Disclaimer - I don't own Twilight or any of the characters in the books by Stephenie Meyer. I may add some OC's though.

My favourite holiday is Christmas so I thought why not write a Christmas FanFic write. I've decided to write a Twilight one all about the build-up to Christmas. It will be written from Bella, Edward and Renesmee's point of view.

This is set the year after Bella turned and Renesmee was born - their second Christmas. Renesmee looks 8 but is in fact only slightly older than one.

This will be updated every day up to Christmas, but on Christmas Eve (24th) I will also post Christmas Day's chapter as I won't be home on the 25th.

Not all of the chapters will be as long as this one (though I just finished the second one and it's longer...), but they won't be ridiculously short either.

I'm still up past midnight just so I can start this story now. God, I'm tired...

BTW - I got my Christmas tree yesterday! :D

I hope you enjoy this little experience.

Enjoy!

Thanks so much to my awesome beta MistyWhiteWings. In fact, she's left a little message for you at the bottom...

'Tis the Season

Chapter One

Presents and Pancakes

Bella's POV

"'Tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la la, la la la la!" my gorgeous daughter sung at the top of her voice as she weaved in and out of rooms.

We had come over from our little cottage to the Cullen house and I was putting away some of Renesmee's clothes and pyjamas, as sometimes she falls asleep here and we don't want to wake her.

"Hey Ness," I heard Jake. "Isn't it a little early to be singing Christmas songs?"

"Nope," I heard Renesmee's reply and then her footsteps that sounded like they were headed downstairs.

I looked at the clock (it read 8:00 am) dropped the clothes that I was folding and sprinted into the living room.

My daughter, Edward, Alice, Jake and Jasper were all gathered around the fireplace. "What's going on?" I walked up to them.

"Mummy! I was just about to get you, I was just about to open the first door of my advent calendar!" Renesmee's eyes gleamed. "But I can't seem to find it. Last year it was on the mantel-piece." she frowned.

Instead of a chocolate advent calendar, or a painting one, me and Edward bought her twenty-four fun little presents and put them into tiny stockings labelled 1-24.

"Well," Edward grinned at me. "This year we thought we'd change it a little."

I ran into mine and Edward's room, went down on my knees and grabbed our contraption. I was back in the living room before you could say 'loch-ness monster'.

"Here you go, darling." I handed her the 24 stockings on a long piece of red ribbon.

"Oh my god!" she squealed.

Edward gently took the advent calendar off her, and quickly hung it in loops under the mantel-piece over the fire place.

"This is so cool!" she ran up to me and gave me a huge hug, then ran to Edward and repeated the gesture.

"Okay, okay. Now I'm excited. Open number one!" Alice leaped onto the sofa and beckoned for everybody but Renesmee to join her.

We quickly obliged.

Renesmee did a little twirl when she realised we were all looking at her. We all chuckled at her antics.

She giggled a little-girl giggle. It was times like these that we remembered just how young she actually was.

She reached into the '1' stocking and pulled out a small package wrapped in green tissue paper. She tore into it and held up a pink, woollen headband.

She smiled and looked at me and her dad. "Thank you!"

I grinned at her and appeared by her side. "It's to keep your little ears warm when it snows." I slid it on her head, held her by the shoulders and turned her left and right. "Gorgeous"

She thanked me again, and went to thank Edward.

"Ness!" I heard Esme call. "Breakfast!"

Renesmee has finally started to eat human food, it was just easier. I felt weird feeding my daughter blood,so I insisted she try some human food. Her favourite food is chocolate, but she'll eat pretty much anything now. So if she gets hungry, we don't have to go out, we can just run to the kitchen.

She sprinted out the room screaming "Guess what Grandma!"

I chuckled and turned to Edward. "She seems to like it."

He tossed his head back and laughed with me. He ran over and pulled me in for a hug. "Well done for coming up with it." he whispered.

I closed my eyes and tilted my head up. I felt his lips lightly touch mine but then pull away.

I opened my eyes and pouted. He grinned and tugged me to the kitchen.

Renesmee was sat at the counter, daintily eating syrup-covered pancakes.

"Mummy! Daddy! Guess what! Grandma made my pancakes into Christmas trees!" Renesmee squealed excited.

"That's great, sweetie!" I laughed.

"It's only the first of December." Jake walked into the kitchen.

"Repeat the last word of that sentence." Renesmee instructed.

"Uh...December." Jake said, confused.

"Exactamente." Renesmee grinned.

That night, Renesmee came running into mine and Edward's room. "Mummy. When can we get our Christmas tree?"

"Soon." I promised her. "Come on, let's get you to bed." I picked her up and ran to her bedroom.

Renesmee has gotten into the habit of reading to herself at night, so I kissed her on the forehead and went to leave but she grabbed my arm.

"Wait! Mummy. Can you stay in my room tonight?"

"Darling, I'll just be across the hall. Me and daddy have some things to do so we won't be going to grandma's house. I promise." I reassured her.

"Ok," she smiled. "Goodnight mummy."

I kissed her on the forehead once more and whispered. "See you in the morning angel."

I walked downstairs to find my love waiting for me.

"Hey. Renesmee's just reading." I snaked my arms around his waist.

"Great. 'I'm a Celebrity Get me Out of Here' is just starting." he grinned, picked me up and chucked me onto the sofa. I grinned, grabbed the remote and flicked the TV on.

I hope you guys enjoyed the first part of my drabble-fic.

There isn't going to be any drama (that I can see yet - that's not definite), just lots of Christmas fun.

Not a lot actually happened in this chapter, it was more of an intro.

By the way, some of Ness's advent presents will be for adults but come on, Edward is rich - he can pull some strings for his little girl, haha.

Hope you liked it.

MWW: Hey guys, thanks for reading Cassie's story (and you probably agree with me that it's amazing!) I feel that this story is great for getting people into a christmassy mood and I find it's an introduction that would intrigue me to read on! Like I say this chapter was amazing and I didn't have to correct anything in this chapter :) Well done Cassie and make sure you viewers keep reading! - Misty xxx

Please review.

Merry Christmas!

Cassie xxxxx