Echolls Family Christmas 2008
By 90909 standards, this would count as a pretty modest house, a four-bedroom ranch with a tidy yard, at the end of a cul-de-sac. It's typical of this neighborhood, which is the sort of place where people spend a little more than they need to at Christmas, but not the sort where people hire Victorian carolers to perform in clouds of special effects snow at their Christmas parties.
It’s Christmas Eve, and lights twinkle and glimmer in windows up and down the street, snatches of carols slip out when doors open, and Santa-playing parents are muttering about batteries not being included and badly written instructions as they put presents under trees for tomorrow morning.
Trina moved in over the summer, and she knows there were concerns about having a Famous For Being Famous retired starlet in down the street. She buys cookies from Girl Scouts and popcorn from Boy Scouts when they come around, she comes and goes quietly and at decent hours, and the closest she’s come to hosting a wild party was a Saturday afternoon baby shower. One of her neighbors brought her a casserole when she got home from the hospital after Eliza was born, and another made her daughter a tiny pink hat and booties, and Trina figures that means she’s passed some kind of test and this might actually wind up being home for a good long while.
It’s Christmas Eve, and lights twinkle and glimmer in windows up and down the street, snatches of carols slip out when doors open, and Santa-playing parents are muttering about batteries not being included and badly written instructions as they put presents under trees for tomorrow morning.
Trina moved in over the summer, and she knows there were concerns about having a Famous For Being Famous retired starlet in down the street. She buys cookies from Girl Scouts and popcorn from Boy Scouts when they come around, she comes and goes quietly and at decent hours, and the closest she’s come to hosting a wild party was a Saturday afternoon baby shower. One of her neighbors brought her a casserole when she got home from the hospital after Eliza was born, and another made her daughter a tiny pink hat and booties, and Trina figures that means she’s passed some kind of test and this might actually wind up being home for a good long while.