Chapter 366

• Presents carefully stowed away, it's all hands on deck to help prepare for the extended family to come for Christmas lunch. Even I've been put to work, folding napkins around silverware for all of the attendants. Well that, and minding Theo, who's sitting on my lap playing with a ball that rattles when he shakes it. And even though I'm not technically cooking, I've put on my new apron from Eloise to give it it's first test drive. It has pockets at the front and the yellow instantly puts me into an already brighter mood than I was originally in.
• "Can we turn this crap off?" Rhode groans as the Christmas music station plays over the loud speaker. Bianca leans over and hits his arm with a spatula. Rhode chuckles slightly as he helps Eloise peel some more potatoes. "Oh come on, it's barely a swear word. Plus she's in the living room" Rhode points out. I turn to see Briella happily kneeling on the floor in front of a new dolls house that Michael's quickly assembled. Apparently being a doctor also means you're a whizz at building flat pack dolls houses, something to remember.
• "Still she's repeating everything lately. I was talking to Angie on the phone the other day and I said 'S-H-I-T' and Briella started singing it to herself under her breath while she was doing her colouring" Bianca explains. I bite my lip to stop myself from giggling, but Eloise and Claudia are in fits at just the mere mention of it.