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Synopsis
“When you say you want a perfect Christmas, what is it you are envisioning exactly?”Dottie thought it over. “I’m not sure, Father. I know it involves family traditions in which everyone has a great time, seasonal foods that everyone loves, being generous to the needy and, of course, giving people gifts and it’s exactly what they wanted. And then transcending all the material aspects of the season with the Advent activities that keep everyone excited about the coming of our Savior’s birth. Also, affordable pistachios and lots of peppermint.”“That’s a pretty tall order,” he said with a low whistle.“Really? It doesn’t seem like so much.”As a Catholic mother and wife, Dottie is trying to find balance during the Christmas season. Despite her valiant effort, all her attempts at a perfect Christmas keep falling short of expectation.The budget is never enough. The kids run off with the Jesse Tree ornaments. The family barely cheats death at the tree farm. The Christmas newsletter is horribly misunderstood. The gingerbread house is more of a condemned shanty. And Christmas Eve dinner with the in-laws is sushi and key lime pie with plenty of cat hair on the side. Dottie pushes forward, seeking that ever-elusive perfection she knows just has to be on the other side of all the calamity, materialism and disappointment.It isn’t until every well-planned, expected thing goes wrong that Dottie realizes that from the unexpected things can come right. It all starts with a chance meeting at the church Christmas tree, where a heart-felt mother trying to do the best for her family, hilariously stumbles out of the dumpster fire of the holiday season and into the ashes of the perfect Christmas.
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- PublisherCape and Swordstick Press
- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 1736202707
- ISBN 13 9781736202708
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages152
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