TRIVIA: What is Bobby's tradition? (clue: it's something I've joked about with him before.)

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"The snow stopped! The snow stopped! The snow stopped!" Mellody and Chris chanted as they hopped on Sue and Jack's bed early the next morning as the sun peaked through the clouds, blinding the couple.

"What's wrong?" Sue asked, not being able to read their lips because they were moving too much.

"No snow." Jack interpreted, signing and speaking, then pointed at the window. Squinting at the bright sun, he smiled, knowing what the sun meant.

"Oh!" She happily exclaimed. "That's a perfect Christmas Eve gift, right?"

He nodded as he got up and picked up and set down the kids back on the floor. "Yeah. I'll call the airline and see if we can get a flight out this morning."

She nodded. "You do that. I'm going back to bed. Goodnight." She said, throwing the blanket over her head.

"Oh, no you don't!" He laughingly replied, throwing himself on the bed and pulling the sheet back. "Merry Christmas." He whispered when she looked at him.

She smiled back. "Merry Christmas."

He gave her a quick kiss, then pulled away. "Alright, I'll go call."

She smiled. "Alright!"

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"I can't believe the snow finally stopped!" Tara happily exclaimed as slowly the team came downstairs for breakfast one by one.

"Yes!" Sue replied as she and the kids walked into the dining room, seeing what she said. "Jack's calling the airline now to see if we can get on a flight this morning!"

"Well, that's a bust." Jack announced, coming down the stairs.

Seeing everyone's worried looks, Sue turned around to find her husband. "What's wrong?"

"Because of the several day delay, there were hundreds of flights that were cancelled. We can't get on a flight until tomorrow night."

"We'll miss Christmas!" Mellody complained.

"No, not exactly." Millie said, hearing the group's dilemma as she came in with a stack of pancakes. "Christmas is wherever you are, as long as you have your friends and family around."

"That is true." Josh said, he and Mya walking in just in time to hear the scenario. "Other than Maddy not being here, just about all of us are with the people we were originally going to be with for Christmas, right?"

Everyone nodded.

"So why can't we celebrate Christmas here, together?" Mya asked.

The group smiled at each other. "That's a great idea!" Everyone exclaimed in unison.

"We can each do one tradition from each person." Sue suggested. "That way, no one will feel like Christmas didn't come!"

"Sounds fun to me!" Tara exclaimed.

"Then let's get going! We have lots of traditions to get through!" Mya happily exclaimed.

Bobby raised his hand. "I do have one tradition. And it's staring at me."

Everyone laughed, then sat down, excitedly planning their blended Christmas.

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"I win!" Mellody happily exclaimed, setting her Go Fish cards down. It was Tara's tradition to play games on Christmas Eve, so after breakfast, Millie brought out some games she had in a closet for reasons such as this.

"Yes, you did! 3 times in a row!" Tara exclaimed, chuckling. "Then again, I shouldn't be surprised. I won almost every Christmas Eve growing up as well."

"So," Sue started as she was picking up game cards. "Who and what is our next tradition?"

"We could do mine." Josh suggested.

"I don't think you ever told me what your Christmas tradition is." Mya replied in realization.

He embarrassedly smiled at her. "Because it's nothing special."

Myles suspiciously glared at him. "I think it's something more than that."

"Hey, yeah!" Bobby exclaimed, looking at him as well. "You're turning red!"

"If you keep teasing me, I'm not going to tell you at all!" He complained.

"We'll stay quiet, and we're not going to laugh, right?" Sue comforted, glaring at her husband and his best friend on the last part.

"Nope, promise you, no laughing allowed." Jack replied, looked at Bobby, then the two snorted in response.

"Come on guys!" Mya complained.

"Alright, we're good now." Bobby replied, the two sitting with stone faces, their eyes laughing.

Josh nervously looked at each one of them, then looked down. "We, we, we bake cookies." He said quietly.

"That's all?" Bobby asked, frowning.

"That's all?!" Josh repeated loudly, eyebrows raised.

He shrugged. "Some of the best bakers are men. Besides, those are the best things made in a kitchen!"

"So you don't think it's too girly?" Josh asked, looking at everyone.

Tara shook her head. "Nope! In fact, a long time ago, I had a boyfriend who could bake these amazing goodies. I almost married him just for that." She said, then laughed along with everyone else.

"And since we're all helping, no one can say it's too girly!" Sue happily replied.

Josh smiled, relieved. "I'm glad. I guess getting teased about it growing up set up a wall that I didn't know was there."

"Who would think that baking was a girls-only thing?" Mya complained.

He shrugged. "Mean kids at school, I guess."

She nodded in reply. "You just point them out, and I'll show them a thing or two, and they'll go crying to their mamas, something very girly." Everyone laughed in response.

"Well?" Bobby anticipatedly asked. "What are we waiting for? Let's bake!" He exclaimed, almost running to the kitchen. Laughing, everyone closely followed behind.