PHOTO PROMPT © Jennifer Pendergast
A Christmas First
Jen curled, dreaming, warm with the heated mattress pad Will gave her for Christmas. Clanking metal sounds woke her from putting coconut oil on Channing Tatum’s back.
Jen yelled, “Hun, what’s that racket!?” just as Will walked into the bedroom with two large mugs.
“Hot cocoa, Babe, with mini-marshmallows!”
Jen wanted to burrow back into the warmth and Channing, but she couldn’t disappoint Will.
“Yummy!” she said as she sat up and looked out at pink dawn through frost-edged windows.
“We’ve had this place for twenty years but it’s our first Christmas here. Seems strange to see frosting on everything.”
[100 words]
Merry Christmas to All
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is the host of Friday Fictioneers.
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Haha, Channing Tatum, go back to sleep! Merry Christmas!
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:) Merry Christmas!
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Thank you!
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You’re welcome, Luanne.
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Merry Christmas dear friend, all the best.
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Thanks, Someone! Merry Christmas!
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Cute little story! Sorry, Channing, you’ll have to wait for later.
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Thanks, Nolcha :)
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If only Will knew
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lol!
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lol… dream time is over…Merry Christmas Lisa…hope you had a great one. We missed the Dylan movie but we will see it Friday or Saturday….taking my sister back home too late.
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The theater was a full house. Nice to be in a packed theater to share the experience with others.
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Yes it is…I’ve been looking so forward to this. We would have had to wait 4 hours…so we will be back.
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If you can, buy tickets ahead of time. It costs a few dollars but you get choice seats.
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Yea Bailey is part of a special program on tickets…he gets them for a good price. He goes that much because he goes to college in Clarksville and there are a lot of movie theaters there. He pays small dues to that ticket program but for him it’s worth it.
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Awesome! I just sent you an email.
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This is incredible, Lisa …. I’ve had that exact same dream! Fun write, great read! 😌
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Lovely scene.
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Thanks, Sadje.
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Most welcome Li 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
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Always lovely to discover our fell Fictioneers’ fantasies… ;-)
Love this, Lisa. Sounds like a beautiful place to wake up Christmas morning… but with coffee please, hot chocolate is too sweet to start my day!
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:) shhhhh don’t be telling my secrets now… How about Cafe Mocha, 50/50?
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I am definitely in for a mocha!!
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:::pushing mocha through screen::: ::::raising my mug o mocha to you::: Cheers!
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Sweet! and Cheers!!
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loved reading it…could visualize the scene…
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Nandini so glad you could :)
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Love the story, love hot cocoa.
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:::pushing hot cocoa through the screen::: Cheers!
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Okay, I confess. I had to look up who Channing Tatum is. I think I’d probably pass. Nice take though, and happy holidays.
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Sandra, please feel free to dream a hunk of your choosing :) I’ve always gone for the bad boys, what can I say. Thank you and happy holidays!
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This is absolutely incredible, Lisa. I had the exact same dream last night! 😂
Great write! 🌟
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I would love to have someone bring me coffee in bed. I think maybe the girls did it a few times for mother’s day. But I admit, I do not like to be disturbed when I’m sleeping.
BTW, the girls got me a heated mattress pad as an early birthday present after I mentioned it to them, and you are absolutely correct, it keeps me nice and toasty, even on those very cold nights we had last week. So thanks! (K)
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Kerfe I’m not sure I’ve ever had anyone bring me coffee in bed.
YES! on the heated mattress pad! So glad you are staying toasty warm with it.
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Lol what a dream! Sounds like a lovely moment you’ve created here
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I know I enjoyed imagining it was non-fiction.
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Dear Lisa,
It’s probably best that Jen doesn’t share her dream with Will. ;) Lovely little scene and I think more story to it. Happy Holidays. :D
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Rochelle, I think you’re right. Thanks for the kind words.
Shalom,
Lisa
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Hot Chocolate ? Oh, I love dat. :-D
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That reminds me of my first Christmas here, especially the Channing Tatum part. I grew up on the coast of Northern California where it snowed twice in my life. Only once was there actual snow on the ground in which we could play. Moving up here to Reno, I actual got to have white Christmases.
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Cool, Nobbin. Did you have to go up a mountain to get to the snow?
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Reno is in the mountains. I live just outside of Reno and about 1,000 feet higher, so we get snow even when Reno doesn’t. It doesn’t often last for more than a few days before most of it melts away, which is probably even better because I can’t drive in the snow.
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What made you decide to move so far up? Driving mountain roads with snow doesn’t seem real safe, so good choice.
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Three bedroom, two bath for $122,000. One can’t find that with a roof and doors in California. We’re not way out of the way. It’s only 5 minutes to the freeway and 15 to Walmart and Starbucks. I can walk to the mountain trails for hiking. It’s the best of both worlds. I do miss trees and beaches. The trees oddly shrink and almost disappear upon crossing the border from Cali into Nevada.
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WOW that is a bargain anywhere these days. Sounds like you are happy there. Trying to imagine mountain trails without trees. Above the “treeline”? Probably good when wildfires happen? Guessing their roots can’t find purchase on a mountain?
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It was 10 years ago, right before the prices skyrocketed. As my mom loves to say, “Timing is everything.”
I don’t know what it is. There are trees at a higher elevation coming in, but once you hit the border, they disappear. Maybe they just prefer California living.
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Have you ever been to The Salton Sea?
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I have not. Is that the one that’s so salty one can walk on it?
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May be. I know it smells of rotting tilapia but it’s a place I hope to see one day. There’s a doc out on it called, “Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea,” narrated by John Waters, with music by Friends of Dean Martinez that is quite good.
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I don’t think that’s the one I was thinking of. It sounds familiar. Didn’t you use that for an FF story once? Or am I getting my lakes confused?
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Nobbin, not sure if I did; maybe? I think it is either north or south of Palm Springs and 100 miles east of L.A.
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I just read an article about it. Who says our devices don’t monitor us? Somebody found lithium at the bottom of the lake. They think they can mine it for inexpensive clean energy.
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Oh really!? Hoping they don’t destroy the lake in the process? I know they were afraid that if it dried up the heavy metals would be blown into the air and harm people living in its path. Maybe harvesting it is a good idea.
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I’m not sure of the process, but it sounds promising.
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Lol! This was a fun read!
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:) Thanks, Carol Anne!
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