Hey. I really wanted to write this from Anna's POV too. Anna is the youngest Shepherd. It's not as long as Emily's POV and it was a little harder to write but here it is.

Kids:

MerDer: Emily (20), Jake (17), Anna (14)

Bang: Conner (16), Lily (11)

CaGe: Catrina (18), Dylan and Ryan (14), Elena (9)

MAddison: Megan and Aiden (19), Rylie (10)

Alex/Izzie: Samantha (17), Matt (12)

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Two more hours. I have two more hours of school until I get to go home. I have half an hour of listening to my teacher drone on about chemistry and an hour and 20 minutes of my last class – ten minutes passing time. Normally I love chemistry and psych but today is one of my favorite days. Today was the day Aunt Izzie decorates our house for Christmas. My brother, Jake, my sister, Emily, and I live with our parents in this huge house built on land my dad bought when he first moved to Seattle. Emily is up at school all the time now. She's going to be a surgeon like mom and dad and our Seattle Aunts and Uncles but she's in junior in college right now. She's home now for break and I bet she's going to the hospital to watch some cool surgery.

"….which combine to make what? Ms. Shepherd?" My teacher had just called on me and sure I wasn't paying attention but I know the answer anyway.

"Sodium chloride," I answered and he went on talking again.

This day is going by sooo slowly. I live for this day. Decorating the house with Aunt Izzie day. Emily says it ends up looking like Santa's village but she's more like Aunt Cristina anyway. And we decorate every year because even if we go to New York for Christmas we have the New Years Eve party at our house. New York Christmases are fun because there's so much snow and we see all our other cousins. We have 14 cousins in New York and 11 in Seattle. A lot of my cousins in New York have families so we have tons of second cousins and it's really crazy at Grandma Julie's house.

Emily looks just like dad and Jake looks like mom. I look like both of them combined with brown curly hair and grey/blue eyes and I have mom's facial features according to Uncle George. Interns can still figure out who I am just by looking at me even if I'm not as obviously related to them as my brother and sister are. When we were younger we had to go to the hospital after school and do our homework in dad's office because everyone was working and mom didn't want us to be home alone. So we would go to dad's office, do our homework, then we would all go home for dinner. Since Emily turned 16 we went home after school and dad would be home for dinner, mom would sometimes be later. Dad told us at one point that mom didn't want to be like grandma Ellis was and he told us that mom was by herself a lot and Grandma Ellis put her job before mom. Mom is so not like that.

The bell rang and its time to go to my last class for the day. Dylan and Ryan are in my class too. Psychology. And we're watching a video so we can all sit in the back and pass notes. We stuck together all school year since it was our first year of high school. The first semester is almost over. After break – which starts today – we have finals. Jake says they're not as bad as they sound. Anyway, Dylan, Ryan and I are all the same age and we're really good friends. They're a lot like Aunt Callie and totally into bones. Jake and Samantha let me eat lunch with them and their senior friends because Ryan and D had a different lunch time than me. Conner is a junior and he's a lot like Uncle Preston. He is the one who breaks up the fights and he helps mediate but he's also a partier like Aunt Cristina. Matt is in 7th grade, Lily is in 6th grade, Rylie is in 5th grade and Elena is in 4th grade. Matt and Lily go to middle school and Rylie and Elena are in elementary school a few miles away from the middle school. All four of them take busses home – today Sam is picking them all up after school. Jake, Sam, and Conner all have licenses and cars. Jake takes me home and either Sam or Conner take Ryan and D home.

Dylan, Ryan and I spent all of Psychology passing notes and telling what we got everyone else for Christmas and they had fun making fun of how I always get tangled up in the lights. Its fun to get tangled in the lights – and I'm not really tangled I just wrap the lights around me. We also talked about how we wished we could be at the hospital now watching a surgery rather than this video on…I don't even know what. Aunt Miranda calls is the 'intern spawns' but she loves us all and our parents even though she won't admit it. Aunt Cristina called me, Emily and Jake 'McMinis'. She says that I'm bright and shiny. Mom says that's a good thing.

I am so excited about tonight. We're putting up the tree and decorating the living room and making cookies and watching Christmas movies. Class finally ended and the three of us ran to our lockers to grab our stuff and go home.

We got home and Meg and Cat had just finished making some cookies and they were helping Aunt Izzie unpack the Christmas stuff. Our dog, Keyla is getting more and more excited about the amount of people in the house. Aiden and Em went to the hospital to watch a surgery. Any other day I would be jealous but today was decorating day! I jumped right in helping put little Santa's and reindeer and cute little decorations around the living room and front entrance way. Dad had put the Christmas tree in the stand last night so for me that meant lights!! After putting a Santa and reindeer on the table in the hall and practically dove into the box of lights that dad made me patiently wind up last year so they wouldn't be tangled up when I put them all around me this year. Jake and the O twins (Dylan and Ryan - Megan and Aiden were called the S twins) continued putting out the cute decorations Aunt Izzie bought over the years while I pulled out a strand of multicolored lights, plugged it in to make sure it still worked, plugged in 2 more strands (connecting them) and draped them all over me while I started putting them on the tree.

Matt, Lily, Ry and El got home. Lily doesn't like the whole decorating thing like Em so she just got a snack and sat on the couch watching me put the lights on the tree. Matt started helping me telling me where I should put more lights. Aunt Izzie told Conner and Ry to start, very carefully, unpacking the ornaments and setting them on the table.

Aunt Cristina, Uncle Alex, Uncle Burke, mom, dad, Aiden, and Emily got here at almost the same time. The others were coming when they finished their individual surgeries a short time later. I had finished the tree lights and I was wrapped up in the lights that we put around the room. Aunt Cristina, Emily and Lily were hanging out on the couch in the corner watching the craziness that was decorating for Christmas. I looked over and saw dad kiss mom. Ew. It's really gross when they do that. Emily says it's cool that they love each other so much but kissing is so gross!

Once we finished decorating Aunt Izzie, Sam, Catrina, and Uncle Burke made a whole lot of Christmas cookies while the rest of us watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas then A Christmas Story. All the presents were put under the tree and there were a lot. There are presents for, like, 24 people. And then Santa has to come. Rylie and Elena still believe in him and I kinda do too but I know he doesn't really exist. I just like the idea. We're not supposed to tell Ry and El he's not real.

Christmas Eve is so much fun because everyone sleeps at our house. Lily, Rylie and Elena sleep with me in my room and we talk for like an hour or two before we go to sleep. We talk about what we think we'll get and what we think Santa will bring us – what we told him we wanted. The four of us fall asleep then wake up at about 7 the next morning. I go and let Keyla out while Lily, Ry, and Elena – along with Matt – run around and wake everyone up. We're sitting, practically bouncing with excitement as we see that Santa was once again reliable and he came and left us presents. The older kids and all our parents aren't as happy about the early wake up call but we're just so excited!

Finally Emily, Aiden, Megan and Catrina pass out the presents – because they're the oldest – and we get to open them. I got almost everything I asked for. I can't have a pony but it can't hurt to ask, can it?

I start playing with the radio controlled Barbie car I got from Santa – aka dad – and chase Keyla around the room with it. Mom always tells us that Christmas isn't about what you got or didn't get, it's about being with your family – the ones that you love. As long as she and dad stop kissing like they are now I'm totally cool with that. That and chasing Keyla around with my car.

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I hope you liked it. I have a few more ideas for the kids POVs.

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