I do not own Hetalia okay? I am coming closer to the end here so I hope you enjoy. Enough of this A/N, on with the fic!

December 25th 1918

(from the diary of Natalya Jones nee Arlovskaya)

Today was a very happy yet bittersweet day. It being Christmas day, Fredka went to great pains to make sure the children had a very happy Christmas. It's part of the childlike wonder and he always looks forward to this time of year and for months said that Vanya would be back for this. Well technically yes, but not in a way that can really be felt. Ever since he fought the Spanish flu, he claims to see Vanya's ghost off and on. Why haven't I yet if he is haunting this house? Then again it may just be his mind coping with the loss and I don't want him getting mad at me. I just find it funny because before what he reported with his fever delusions he was petrified of ghosts.

The children loved their gifts. Fredka was going to get Nikolai a bat and baseball but he's still too little. He insists on one for his birthday though. Oh dear. Well if Nikolai breaks windows, Fredka will have to repair them. Matvey made a wooden soldier set for Nikolai as well and some smaller toys for Ivan and Anya. They also got a set of those popular Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls and played with them for a little bit but since Katy gave them Vanya's childhood plush animals, if I can call those things that as they look like an animal not yet known to science, they kept to them like crazy. It's a shame that that is the contact with their uncle they will ever know. I've been making sure they are taken care of and fixed any holes as they are rather old and I am just surprised they survived this long. Matvey said he had found them on Vanya's pillows when he was cleaning the room. Imagine that he had slept with them right before he left. The idea of such an imposing 31 year old man still cuddling up to a childhood relic. I can't be too critical. The way Fredka holds onto me sometimes makes me wonder how a teddy bear or the like would hold up. But I am his wife, and he is supposed to hold onto me. Who knows, as much as I loved him, there are things about Vanya I never understood.

And Matvey finally made his relationship with Katyusha public. Fredka and I knew before he told us he was going to, and I was worried when he told us his plans he had soiled her virtue so to say. Not like they didn't have the chance to do something like that and she has been talked into the notion before. I'm glad she has someone who cares about her and will provide. Finally. Was beginning to wonder on both of them if they'd just be lonely forever.

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