Family For Christmas-Ch 2
Fran smiled as she said, "Penelope, my name is Fran Morgan Rossi and me and my husband would love to adopt you and your daughters for Christmas", the rest of the message was spent with Fran giving her information about her and her family. She ended her message by giving her phone number and asking Penelope to call her if she was still interested.
She grinned as she hit enter, she put her computer down on the table and wondered how long it would take before she would hear from Penelope, she hoped that her and her girls would be spending Christmas with her, Dave and the rest of their family. Penelope couldn't help but smile as she watched her girls as they continued to eat their lunch.
After their lunch was over Ashley yawned and Penelope said, "I think it's somebodys nappy time", the girls giggled as they led their mom from the kitchen to the room the twins shared. She made sure that they were cuddled up with their favorite stuffed toys before turning around and walking to the door, Abby grinned and waved at her mom and said, "I lub you momma".
Ashley said, "heyyyyyyy me to momma", Penelope blew them both kisses which they caught and then she said, "mommy loves you both to soooo soooooooo much" before she then backed away from the room and headed back to clean up the mess from lunch. She sighed as she walked over to the couch, she picked up her computer and took a breath before she noticed her notifications.
She smiled as she opened them and saw that she had a response from her application, she sat back and got comfortable as she opened the message, she read the message outloud and grinned as she read the heartfelt response. As she read Frans message she felt her heart race, that sounded perfect, time away from California to a place where he girls might actually get to play in the snow for Christmas.
Everything sounded so great and as she got to the end of the message she saw Frans name and number, she picked up her cell and dialed the number and after a few rings she heard, "hello". Penelope said, "I need to speak to Fran please", she grinned and said, "this is her", Penelope said, "hi it's me, Penelope", Fran said, "ohhh I was hoping that I would hear from you".
Penelope took a deep breath and pushed a lock of hair out of her face and said, "your message was so sweet and thoughtful and I think that me and my girls would love and spend the holidays with you and your family". Fran said, "ohhhhh that's great", Penelope said, "are you sure that you have enough room"?, she laughed and said, "ohh yes definitely, trust me room for everybody won't be a problem".
The two then sat and spent the next few minutes getting to know each other, by the time the call ended Penelope knew that her husband and son worked for the FBI and that their extended family had to little boys one 6 and 1 5. Penelope said, "my girls are going to love having somebody to play with", Fran said, "and from what I'm hearing we are suppose to have a white Christmas".
Penelope said, "my girls have never had a white Christmas, they've never seen snow before", Fran laughed and said, "well then in that case we will have to make sure that they get to make snowmen, snow angels and get to do sledding". She said, "I'll have to make sure that I take plenty of pictures that's for sure" causing both Fran and Penelope to laugh".
Before the call ended Penelope said, "we will see you on the 20th", Fran said, "call us before you board and we will be there to pick you up", she said, "awwww thank you so much I appreciate that". Fran said, "not a problem, either me and my husband or me and my son will be there to pick you up", Penelope said, "today is the 18th so I will get our tickets bought and our stuff packed and before we board the plan I will call you to let you know".
Penelope bit down on her lip and said, "I'll see you on Friday Fran", Fran said, "see you Friday Penelope" and after the call ended Penelope laid the phone down on the couch beside her and said, "this Christmas is going to be good for me and my girls, I just know it". She then went on line and purchased tickets for her and the girls before getting up and heading upstairs to get started on packing, she only had 2 days and she knew that it would take a long time to get the girls packed because they were just like her and that meant that they would want to pack everything causing her to laugh and shake her head as she headed to her room to start packing.