Gingerbad

Judy asked, "Where did you get a giant gingerbunny cookie?"

Nick grinned. "We baked them, of course."

"Them? How many-"

"Only a dozen. We would have made more, but we ran out of flour."

Judy looked at the cookie again, which was nearly as big as she was. "How did you even bake this? It's too big to fit in the oven."

"We borrowed Rita's kitchen."

"You borrowed… how did you even turn an elephant-sized oven on?"

"Oh come on, Fluff. That was easy. Mixing the dough and rolling it out was the hard part."

"And Holly helped?"

"Of course. Oh and she learned two new words today. 'Cookie' and another one she may have heard me say when I burned myself taking out the first batch."

"Uh-huh. Where is she now?"

"Taking a nap on the couch." Nick hesitated for several moments, before adding, "I dunno how to prepare you… you'll just have to see for yourself."

Nick followed Judy into the living room where they found Holly asleep, her arms wrapped around a partially eaten cookie that was twice her size.

Judy couldn't help but smile as she said, "I should be so mad at you right now."

Whirl'd Peas

"You had one job, Nick."

"And it's done, Fluff."

"But you sent invitations to my entire address book!"

"I thought you said to invite everyone? It took forever to write out every name and address, by the way. And my tongue may never recover from licking all those envelopes."

"Why did you change the wording I gave you? You put and guests on the invites. Not just one guest, Nick. Guests. You do realize that you've pretty much just invited all of Bunnyburrow to our wedding, right?"

"It's still not too late to elope, you know."

Deck the Halls

Judy looked at the painting of a goat headed thing that Nick was holding. "You aren't hanging that up."

"But it's fox tradition!" Judy looked at him dubiously as he continued. "It's supposed to remind kits to be good, or he'll show up and throw them in a basket and take them away."

"What does he do with them?"

"I think he eats them or something."

Judy laughed and shook her head. "That thing will probably give me nightmares, so there's no way we're going to terrorize our daughter with it."

Author's Note: It's a picture of Krampus, for those who don't know.

Yule Like It

Nick never cooked for himself, so Judy figured he'd appreciate a home cooked meal. She wasn't the greatest cook in the world, but her mom had insured Judy's culinary skills were at least passable. Now that she had a new place with a kitchen, Judy was looking forward to cooking again, and making Nick dinner seemed like a great way to break in her new cookware. Though she'd never prepared meat before, and she didn't think her mom would be much help.

Judy spent the afternoon zoogling for recipes as the chicken thawed before she got to work. She hadn't counted on nearly vomiting when she opened the package and touched the shiny pink flesh. Judy sliced the meat into chunks, her stomach lurching as she tried not to think about how she was chopping up another animal. Cooking it was worse. The smell was horrible, and she ran to open the window as the meat sizzled in the skillet.

Of course Nick realized immediately what she'd made for dinner when he stepped through the door that evening. He hugged Judy and kissed her right between the ears. "Thanks for making dinner, Carrots, but you know I'm a vegetarian, right?"

Over the River

"This is a terrible idea, Carrots. I don't think I'll even fit."

"Where's your sense of adventure, Slick Nick?"

"I think I left that behind when you thought getting into an elephant-sized picnic basket, so we could literally be carried somewhere to visit a wolf crime boss, was a good idea."

Judy laughed. "I'm pretty sure the elephant coming to pick this up won't be wearing a red cape."

Nick shook his head as she hopped into the basket. He clambered in behind her and closed the lid. "Cozy. But if we end up in hell I'll never forgive you."

Stop It!

It was their first holiday together as a family, and Judy wanted to make it special. She knew Nick's holidays as a kit hadn't been great, so she'd done all the things that had made her holidays special. A big celebration with some of her family and all of their friends, decorations everywhere, including not one but two trees, gingerbunny cookies, mistletoe, nonstop music. But if anything it all seemed to put Nick in an even less festive mood.

Judy hadn't been able to find the right gift for him yet, so one evening she joined Nick while he held Holly, who was asleep after he'd read a bedtime story to her.

"Hey Slick, you doing ok?" Nick nodded, and she slid under his free arm and snuggled against him. "What else can I do for you to make this holiday special?"

Nick grinned. "It looks like you've got everything set for the kiddo here."

"But I'm not asking about Holly. What is it that you want?"

Nick sighed and smiled as he looked into her eyes. "Judy… I already got everything I didn't even know I wanted, and it's sitting right here on the couch with me."