Chapter 11
The kids all came down after a while and sat in the living room. They were waiting for rest of the family to show up since they were going to be celebrating Christmas together. After a little while in walked Bill and Charlie along with their families, the kids were excited to see that everyone was able to see that everyone was able to make it to the house. Arthur and the boys went outside to set up the tents that the families were going to stay in during the Christmas vacation. They came back in several minutes later laughing at the twins who were covered in snow.
"Come on, dad, you have to admit that it was a good idea," Fred said.
"Yea but you know that your mother will want to know why it looks like you boys haven't been helping us with the tent," Arthur answered.
They all walked into the living room and sat down, Molly brought in a tray of hot chocolate for all of them.
Ron and Hermione sat there and looked at each other. It was hard for them to believe that they would be parents in June. They looked over to Harry and Ginny and then thought about what their lives were going to be like when the children were born.
"Ginny, do you think that you are going to have girls or boys," Hermonie asked.
"I want one of each but knowing my luck it will be two boys," Ginny answered.
"Boys are not that bad," George piped in.
"I know but I really want a little girl," Ginny said.
"I just want healthy children," Harry said without hesitating.
Molly walked over and gave Harry a hug and whispered into his ear that he was right; all that mattered was that the children were healthy.
Harry and Ginny sat there hand in hand as the others got up and started to move around the burrow.
Molly looked at her baby girl and then thought about everything that she had already been through and she wasn't even an adult yet. Molly thought about the birth of Bill and hoped that Ginny and Harry, along with Ron and Hermione known what they were in for. It wasn't going to be easy but she knew that the kids could handle it.
Christmas Morning at the Burrow
All of the kids got up early and heading down to the sitting room to wait for everyone else so they could open their presents. Ginny and Hermione laughed as they saw that there were present for the twins and they were not even born yet. As everyone else came into the sitting room it became very crowded but it didn't seem to bother anyone.
As the presents were being handed out Molly and Arthur looked around at their family and how it had grown so much in the last few years. It seemed that every addition to the family added something good.
Before long the wrapping paper was all over the place and the present had all been unwrapped. The girls had gotten several outfits for the babies along with books and other things that would help to keep the babies entertained for hours on end.
"Those gifts will come in handy in the next year when I am trying to study and get my homework done," Ginny said laughing.
Harry looked at her and then remembered that Dumbledore had offered them a room at Hogwarts so Ginny could finish her last year of school. Molly looked around the room and then realized that she had forgotten a gift and ran up stairs to get it. She walked down stairs and told Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Harry to close their eyes. Then she and Arthur laid the boxes on the kids' laps. They opened the gift and were amazed at the bassinets that they had.
"They will grow long as you need them to so they babies will have enough room to sleep," Molly said.
Ginny and Hermione both got up and thanked Molly and Arthur for the bassinets.
"Now both of our kids will have their own bed to sleep in," Ginny said.
The kids all got up and started to move everything upstairs. Arthur headed upstairs too and helped them put the bassinets together so they would know how much room they would have with them set up.
All of the kids decided that they couldn't wait for the babies to be born and that they were getting closer to be ready for the baby birth, since they getting more and more of the stuff that they needed.
Arthur and Molly had decided that they would take everyone out for Christmas dinner, since the burrow wasn't big enough to handle everyone at once. They all headed down stairs after they were ready to go and they were waited in the sitting room for the rest of the family to get ready to go. After everyone was ready to go they headed out. They were all having a good time laughing and spending time together. They forgot for a little while that the kids were going to be parents in only 5 months. It was a nice change from the norm that they had been going through in the last four months. Molly and Arthur looked down the table and saw their children and their children's spouses and realized that their job as parent was coming to a close and that they would have to let their children learn from trial and error and no longer just tell them what to do.
After dinner they walked around the town and then headed home to relax and enjoy the time that they had with their children. For once they were not going to worry about the tasks that had to get done around the house, they were just going to enjoy the time that they had to spend with their children. They knew that they only had a few more days until the kids would have to head back to school and they wanted to spend as much time as they could with the kids.
