Christmas morning arrived. Trish and Jake walked through the resident rooms and sang Christmas carols and told the children it was time to rise and shine. Breakfast was being served.
The children excitedly got up and got ready and practically ran to the cafeteria. They didn’t even notice the door to the common room was closed.
Last night everyone went to the Christmas eve service at church. Jake had noticed most of the children were solemn when they had returned home. He understood, for most of them, they may not even remember their last Christmases at home, they did not realize what they had missed. He was sure all of them had remembered their most recent Christmases when they had been prisoners. He doubted any of them had even gotten a gift during those years. He smiled when h
