A Christmas letter

Decorating the house, and a few words from Great-Grandma

4 min

The boys tell Aunt Chris about the soft-sculpture Santa on the stairs and how Kirby threw the tree bulbs across the room like baseballs. Then Agnes takes the microphone to say she visited relatives, had coffee, and then went back to Rose's, where the smallest boy kept telling everyone about his wristwatch.

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What Agnes says

Words in light grey italics were hard to hear, so they may not be exact.

Tell Chris what daddy's doing Kirby What's daddy doing? Milking house What's Daddy doing, Kirby? Milk and milk and milk and cowlis. It's here and now, okay, Mom? No, we got to talk to her some more. We got to tell her about all the pretty stuff that we made for our house.

We made a star, and then we put up our Santa. Yeah, we made a soft sculpture Santa and put him up on the stairway. Tell her what Kirby was doing. There it is right up there. Tell her what Kirby was doing with the Christmas tree bulbs when we put the tree up.

He got them more baseballs. He checked them across the room. Stop and he threw up.

Yeah, you throw everything, go ahead.

Grandma, why don't you talk to her for a while? Tell her what you've been doing today. Well. Can you reach? Yeah, yeah. I got it up real loud so Chris can hear.

So this is me for a few minutes.

And we went and seen Rosie or we went seeing Mary and come back. We come and see your father and mother. and your sister and so we stay there maybe 15 minutes and had a cup of coffee and of course we had to go home down to roses so he could go and milk his couch because he's going to go for some kind of a play basketball game so So she got his clothes ready and stuff ready, so he could go, you see.

But I had lots of fun here. He thought that the kids would be annoying me, but I liked it because the smallest one is talking everything correctly. He looked at my wristwatch and he says, this is my watch.

He looked at it. So he is pretty nice about everything. Wait a little if you ever see him in spring, you wouldn't know that it's a child in that little. Because he does every lesson. He makes everything. The two of them are naked.

They just come out of their thing and they come out of their bathtub. Where's Christmas? And he's looking into the machine. He wants to know where you are and where you are and everything. So I'll have to quit it.

And she's got to get ready for the little one. So he's going to go with his father to play ball. I'll see you later then. Tell her what Santa's going to bring you.