Miracles Retold
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It’s a few weeks before Christmas, and Annie doesn’t have any Christmas spirit this year. If she can just get through each day by checking off everything on her to-do list, she will manage to get through the holidays. Annie’s three children want lights, decorations, cookies, and fun times — but Annie doesn’t have time to manage the workload at her job and celebrating with her family.
Annie’s mother-in-law, who lives with the family while recovering from a stroke, harbors a secret. After one of the kids goes missing, her secret sets off a chain reaction of events that causes Annie to rethink what miracles really mean.
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Miracles Retold - Holly Ambrose
Miracles Retold
by Holly Ambrose
© Holly Ambrose 2014. All rights reserved.
Cover image ©iStock.com/EM_prize
For all my grandmothers, and for grandmothers everywhere
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
— C.S. Lewis
The Problem with Christmas Spirit
The snowball hit Annie in the back of the head, bounced off her limp brown hair and rolled down the driveway toward the street.
Boys!
Annie said, Those foam balls are for Carter’s school project. If you ruin or lose them, I’m not buying more!
Thank goodness it wasn’t a real snowball that left ice in her hair, Annie thought. It was a few weeks before Christmas, but they never had snow where they lived in Florida. Winter usually brought crisp, clear days — but so far, it was still rainy and humid.
I’m sorry, Mom,
said Carter, the youngest. He picked up the ball from the ground. "Ryder threw it at me first and I untorturously missed him."
Just getting you back for what you did to me yesterday,
Ryder said with a gratified grin.
Brothers,
muttered Hannah, the oldest.
The four of them gathered their belongings from the SUV and headed to their front door.
Please,
Annie said, Let’s just get inside and do what we have to do. You all have school work, and my to-do list is as long as a drugstore receipt.
Your to-do list is always long,
Hannah said.
Why do you say that all the time?
Ryder asked Annie.
Because it’s true,
Annie said simply. A mother’s work is never done.
Annie mentally ran down her list of obligations: check kids’ school work, serve dinner, make kids’ lunches for the next day, check work e-mail and arrange some meetings, look for a missing library book, put away the clean laundry and start working on holiday cards. She needed to make sure she had snacks for Ryder’s soccer practice. She also wanted to make a list of gifts she still had to buy (she didn’t know what to give her husband, Lon), and look up a few things online. Nearly the same list as last night. And pretty similar to the list she would have tomorrow.
Hello,
Grace called to them cheerily when they entered the house. Grace was Lon’s mother, and she had lived with the family for five months, since she’d had a stroke. Thankfully, Grace could walk, but she moved slowly and had trouble with her left arm.
Hi, Grandma!
the kids said when they got in. The family cat, Angel, had been sitting by the door — always eager to dart outside at the first chance — but instead jumped out of the way to avoid being hit by a flung backpack.
Carter rushed to give Grace a hug. How many days until Christmas?
she asked him.
Fifteen,
Ryder said before dashing to the room they shared.
She asked me, not you!
Carter yelled after him. I knew what the answer was. I can count too!
Don’t worry about it,
Grace said. I know you can. How was your day, Annie?
Annie smiled, but her gray eyes didn’t. She hesitated before answering. You keep reminding me to think positively,
she said. So, with that in mind, best day ever.
She headed to the kitchen.
Uh-oh,
Grace said, giving Carter a pat. Time to get dinner going.
He scampered off, and Grace ambled over to the kitchen to help Annie get food together — whatever Grace could do with her good arm.
People could save so much time if they just didn’t have to eat,
Annie said, pulling cans out of a cabinet. Just one more thing to do.
Dinner brings everyone together,
Grace countered. I’ve heard lots of families don’t even eat dinner together anymore.
She shook her head. I’m on the computer, you know. The Internet. I visit sites. And it’s amazing what you can find on YouTube.
You watch YouTube, Grandma?
Hannah asked. She had just come in to the room to set out supplies for a diorama project for school. Angel the cat came over to the kitchen bar to inspect and sat