December 25th
And I do make it happen.
The family was skeptical at first. “It’s tradition to be at our parents’ house for Christmas,” Dylan grumbled, but I knew how to get around it. I enlisted Emily and Granny, and that was that; the rest of the Whipple family caved in the face of two such formidable women.
Poe called his mom, who was surprised but excited and promised to do her best to join, at least for a little while.
I also suggested Poe should invite Marshall and his fiancée, but that led to a heated conversation between us. He refused, saying that even though Moe was nowhere near as bad as his father and Dale, he was still under his father’s thumb, and Poe didn’t want to put him in the middle. I insisted that Marshall should be allowed to make that choice for himself, but Poe wa
