1st December, one month later
Jac had returned after three weeks and settled in fine. The work rota had been organised (by Jac) so that she, Jonny and Mo were always on the same shift. That while whilst Emma was at school, they could take Max with them and there would always be one of them to look after him. Generally, it was Jac because she was doing more office work than normal because she couldn't be in theatre for more than 4 hours.

Jac was happy with life; she had an amazing family, a job she loved doing, friends who would do anything for her and she was a new person after having her uterus removed. It removed the usual monthly events; extreme mood swings, severe abdo pain which also caused nausea and to top off the constant period pain for a few days, the endometriosis cramps were worse when she was on.

But now all of that was behind her. The weight that she needed to lose to return to her normal weight after having Max reached had totalled 23lbs. And so far, she had lost 9lbs, and she was still going.

Her wound from the hysterectomy had completely healed and though Jac had to take it easy, she didn't suffer much pain from it. She often took Max for walks in his buggy during her breaks and there was a new healthy eating plan in the Maconie household (which unluckily for Jonny excluded alcohol completely.)

Jac was sat breastfeeding Max on the sofa in her office. She had gotten so used to it that she didn't really care if some nurse walked in. She still fed Max if Elliot was working at his desk because she knew him so well and she was comfortable with him being in the same room whilst she breast fed.

Jonny knocked on the office door which every medical professional on the ward had learnt to do since Jac had returned.
"Who is it?" Jac asked, she was sitting with her back towards the door leaning against the side of the sofa with her knees brought up to her chest where she was cradling Max whilst she fed him.
"Your husband." Jonny stated as he entered and closed the door behind him. Jonny sat on the sofa next to Jac.

"You wanted to see me?" Jonny stated, he had been paged just moment ago.
"Yeah um... I know we don't normally celebrate christmas but I was thinking... Maybe this year we could have a family christmas." Jac said slowly was she watched Max. Even in the 9 years that they had had Emma, they hadn't had a family's christmas.

It brought back painful memories for both of them and it was also due to Jac's insecurities. She had always know that he had the option to run or leave. But getting married only a few months ago had given Jac the confidence she needed to trust that Jonny would never leave her.

It seemed silly that a bit of paper could give her so much reassurance but it was true.

"Really?" Jonny asked, slightly taken aback.
"Yeah. I mean... It's not really fair that Emma doesn't get to celebrate it when her friend do." Jac stated. They had told Emma that they don't celebrate christmas because they weren't Christians and she had accepted that when she was younger.

Jac had gotten the idea of a 'family' christmas when she had been shopping and she saw all of the lights, trees and decorations. Then she had seen the children's toys, presents and wrapping paper and she couldn't help but smile in the store.

"When you say 'family christmas'..." Jonny trailed off wondering how into the christmas spirit Jac was going to get.
"The full shebang. Tree, lights, presents everything." Jac replied.
"And I assume Mo would be included in the 'family' Christmas."
"Of course." Jac agreed.

"Seeing as it's the 1st of December today, does that mean we can get advent calendars?" Jonny asked, he was excited as a child on Christmas Morning.
"Only if you get me one." Jac said as she smiled. Jonny leant in and kissed Jac on the lips before he brushed his thumb gently on Max's cheek.

"This will be my first proper family christmas." Jac stated says they both looked down at Max.
"Me too." Jonny stated.
"But I thought your sisters..." Jac trailed off. She remembered meeting Rosie on the day of their wedding and Jonny said that Rosie had raised Jonny like her own son.

"We never really had the money to do the big christmas thing. And for the first few years after Mum and Dad... Passed away. It just didn't seem right. I suppose we just kind of settled into a tradition of not celebrating it." Jonny explained.

"Anyway, must get on. We can talk about it later yeah?" Jonny said as he stood up to change the subject.
"Okay. Love you." Jac smiled cheekily.
"Love you too" Jonny replied as he left her office and quietly shut the door behind her.

Thank for reading, I know it's short but I thought you'd prefer short updates more regular than longer ones every few days. I've got soo much work to do and I'm sorry about the lack of updating. I have 9 days off (half term) and I've got a hell of a lot of work to do so sorry but I'll try to update as often as I can.

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