I don't own Hetalia okay? I don't have much else for this opening. Anyway, enough of this A/N, on with the fic!
December 25th 1923
(from the journal of Katyusha Williams nee Braginsky)
While I was not having Christmas with my sister and her children, something I have grown to love ever since Nikolai was born, I have to say that seeing children's faces light up when they get their gifts or enjoy one too many candies and cookies even though it is in the spirit of the holiday. Roderich had actually made some of the sweets this year. He is quite good with the marzipan, I was surprised. But then again Eliza and Roderich aren't exactly traditional. But she did like the jam I had given her. I had an abundance this year from that garden. I had started it and made sure to plant perennial everbearing strawberries and fruits. Looks like I will have to start that again when we do move out to California. Northern California, but still California, the same state Natalya is in with the children. They sound like they like it. I do understand that the climates are different but it's still pleasant and beautiful. Winters can be rough but I can handle them. I do say that Maria did like the plush bear I made for her it seems and they have gotten a great use out of Louise's old clothing. Which is funny is some of them were Anya's that I had fixed up. She may not have been as active as her brothers but she did manage to make a few nice tears in her clothes I had to fix.
I had saved Matvey's best gift for when we got home. He had told me Mr. Seward was interested in helping the Jones and Braginsky families as they were some of his best and favored employees. And because of that, I had told him about the fact Matvey was missing his wife and kids from his new job and it was killing him inside and because Mr. Seward knew Vanya's love of family well and I was able to get him to agree that it would be a disservice to his memory to keep the father of his niece and nephew and husband of his sister waiting longily in such a dangerous job. I didn't tell him about what Fredka did but then again he knew the lucky dare devil as he was called well. Well he got Matvey the Yosemite ranger job and worked everything perfectly for us. We will be selling the house to his business partner and part of me feels bad that it was the house we bought when we came to America, the one that Vanya worked so hard for and made sure I had a place even after he died. But I am sure he would understand. It was not for a frivolous reason. Memories are made by moving on sometimes. If we clung to the past, I would never have met him in the first place. We never would have risked our fates and came here. I honestly worry what would have happened to Natalya if she didn't have Fredka. Now the only people I feel sorry about is Eliza and Roderich. But then again Roderich said he was working with people who are trying to perfect sound in movies. He's not much of an engineer but plays music well and what they need to get moving pictures and sound on film. It amazes me what there will be in the future. I remember how limited things were as a child. I mean we had to use outhouses and chamber pots and now I have running water in my home. I have never been so hopeful. Especially after seeing Matvey's joy.
So how was that? Good? Bad? Short? Long? Let me know in a review. I don't quite know how long this one will be just yet as the other I had a more defined plan. But the way it is going this one will be longer than the other. One is over a few years, this a whole decade practically. Anyway, remember to read (well you just did) and to review. Ciao for now,
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