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 Alfred F. Jones)
Well this was a different Christmas this year in many ways. Normally we don't have weather this warm. I checked our thermometer because I hoenslty didn't believe it, but yes it was 60 degrees on Christmas day. Our neighbors said this is normal. I should know this, I mean that is why people come to California in the first place. It's just weird not seeing snow. Then again it wasn't always a white Christmas back in New York. It was cold though, so you knew it was. Although Nattie isn't too thrilled with me this year and DEMANDS I stay with Nikolai and Ivan. Both got them new BB guns as I think they are old enough to start to learn how to shoot, although I now need to make them take turns with Anya too because she was wondering what her older brothers were doing with some of the old soup cans. I don't think Ivan liked it so much because he said that girls shouldn't learn this and then she started crying. My little Anya Oakley as I called her. I was going to tell Ivan off but Nikolai did that. Well sort of, gave him an Indian Burn, so I had to tell him off for that too or else Nattie would show the kids what punishment was.
It was a little lonely without Mattie, Katy and their kids. Our neighbors are from Mexico and brought over some of their favorite Christmas foods and Natalya gave them some things she brought over from Russia. These are actually neighbors she likes. Raul works on the docks and actually is quite the shot himself. His wife Lupe seems to have taken to Nattie too. Although I don't think Nattie liked when I told Lupe her tamales were better than her pierogis…. I've made sure to send a lot of pictures back to Mattie and Katy, and even some to Roderich and Eliza. Sent that music snob some mariachi music. See what he says about that. Nikolai keeps trying to get Raul to tell him about the ocean and such. That boy loves the water so much. Says he wants to be a captain or a surfer. Okay. Nattie might approve of the captain more than the surfer thing. Then again, he's only 8, I wanted to be like Wyatt Earp when I was his age. Well in a way I did I guess, is Earp still alive? He's got to be older than dirt now that I think of it….. I mean if I remember correctly the gunfight at the OK Corrall he's so famous for was what, 7 years before I was even born? When we were moving out here, I did want to see Tombstone and I found a route from there to here but Nattie didn't allow it. She did allow us a trip to the Grand Canyon. So I guess there's that.
Note to self. Send that telegram to Matt and Katy tomorrow before work. You told Nattie you did it 3 days ago!
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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