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Author's Note: Hi there everyone! Well we've finally come to the end of this holiday story! I apologize again for not having it finished sooner but I hope you all have still enjoyed these remaining chapters. Thank you all so much for all of the kind support, I'll be elaborating on this more at the end, I'm so glad you all liked the last chapter :). Sorry the chapter's a little short but hopefully it's still enjoyable. Please do review if you have the chance. Hope you like, thanks for reading and please, Enjoy!
"And he almost did." Edith stated, "It was a good thing I put all the trays in the kitchen just before Maude said something."
Archie smirked with a hint of pride, as the other three laughed some.
"This is nice." Stephanie said aloud.
"It is." Gloria agreed as she shared a smile with her husband.
Edith smiled as well, "It seems like something out of an old Christmas movie."
"We should do this every year!" the young girl declared and the four seemed to agree so she decided to add to her statement, "Maybe adding some gift openings too?"
Both Edith and Gloria frowned at her while her uncle agreed with her, "I second that Rose Marie."
"It's already four in the morning." Gloria suddenly said in a surprised tone of voice.
"Wow, four o'clock in the morning looks a lot like three thirty in the morning." commented Stephanie earning her some questioning stares from both her aunt and uncle; she quickly tired to recover, "You know from the pictures I've seen in books."
It didn't satisfy them much but they decided to let it slide.
"You know, I'm surprised the kids aren't up yet." Mike said changing the subject, last year Joey had woken up at two in the morning but was told to go back to bed, he then waited another hour before waking his two year old sister who he knew was not easy to put back to sleep.
Archie ran his hand down his face, his tiredness obviously taking over him, "Yeah, well if they're anything like their mother, it won't take 'em long."
Gloria nodded, "I think Daddy's right. Maybe we should get some sleep before they wake up."
It didn't take much convincing to get the family to agree to those plans. Mike, Gloria, Archie, and Edith stood up from their seats and walked upstairs after saying goodnight to Stephanie who covered her head with the blanket as she laid on the couch. Once the couples had made it up the stairs, they quietly said their goodnights before silently entering their respected rooms.
Archie and Edith took off their robes in silence and climbed into bed. Not a second went by after Archie rested his head on his pillow, before Edith snuggled against him; he didn't complain though.
"See wasn't this nice?"
"Yeah." Archie replied sounding a bit drowsy.
"And we didn't even have to go nowheres." Edith continued.
"Yeah, I guess youse was right Edith. Kids don't ruin Christmas."
Edith gave another smile as she felt her husband wrap his arm around her, and then joined him in closing her eyes and trying to get some sleep. Just when the two were about to begin their winter's nap, a young childlike voice started screaming.
"It's Christmas!"
Then a little girl's voice was heard repeating the statement. Both Archie and Edith's eyes flew open as they heard their grandchildren in the other room.
"I take it back." Archie quickly said and Edith laughed as she looked up at her husband staying in the embrace. They hoped Gloria and Mike had the sense to send the kids back to bed but when their bedroom door came bursting open their hopes were dashed.
"It's Christmas!" Gracie yelled as she and Joey climbed onto their grandparents' bed
"Wake up Grandma! Wake up Grandpa!" Joey ordered as he and Gracie jumped up and down, just as they'd done on their parents' bed.
"Alright, Alright." Archie groggily said as he broke the hold he had o his wife.
"Why don't you two go and downstairs and wake Stephy, we'll be right there." Edith suggested as she sat up.
"Ok!" and then they were out the door, screaming their second cousin's name as they left.
Edith laughed some as she got out of bed and put on her robe, her husband however was taking his time. As she neared the doorframe Archie called her name causing her to turn around and see him sitting on his side of the bed putting on his robe.
"How about next year, we send them two away?" he suggested
Edith simply smiled before extending her hand to him, Archie grabbed it and the two walked out the door off to create a Christmas memory they hoped their family would retell some future Christmas Eve.
The End
Author's Note: And there you go the final chapter of "Home for the Holidays" I hope you liked!
Thank you all for all of your wonderfully awesome support, KayEn78, Marla's Lost, and Alex B. Goode. Without your wonderful words of support and encouragement this story would just be collecting dust, being brought out only during Christmas time for my own reading. I'm so glad that I could share it with you all and I'm even gladder that you all enjoyed it. Thank You!
I do have one more story that I'm thinking of posting up but it won't be until February or so and it's a shorter oneshot. Still gotta clean it up a bit too but I really am considering posting it up.
Thanks for everything it truly means so much!
Until next time, thanks for reading, hope you liked, please review and lemme know what you think, take care, have a nice day and remember only 355 days till Christmas!
