3rd Person

“Okay, so how’re we gonna do this?” Paisley asked, sitting around a large piece of construction paper with her siblings. Ryder -who had the best handwriting of all four – had written “Operation Santa” at the top of the page. Other than its title however, the page was entirely blank.

“Well, we know the North Pole’s at the top of the world, right?” Riley asked, waiting until the others nodded in agreement before continuing. “So if we just keep walking north then eventually we’ll have to get there!”

“Yeah but that could take ages!” Parker cautioned. “

The Dark Moon pack is north, but there’s at least two other packs between us and the pole.”

“Tha’s a good point.” Ryder agreed, “So maybe if we travel to one of the other packs and start there?”

“Yeah! But we can’t take too long, we have to make sure we can get there and back afore Christmas.” Paisley warned.

“Maybe we can get a ride back with Santa!” Riley suggested, her eyes sparkling with excitement.

“Wow, that would be amazing!” Ryder giggled.

“Okay so what do we need?” Paisley asked. “Really warm coats, snow boots, snacks..”

“Maybe some fish in case we need to d’stract any polar bears.” Parker mused aloud.

“Ooh, good idea.” Riley nodded, starting a list o their paper.

“We should also take hot cocoa, and marshmallows, to help stay warm.” Ryder added. “I wish we knew how to ski, that would make getting there a lot faster.”

“How about a sled” Ryder asked, “if we make friends with one of the polar bears, they might even pull us!”

“This is the best plan.” Paisley praised, grinning.

“We still have to figure out how to get north first.”

Riley reminded them, “it’s gonna be miles and miles before we get anywhere near the arctic.”

“Hmm, we’re too little to drive.” Parker remarked thoughtfully.

a sleigh. What if we ask Mommy to go back to the tree farm, just for the bonfire one night. She’d probbly agree, and then we could take one of

protested, crinkling up

Ryder reasoned, “we’ll leave a note promising

we definitely need a compass.” Parker

think horsies have

Mommy too – so she knows

how Mommies can be, they worry ’bout everything.” Parker countered. “Member what Dr.

after us anyway.” Ryder agreed. “She doesn’ know how well we’ve planned everything. She’ll think we’re in

her. If we get a good enough head start then she won’t be able to catch up.” Paisley

let’s do it!” Riley chirped. “Ryder, you write the , Parker you get the s’pplies.

The others grinned, “Deal!”

Christmas tree farm. She’d been hoping they would decorate the tree together that evening, but she was just glad the pups wanted to continue doing activities together. They’d been through such a difficult ordeal that she was willing to do just about anything to raise their spirits, besides, they

s’mores before cuddling up with the pups in front of the fire. The trees surrounding them on all sides had been strewn with lights, and it truly felt like a winter wonderland. She tried not to think about Ethan, about how wonderfully he would have

on her babies, praying they didn’t ask to go back

for Christmas?” She asked, gently guiding Paisley’s hands to avoid

overheard their conversation with Santa. They knew exactly what they wanted, but they also realized she wasn’t going to get

one of those big beautiful art sets they have in the craft store?” She asked Ryder, stroking his

He replied, his attention focused on his own marshmallow. The pups were determined to put their plan into motion, but they’d

think about a chemistry set – you

to get us fancy

will take care of our

too. She’d gone to her first therapy session the other day, and her doctor had advised her to

to smile, “but I want to get you something too. Riley, any

was. “I don’t know about that – you’d have to take care of it.” She had to admit that a bunny was less work than some

children’s attention, and they

promise we’ll take extra

be so ‘sponsible you’ll never have to lift a finger.” Ryder

some new socks?”

wants smelly

a nice mop, so we can

Ryder

fun.” Riley remarked

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