Chapter 1
Atlanta, GACharles
Atlanta, GACharles
PHILIP AND I dealt with a growing list of social obligations after the Christening, and we hosted a Christmas party for my office about a week before Christmas. I was pleased that Andrew and Emily could attend, as they’d been out of the country at the time of the Christening. Andrew and I had kept in contact by telephone every ten days or so, so he was up to speed on what was happening in our lives, as well as what was going on at the office. We’d told both him and Emily to consider themselves to be honorary grandparents to the boys, and the pleasure on their faces at that announcement was obvious.
We had, by comparison, a fairly quiet Christmas celebration at home for Gran, Philip, and myself. The gang came over Christmas Eve, and we exc
