theme.

"...for English, press one, para Español-"

beep

"We are experiencing longer than normal call volume. The average hold time is.... SEVENTEEN... minutes. Your call is important to us, and will be answered in the order it was received."

"Goddammit" Jack held the cordless land line phone away from him and wrinkled his face at it in disgust. He knew that it wasn't the phone's fault, but there had to be a holiday season scapegoat and he would rather not yell at a person who was just trying to do their job. He returned the phone to it's holster and pressed the speakerphone button, allowing himself to bustle around the kitchen finishing dinner preparations before Juliet returned home with Aaron. Earlier in the day he had bought a blu ray player and Up on dvd as an early Christmas present for the family, but was experiencing technical difficulties. He had hoped to have a night of dinner and a movie to celebrate, but at the moment neither seemed to be progressing very quickly.

As he peeked into the oven window to check on the meatballs, the Muzak clicked on with a blaring, and in his opinion, very annoying, refrain: ( rah-rah-ah-ah-ah! )

Tags: juliet, tm, verse: knew all along
Current Mood: surprised

Bela had long ago stopped believing in angels, but she couldn’t argue with their existence when one of them had saved her life.

Tags: [about]: christmas, [comm]: musebysentence, [verse - michael]: when it's a dream
Current Mood: tired

“Merry Christmas, Daddy,” Haley said with a grin as she wrapped her arms around his shoulders, and Flack still couldn’t help but wonder why he let her go to Indiana in the first place.

Tags: [about]: christmas, [about]: haley, [comm]: musebysentence, [verse]: grey picket fence
Current Mood: happy

One of the things Bela loved about New York was that she could look out her window and see the different colored lights, sprinkling the city.

Tags: [about]: christmas, [comm]: musebysentence, [verse]: open
Current Mood: calm