I've heard about at the end of previous wars there is a baby boom. This maybe the beginnings the end of Voldemort War. With luck, I'll have no surprises on the 30th and 31rst and I could celebrate the New Years preferably not alone...
Last summer I hit an all-time emotional low point because of the atmosphere around my parents' house. An afternoon round the tea table helped clear the air and opened up a dialog between me and my mum.
Tonight, Megan and I got together with an honorary 'Puff' for our Girls Night Out and got caught up on all the gossip and events in our lives that we don't always share via owl post. Then, when we were contentedly stuffed on fondue, we delivered some of our boxes of chocolates.
There wasn't anything to be done about my parents, to get them here for Christmas; I wasn't happy about it, yet I was already settled with that. But with Hermione's mum and Nana, we knew where they were and how to contact them - and after a few things she'd said in the past few weeks, I knew just what would brighten Hermione's Christmas beyond anything else.