Besides being one of my entries in the Winter Holiday Contest, this is the fifth story in the Donna and Kevin series. It's mostly about a supremely happy new family celebrating their first Christmas together in a traditional way, but there is also quite a bit of sex in it.
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Donna and Kevin and Kerry and Kate O'Brien were about as happy as a family could be. Every day, either of the adults marveled that they could have been so undeservedly lucky as to have found the other, and felt eternally grateful that the other had been willing to marry and cast their lots together. The children, alternately ignored and abused by their birth mother, absolutely adored their stepmother and their father, and the feelings were completely mutual.
Six year old Kerry was looking forward to his first Christmas as a Big Boy, in particular to the Winter Holiday program to be put on by the school where he attended Kindergarten. He had a speaking part -- a four line poem he would render with three of his classmates -- and he constantly rehearsed it until he would have been capable of reciting it in his sleep. Two year old Kate didn't know exactly what was happening, but she knew it was something special, and she was eager to be a part of the festivities too.
Life had been exceptionally good to the adults since the previous Christmas. They had met, fallen head over heels in love and, as soon as Kevin's divorce became final, sworn eternal fealty to each other in a church full of friends. Not only their personal lives, but Kevin's career had flourished. A month earlier he had been informed that, after the first of the year, he would be recommended as the replacement of the retiring branch manager of the large regional CPA firm where he was a partner. That recommendation by the current manager would be certain to cinch for Kevin the corner office in the second floor of the tall commercial building where his firm's local branch was located.
That was a great advance in the world for him but, of more importance to the entire family, was the way he and Donna and the children all felt about each other. Within a few days of starting to live together, they had developed a morning routine. Kevin would arise the earliest and prepare coffee for himself and his beloved wife and warm milk and fruit, to be combined with whole grain cereal for the children.
After kissing Donna's cup where he knew she would be placing her lips, he took it to her and they enjoyed a few special minutes of togetherness in their room before preparing to start the day. After everybody had eaten breakfast and was properly scrubbed and clad, Kevin drove Katie to Mrs. Ortiz's Day Care Center, along with Donna, who worked there. His next stop was to drop Kerry off at Kindergarten, followed by driving himself to work.
The day care center would send somebody to fetch Kerry when his classes ended, a service for which they charged extra, and Kevin would stop and pick up everybody after his day at the CPA office ended. Neither of the adults ever felt like starting to cook dinner after working all day, so they would stop at one of the family-oriented restaurants they preferred, after which they would all go home and enjoy one another's company until it was time for bed. It was an unexciting life, but one all of them would have chosen over any alternative.
On December 18, which was the Friday before Christmas, there was to be a change in the usual routine. That was the big day for Kerry, when his class and his school would be putting on their Winter Holiday pageant, followed by no school for two weeks. Both Kevin and Donna would have chosen to cut off their own right hands rather than miss such an important event in their son's young life.
The last two weeks of the year tend to be quite slow at a CPA office, as most of their clients prepare to close out their books at the end of the year, and the CPA's get ready for tax season, so Kevin left work at noon on the 18th. He had also arranged to take the following week off. His first stop was at the school to pick up the budding entertainer and, from there, he went to Mrs. Ortiz's day care establishment, where Donna had also arranged to be off that afternoon. Most of the children would be with their own parents attending performances such as the one that Kerry's school was putting on, so there was no urgent need for her to stay with Mrs. Ortiz that afternoon.
Following a pleasant family lunch, they returned to Kerry's school, and he joined his fellow performers. Loving all children as much as she did, Donna had gladly volunteered to help out with the last minutes of the production, and the teachers and others at the school were happy to have her. Her reputation as a person who could keep youngsters in line through mutual respect and affection was widely known to all those who dealt with children. Kevin tended to the companionship and other needs of the youngest member of the family.
Finally, after some coughing and blowing into microphones and moving around of folding chairs, everything was in readiness. Having finished her labors of love, Donna rejoined Katie and Kevin and, minutes later, the school principal came out to welcome all parents and friends to the Winter Holiday program. He spoke for only a few minutes, because he was aware that everybody in the audience was there to see the children, especially their own, and he announced that the Kindergarten class would go on first.
Kerry and another boy, both wearing white shirts and corduroy pants, and two girls in colorful dresses came onto the stage first and recited the short poem to welcome everybody. The other boy stumbled slightly, but Kerry and the two girls had obviously memorized the piece perfectly, and everybody applauded the efforts of all four children, Kevin and Donna perhaps louder than anyone else. In small groups, others of the youngest children followed them, ending in "Frosty the Snowman" being sung by the entire class and accompanied by their teacher on the piano.
That concluded the Kindergarten segment of the show and, for the next 90 minutes, the other boys and girls followed in order of age, culminating with the Sixth Graders. Nobody could possibly have mistaken the program for a TV network variety show, but everybody, including the O'Brien family, was happy about it and enjoyed watching or being a part of it. At the conclusion, Kerry joined his proud family, and they all headed for home, where they told Fred and Wilma Brown, next door neighbors and honorary father and mother and grandparents, of the afternoon's events.