Tis the season!

[shimmerandsing]

The only thing better than Christmas at home with her husband and family was Christmas at home with her husband, family, and friends. Alison had been eagerly awaiting the return of Rogue and Dakota's bunch to the castle for the holidays. She had already picked out a Christmas tree, which Longshot and John hauled home for her. It had lights on -- mostly Miyuki and Lisa's doing with Alison's supervision -- but, no ornaments yet. She figured that Gloria Jean and the boys could help with that when they arrived.

And they were coming early! That made it even better.

Despite her decreased mobility, Alison had been up early on the day they were scheduled to arrive. The castle was generally kept pretty clean, but she straightened anyway. And then... the baking! She hadn't felt such a strong urge to bake since the early months of her pregnancy. But, now, it was back in full force. By the time she finally tired of it, she had sugar cookies, gingerbread men, a gingerbread house, snowball cupcakes, and chocolate dipped pretzels.

She sat down in the kitchen to rest her feet and nibble on some gingerbread. Her little tea pot sat on the stove, happily brewing some peppermint tea. It might not be Christmas yet, but it sure smelled like Christmas.

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[clericpreston.livejournal.com]

Somewhere, John just got a chill.

Lisa smiled at Gloria Jean. "That's good. Your Dad's nice and I like Rogue. And I like you, so you should all be happy." Because she said so.

She didn't figure she'd ever have another mom of her own, but that was okay. She had Tasha and Alison, so she had enough mom'ing to go around.

Robbie sighed and nodded to Miyuki. He didn't want to move, but he supposed he had to. His ingrained sense of politeness wouldn't let him ignore guests any more than Miyuki's would.

"Okay, you're right. But, two weeks is going to make for a long wait." He might have pouted just a little bit.

[sonofarize.livejournal.com]

Longshot disappeared to the bathroom. Ahhhhh. Nice, relaxing pee. Though that wall behind the toilet was pretty boring to look at for more than five seconds.

Miyuki reached over and grabbed Robbie's hand. "We're ninja," she reminded him with a grin. "We will find way and place to be alone."

Longshot and Alison did it so often. There had to be a trick to it. Especially since Alison was nowhere near being a ninja.

[pastthegumbo.livejournal.com]

"Need any help with the bakin', too?" Rogue asks. She starts a little distracted by her husband before getting back to paying attention to Alison by the end of the statement.

Then she blinks at the question she should have asked. "Well, Ah'll be damned," she mutters appreciatively.

[light-in-sound.livejournal.com]

"I always welcome help with the baking. More help means more baking." She grinned. Brownies seemed like they were in the works now, too. Yay! Or -- "How do you feel about gingerbread houses?"

She laughed at Rogue's expression. "I think it was inevitable. But, it's still adorable. I'll give you some of the more entertaining stories later."