“Well, me, either, but I do like the naps.” We laughed a little at that and snuggled down, getting ready for sleep.
After a few minutes, Sam said, “Julia?”
“Hmm?”
“When you were little, did you ever lie in bed imagining Santa Claus landing his sleigh on the roof?”
“Not only imagined it, I could hear tiny little hooves tapping on the housetop.”
“Well, how would you like it if Santa came early this year?”
“That would be nice, I guess, but why would he?”
He laughed and reached for me. “Come over here and I’ll show you.”
About the Author
Author Photograph: Saran Sneeden
Ann B. Ross is the bestselling author of nineteen novels featuring the popular southern heroine Miss Julia, as well as Etta Mae’s Worst Bad-Luck Day, a novel about one of Abbotsville’s other most outspoken residents: Etta Mae Wiggins. Ross holds a doctorate in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has taught literature at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. She lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
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