This is it, my life right here in the living room. Finishing up medical school, I never pictured this. Heck, honestly I never pictured being married more less having two wonderful kids because I honestly thought I would be to old by time I got everything done and got comfortable before I would even start dating again.

Jack and Nicolas though took my heart the day they left being discharged and found me before I could find them. It is hard to imagine that was almost a year ago in just a few days. So much has happened in a year to getting married, adopting Nicolas, and giving birth to Eve this morning.

"Okay, there is one thing missing that we all seem to have forgot." I speak up.

"What's that snowflake?" Jack rubs my arms.

I sit up and smile brightly to him and Nicolas. "It is Christmas day. We got gifts to open."

Nicolas's eyes widen and he walks over from the bassinet.

"I didn't even think of that either because my gift is right here with the three of you." Jack smiles to us.

"Cheesy." I laugh as Nicolas starts pulling gifts out.

"Here little man, let me help." I go to stand but he quickly dashes over.

"I got it Mama, you sit down and relax. It is my thing to do now by handing out gifts." Nicolas beams at me.

"You sound just like your grandpa." I laugh and pull him in for a hug.

"I am learning from the best." Nicolas smiles and goes back to pulling out the gifts.

I can feel Jack laughing behind me with how his chest is rising and falling rapidly. I sit back up and next to him.

"Hey, I love you laying on me like that. Our son pushed you to lay there to knowing it is how we sit when on the couch together." Jack amuses over it all.

"I lay on his chest facing him. "You have raised him amazing Jack, he will be a brilliant young man before we know it." I kiss his kips.

"We are raising him now and you have done just as amazing. He has even learned more than I could teach him especially with all that medical stuff." Jack chuckles.

"That was more of him teaching himself with my medical books." I smile and turn back around.

Nicolas has four different piles for each of us in the house. Eve got a two little boxes even though she is to young to open them and we didn't know she would be here it just felt like she needed to have a little something too.

"Okay Nicolas you get to go first." I smile at him by his gifts.

Paper is shredded and at first he was taking it slow, not wanting to wake up Eve. Jack and I both told him to enjoy himself that she would be just fine because it is not like he gets loud or squeals.

"Thank you both so much! These are amazing." Nicolas looks over all the toys and crafts.

"There is the stand that I have to build up for you and will do that very soon." Jack nods.

"This stand is so cool and then I can put my books on it along with the puzzles I put together and make 3D figures out of instead of paper weights." Nicolas rubs his hands.

"That was the idea to the shelving." I laugh, glad to see him happy about that item.

"Your turn, snowflake." Jack moves his hand to my small pile.

I smile and start to open mine up. Nicolas comes up and sits next to me. The first one is a little Christmas charm with a tree. The second one I open shocks me as it is pens with my name engraved.

"I love them." I smile.

"They are refillable and now you will not lose pens." Jack laughs.

"Hey now it happens easily but these will be the best and won't get lost." I laugh.

"This was for after Eve was born." Nicolas hands me the last small box.

I open it and my eyes water looking at the beautiful ring.

"It is a Mothers rings." Jack whispers.

It has both Nicolas and Eve's birth stones. "This is perfect." I whisper and sniff back the tears.

Jack slides it on my right ring finger and kisses me gently. I break from the kiss and give Nicolas a tight hug.

"I love it all thank you both."

Jack opens his gifts and loves everything he got. He laughs so hard with the boot warmers and we join in with him.

We spend the day talking while Christmas music plays lightly in the background. Nicolas starts playing with his things in the living room as he unboxes them. Jack gets to work on putting the shelving together and Nicolas asks for it to be in the living room rather than in his, so we agree and it now sits against the wall before going around to the hall for the front door.

We stop briefly to make dinner and the laughter never stops even while cleaning up the kitchen.

The Chistmas lights are shining bright in our home with the sun already set for the night. Jack turns the music up just a tad bit more to where we can all hear it better and it not bother Miss Eve asleep in her bassinet.

Nicolas puts a Christmas hat on my head and we dance around a little in front of the tree after I nurse Eve again. Once the fun upbeat Christmas song is over, Nicolas walks to Eve and watches her sleep more. Jack takes the chance and grabs my hips swaying me to the soft Christmas song.

His smile right now is everything with how he looks at me. Even though I feel a little giddy wearing the Santa hat.

"It is fun to think this is our second Christmas together and it is just beginning." I smile up at him.

"This is how I want every Christmas you, me, and our two amazing kids." Jack whispers pulling me in closer to him.

"I wouldn't want it any differently either Jack."

I still think about our first kiss in the snow. We have made a point to make sure when the first snow fall happens we get a kiss out in it together.

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