The 37 Days of Gusmas Title: Just In Case Author: wavingcat5 Prompt: Christmas bauble image Notes: Writing drabbles when sick kids are on you, crying, half the night isn't easy. But it's a good distraction!
Every year Debbie got out this old box of glass Christmas baubles. Every year some fell off the Douglas fir replica and shattered.
It was the legacy of living. Mikey’s toddlerhood took out a number of them. Later, it was Mikey and Brian horsing around, Deb and Vic dancing too near, and even the occasional argument that knocked and broke the baubles.
The last one had to be saved. Debbie took it down ‘in case’, just before heading out on her first Christmas date. She couldn’t promise that it’d stay on the tree when she and Carl stumbled back in.