"Well, thank you." The holidays were, in a lot of ways, the worst. Hannah had worked to move on with her life, both for her and Lucy's sakes, but on the holidays the lack of Tyler's presence couldn't be ignored. "This will give me something to smile over this Christmas."
"I figure to go over to my parents' during the morning, spend part of the day and lunch there, then come home for a bit of quiet - well, kind of quiet - time." There was never true quiet time when Lucy was involved. The little girl was either clinging to her mother shyly or else bursting out in some form of noise. "My father and stepmum haven't really had a holiday dinner on their own yet. I figured that might be a good gift of sorts for them."