I was fruitlessly looking at hotels on my tablet when the text message came in.  When I heard the alert, I grabbed the phone and saw the message was from my sister. “Mom wants 2 know when ur coming home?” the message read. “Not sure.  I’m trying to figure a couple of things out,” I typed in response.  A moment after I hit send, my phone started ringing.  It was my sister again.  She didn’t even give me a chance to say any...

The next day was a full one.  Jemma was already gone to a family gathering by the time I awakened, and Holly was on her way out the door to work.  Thankfully, my sister had chosen less sexy attire, because once she got off work, I was around her for the rest of the day at our mother’s house.We had lunch, played cards, had dinner, watched A Christmas Story, and then went on the traditional Christmas light cruise.  Grandma...