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♪ Dashing through the snow ♪
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♪ In a one-horse open sleigh ♪
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♪ O'er the fields we go ♪
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♪ Laughing all the way ♪
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♪ Ha, ha, ha!
Bells on dog's tails ring ♪
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♪ Making spirits bright ♪
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♪ What fun it is ♪
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♪ To ride and sing
a sleighing song tonight ♪
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♪ Oh! Jingle bells
Jingle bells ♪
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♪ Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel ♪
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♪ I made it out of clay ♪
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♪ And when it's dry and ready ♪
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♪ Then dreidel I will play ♪
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Yes! Spin, spin, spin--
and fall. Whoo!
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That was great
for our first full run-through!
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Okay. Come on down.
Amazing job!
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Come on, guys.
You guys are gonna go
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back to the classroom
with Mrs. Lozano here
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for some reading, okay?
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High-five!
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You were fabulous, Tasha!
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Good. So good!
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I'll see you guys later!
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Bye! Wow.
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The dreidels were taking that
very seriously.
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That was, like, method acting right there.
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I was just hoping they weren't
gonna "spin up" their lunch.
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Uh, now, do you want to tell
Tasha the correct lyrics,
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or should I?
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No, I will. I will.
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I just didn't want to embarrass her
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in front of everyone.
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But it was so cute!
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It's great that you volunteered
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to bring back the holiday performance.
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It's good to see you
jumping back in again.
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Well, like Nana says,
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"A good distraction is never a bad idea."
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Right?
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Especially at Christmas.
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And how's she doing?
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Well, her wrist isn't broken,
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which is good, but...
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you know, she-she gets
dressed every morning
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and puts on lipstick and a smile, but...
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...no, she's not herself.
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It must be hard, you know,
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being all alone all day in that big house,
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with you and Will working,
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and with a sprained wrist, to boot.
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Yeah.
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You know,
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we hired a caregiver for my great-grandma,
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and it was a--
it was a game-changer.
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I don't think we could afford it.
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Honestly.
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Will and I are still
under a mountain of debt
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from all the IVF treatments.
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Well, it wouldn't have to be long-term.
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You've got enough on your plate,
looking out for her,
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and, hopefully,
taking good care of you, too.
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I'm fine, Mo.
I'm fine.
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But you're right.
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You shouldn't put
a price tag on happiness.
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So, send me the info
for that caregiver place.
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I'll look into it.
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- Okay.
- All right. See you later.
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See you soon.
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♪ Ready for the holidays! ♪
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♪ Joy and cheer ♪
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♪ It's that time of year ♪
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♪ Light up the season ♪
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♪ Let's find the feeling ♪
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♪ Ready for the holidays ♪
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♪ Whoo-hoo
Hoo-hoo-ooh-ooh ♪
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♪ Whoo-hoo
Hoo-hoo-ooh-ooh... ♪
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♪ Light up the season ♪
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♪ Let's find the feeling ♪
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♪ Ready for the holidays ♪
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♪ Ready for the holidays ♪
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Nana?
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Will?
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You should've seen
how cute these kids were today!
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Aw, this little girl, Tasha,
she melts your heart!
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Nana?
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Oh, Laurel!
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Hello, darling.
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I didn't hear you come in.
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You shouldn't sneak up
on an old lady like that.
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Who are you calling old, huh?
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How was your day?
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You didn't stay
in this chair all day, did ya?
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Of course not.
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I did lots of things.
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You know, the doctor says
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you can still do your embroidery,
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even with the brace on.
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Ah, and I will.
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Okay.
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What'd you have to eat?
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I wasn't hungry.
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Mm.
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Well, I have all the ingredients
for a nice marsala.
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I think I'm gonna make that for dinner.
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Don't fuss over me.
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I know you've had a long day
with a gaggle of six-year-olds.
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You think
I'm making this for you?
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Well, then, I must help you.
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As much as I can, anyway.
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Oh, and it's night and day
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between the fifth-grade rehearsal
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and my first-graders.
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I mean, these kids do not sit still.
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Talk about wiggle worms!
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You were quite the same as a child.
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I gave you a run for your money, didn't I?
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You think this is my karma?
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Not even close.
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Your rebellious phase
still haunts me at night.
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Oh, yeah.
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It helps, being around these kids, though.
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It really brightens the mood.
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I hope you'll come
to the performance next week.
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Hello.
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- Hi!
- Hi.
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Making Marsala.
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Mm! My favorite.
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Hey. How's the wrist?
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Uh, still attached.
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Here's a little company Christmas gift--
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a candy basket,
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and a small, but very welcome bonus.
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Well, every little bit helps.
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That basket's festive.
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Maybe we should decorate.
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Bring some Christmas cheer into the house.
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Perhaps.
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Well, how was your day, Will?
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And about those candies...
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any caramels in the bunch?
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Oh, you'll have to wait
until after dinner to find out.
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I just worry about her.
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You know? She's not herself
since Pop's been gone,
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and what if she falls again?
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I don't really know what can we do.
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I mean, assisted living isn't an option.
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Oh, no. Of course not.
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I mean, that woman took me in twice,
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and the second time,
I had a husband and--
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ahem.
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Jonathan.
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I wasn't even suggesting that.
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I was just thinking out loud.
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You know,
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Monique mentioned this caregiver agency.
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They hired somebody to take care
of her great-grandmother.
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But, I mean, I don't know
how we could afford it.
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Maybe I should just tell the school
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that I'm not gonna do winter camp,
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and just stay with her over the break.
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You can't cancel on them a week before.
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You made a commitment to them.
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Yeah.
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Well, there's always the money
that your grandfather left.
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We promised him we'd take care of her.
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That's what it's there for.
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It would be nice to see her
get out with her friends again.
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Yeah, they had
such an active life together.
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I know, no one could keep up.
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They exhausted me!
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Well, it could just be temporary,
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while her wrist heals,
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and just to get her over this hump.
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Exactly. Just until she's herself again,
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then you won't worry so much.
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We won't worry so much.
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I love you.
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I love you, too.
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Good afternoon.
Caring Heart Angels.
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You call, we care.
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I just made that up.
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Oh! Clever. Um...
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Hi. I'm Laurel,
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and I'm looking to hire
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a caregiver for my grandmother.
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We lost my grandfather in August,
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and then, a few weeks ago, she fell
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and injured her wrist, so, um,
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we were just looking for someone
that could help out
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while my husband and I were at work--
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cook, do some light housekeeping,
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take her to see her friends...
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That's exactly what we do here.
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Okay, great.
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Let me look in the system
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and see what we've got for you.
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Sorry, I'm a holiday temp.
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Oh, no, that's okay.
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Take your time.
Type away.
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Okay, I found it.
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- There it is.
- Great!
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So, no. It looks like
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we don't currently have anyone available,
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but maybe in January?
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Um--
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We have some short-term
assignments ending.
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Okay, well, do you have a waitlist,
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in case someone does
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- become available?
- That we do!
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Well, you come highly recommended
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from someone that I trust,
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which is everything to me
when it comes to my nana.
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Aren't you just a peach?
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Very well, then.
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Fill out the online application
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and we'll call you as soon
as anyone becomes available,
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At this number?
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Yes, yes.
That would be great. Thanks.
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Bye-bye!
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Bye.
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"Peach," huh?
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Okay.
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Hey.
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- Hi.
- How was your day?
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Oh, I got roped into making snickerdoodles
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for the faculty holiday lunch tomorrow,
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but other than that, good.
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How was yours?
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It was really nice, actually.
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Jeff from marketing
brought in his new baby.
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Are you okay?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it was really nice, actually.
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She was so cute.
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You know, Laurel, it--
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Will, we're not gonna have
this conversation again.
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All right?
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It's been almost a year, Laurel.
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I know.
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I'm not ready.
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And right now, our focus
needs to be on Nana, anyway,
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okay?
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All right, so put this in the microwave
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for maybe 45 seconds,
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and you should be good.
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Cookies! I was supposed
to bring snickerdoodles
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to the faculty lunch,
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and I totally forgot.
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I don't know where my head's at.
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Ugh, these kids and their muscle cars.
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It's just cookies.
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Not the end of the world.
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No, you underestimate
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how much everybody
loves my snickerdoodles.
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It's your recipe, Nana.
You created this monster.
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Hmm. Maybe a package?
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Laurel and Will McCullough?
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I'm Gloria Merkel.
Caring Heart Angels sent me.
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- I made cookies.
- Oh!
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Thank you.
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Sorry, I just talked
to Caring Hearts yesterday,
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and they told me
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that they didn't have
any availability until January.
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They didn't realize until late last night,
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that my current assignment was complete.
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They said they were gonna call me.
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I don't know anything
about the administration hooey,
270
00:10:47,417 --> 00:10:49,333
I just go where I'm told.
271
00:10:49,417 --> 00:10:51,583
This is where Helen Atwater lives, yes?
272
00:10:51,667 --> 00:10:53,291
It is.
273
00:10:53,375 --> 00:10:56,125
Oh, good! So I didn't just walk
into the wrong home.
274
00:10:56,208 --> 00:10:57,750
Now, where is my charge?
275
00:10:57,834 --> 00:10:58,917
I can't wait to meet her.
276
00:11:00,500 --> 00:11:02,750
Um... well, uh, sorry.
277
00:11:02,834 --> 00:11:03,917
Nana?
278
00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,083
This is--
Mrs. Merkel, was it?
279
00:11:06,166 --> 00:11:08,583
"Mrs. Miracle"?
280
00:11:08,667 --> 00:11:11,792
Merkel. M-E-R-K-E-L.
281
00:11:11,875 --> 00:11:13,750
Although my last charge
did call me "Mrs. Miracle".
282
00:11:13,834 --> 00:11:15,291
Now, he was only six,
283
00:11:15,375 --> 00:11:17,834
but I like to think
that I earned that nickname.
284
00:11:17,917 --> 00:11:19,041
But you can call me Gloria.
285
00:11:20,417 --> 00:11:23,166
Oh. Well, Gloria comes from an agency.
286
00:11:23,250 --> 00:11:25,750
Um, I was thinking
that she could stay with you
287
00:11:25,834 --> 00:11:27,166
while Will and I are at work,
288
00:11:27,250 --> 00:11:28,166
and just help keep the house and--
289
00:11:28,250 --> 00:11:30,542
I don't need a babysitter.
290
00:11:30,625 --> 00:11:31,917
Oh, I'm not here to watch you, Helen.
291
00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,709
My only goal
292
00:11:33,792 --> 00:11:35,375
is to make your life easier,
293
00:11:35,458 --> 00:11:37,542
so you can relax and enjoy the holiday.
294
00:11:37,625 --> 00:11:39,000
Now, how about a cup of tea?
295
00:11:39,083 --> 00:11:40,709
Oh, yeah, that's just...
296
00:11:40,792 --> 00:11:42,583
How about some references?
297
00:11:42,667 --> 00:11:45,083
How do we know you're not some con artist,
298
00:11:45,166 --> 00:11:47,417
trying to take advantage
of an elderly woman
299
00:11:47,500 --> 00:11:49,208
and her very trusting granddaughter?
300
00:11:53,959 --> 00:11:55,333
Referrals.
301
00:11:55,417 --> 00:11:58,000
Recommendations.
302
00:11:59,583 --> 00:12:00,959
And reviews.
303
00:12:02,125 --> 00:12:04,333
Read them at your leisure.
304
00:12:06,041 --> 00:12:08,000
Wow.
305
00:12:08,083 --> 00:12:10,166
My mother always said,
"there's no problem too big
306
00:12:10,250 --> 00:12:12,875
that can't be solved
over a hot cup of tea."
307
00:12:12,959 --> 00:12:14,041
You say that, Nana.
308
00:12:14,125 --> 00:12:15,458
I used to.
309
00:12:15,542 --> 00:12:17,375
Well, let's get you back there, then.
310
00:12:17,458 --> 00:12:20,000
Um... Laurel, can I speak with you
311
00:12:20,083 --> 00:12:21,041
in the next room?
312
00:12:21,125 --> 00:12:22,208
Yeah.
313
00:12:29,750 --> 00:12:31,375
I know what you're gonna say,
314
00:12:31,458 --> 00:12:33,709
but this agency comes highly recommended.
315
00:12:33,792 --> 00:12:34,792
There's not a bad review.
316
00:12:34,875 --> 00:12:36,208
Anywhere! You know me--
317
00:12:36,291 --> 00:12:38,542
I check reviews before
I'd let someone hem my pants.
318
00:12:38,625 --> 00:12:39,709
Yeah. I know.
319
00:12:39,792 --> 00:12:41,250
It's just not exactly what I expected
320
00:12:41,333 --> 00:12:42,583
when you said "caregiver".
321
00:12:42,667 --> 00:12:43,792
Same.
322
00:12:43,875 --> 00:12:45,291
But Monique swears by them.
323
00:12:45,375 --> 00:12:47,000
So, maybe we should just
try it out for a day,
324
00:12:47,083 --> 00:12:48,458
see how it goes?
325
00:12:48,542 --> 00:12:50,750
Yeah. Yeah,
I guess it can't hurt.
326
00:12:50,834 --> 00:12:52,208
I mean, it's not like
327
00:12:52,291 --> 00:12:53,375
they would send someone
with a criminal record, right?
328
00:12:53,458 --> 00:12:54,792
No, of course not!
329
00:12:54,875 --> 00:12:56,875
I think... I hope.
330
00:12:58,542 --> 00:12:59,792
Well, look, if she's not the right fit,
331
00:12:59,875 --> 00:13:01,166
we can ask for someone else.
332
00:13:01,250 --> 00:13:03,000
They had one sudden opening,
they could have another.
333
00:13:03,083 --> 00:13:04,083
Yeah, you're right.
334
00:13:04,166 --> 00:13:06,375
All right.
Let's give it a shot.
335
00:13:06,458 --> 00:13:07,959
Let's see how her cookies are,
though, first.
336
00:13:11,917 --> 00:13:13,166
Honey?
337
00:13:13,250 --> 00:13:15,083
Don't call me that!
338
00:13:15,166 --> 00:13:16,166
Oh, I wouldn't dream of it.
339
00:13:16,250 --> 00:13:18,333
I meant, for your tea?
340
00:13:18,417 --> 00:13:20,542
Oh. Uh... no. Thank you.
341
00:13:25,542 --> 00:13:28,375
Nana, will you try it out for a bit?
342
00:13:28,458 --> 00:13:29,583
That way, Will and I
343
00:13:29,667 --> 00:13:31,125
won't worry so much while we're at work.
344
00:13:31,208 --> 00:13:32,375
We just want you to be okay.
345
00:13:32,458 --> 00:13:34,917
You know I never wanted
to be a burden on you.
346
00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,000
You couldn't possibly be.
347
00:13:37,083 --> 00:13:37,959
Not ever.
348
00:13:39,792 --> 00:13:41,500
You cared for me,
practically my whole life.
349
00:13:41,583 --> 00:13:43,291
Now I just get to return the favor.
350
00:13:44,834 --> 00:13:46,125
It's my privilege.
351
00:13:49,709 --> 00:13:51,750
All right.
We'll give it a shot.
352
00:13:51,834 --> 00:13:53,333
Okay.
353
00:13:54,750 --> 00:13:56,834
But make sure the safe is locked.
354
00:13:57,959 --> 00:13:59,667
- Okay.
- Well, very well, then.
355
00:13:59,750 --> 00:14:01,834
Shall we... have a tour?
356
00:14:03,667 --> 00:14:05,750
Yeah.
357
00:14:10,125 --> 00:14:13,583
Okay. Nana's room is right in here
358
00:14:13,667 --> 00:14:15,500
and Will and I are just
in that room over there.
359
00:14:15,583 --> 00:14:16,750
Oh! You live here as well?
360
00:14:16,834 --> 00:14:18,500
Yeah, we moved in--
361
00:14:18,583 --> 00:14:20,333
To take care of her?
How lovely!
362
00:14:20,417 --> 00:14:22,500
Actually, it was the opposite.
363
00:14:22,583 --> 00:14:25,792
We took a bit of a financial hit
a few years back,
364
00:14:25,875 --> 00:14:27,125
so my Nana and Pop took us in.
365
00:14:27,208 --> 00:14:29,792
And now that
we're getting back on our feet,
366
00:14:29,875 --> 00:14:31,250
we didn't want to leave her all alone.
367
00:14:31,333 --> 00:14:34,208
That is even more lovely of you.
368
00:14:34,291 --> 00:14:35,500
So, um...
369
00:14:35,583 --> 00:14:37,458
what are her likes and dislikes?
370
00:14:37,542 --> 00:14:38,792
Besides me, of course.
371
00:14:38,875 --> 00:14:40,709
Oh, no.
She just needs some time.
372
00:14:40,792 --> 00:14:44,166
Oh, well, it's quite invasive,
having a stranger in your home.
373
00:14:44,250 --> 00:14:47,166
Perhaps her hobbies
can give us some common ground.
374
00:14:47,250 --> 00:14:51,458
Well, she used to love
quilting and dancing
375
00:14:51,542 --> 00:14:52,709
and Christmas.
376
00:14:52,792 --> 00:14:54,583
Yeah, she loves Christmas,
377
00:14:54,667 --> 00:14:58,041
but since this is the first
holiday without my grandfather,
378
00:14:58,125 --> 00:15:00,208
she doesn't seem
to want to celebrate at all.
379
00:15:00,291 --> 00:15:01,875
Sometimes people don't know what they want
380
00:15:01,959 --> 00:15:04,291
until you place it right in front of them.
381
00:15:05,709 --> 00:15:07,250
And what's in there?
382
00:15:08,583 --> 00:15:10,125
We keep that door closed.
383
00:15:10,208 --> 00:15:11,542
Very well, then.
384
00:15:11,625 --> 00:15:14,166
I, for one, am always thankful
for the closed doors,
385
00:15:14,250 --> 00:15:16,667
as they tend to point us
towards the open ones.
386
00:15:16,750 --> 00:15:18,709
Hmm.
387
00:15:25,083 --> 00:15:27,792
If I'm in class, I won't
be able to answer my phone,
388
00:15:27,875 --> 00:15:29,333
so, in the event of an emergency,
389
00:15:29,417 --> 00:15:31,000
just get in touch with the office,
390
00:15:31,083 --> 00:15:32,417
and they'll get a message to me.
Okay.
391
00:15:32,500 --> 00:15:34,375
Yes, and my office and cell
number are on the fridge.
392
00:15:34,458 --> 00:15:35,959
Oh.
393
00:15:36,041 --> 00:15:36,959
Care for a cookie for the road?
394
00:15:37,041 --> 00:15:39,583
Snickerdoodles.
Old family recipe.
395
00:15:40,959 --> 00:15:42,000
Mm!
396
00:15:42,083 --> 00:15:43,709
Nana.
397
00:15:43,792 --> 00:15:44,917
Wow.
398
00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,583
They taste kind of like yours, Nana.
399
00:15:48,083 --> 00:15:50,083
Right?
400
00:15:50,166 --> 00:15:51,542
Ahem.
401
00:15:51,625 --> 00:15:53,208
They're fine.
402
00:15:55,250 --> 00:15:56,625
Hey, Laur. Why don't you
403
00:15:56,709 --> 00:15:59,458
take those to school
for your faculty lunch?
404
00:16:00,667 --> 00:16:01,834
You know what?
I think I might,
405
00:16:01,917 --> 00:16:03,834
if you don't mind?
406
00:16:03,917 --> 00:16:04,959
You're kind of saving me here, Mrs.--
407
00:16:06,125 --> 00:16:07,625
...Gloria.
408
00:16:07,709 --> 00:16:09,875
Well, isn't that fortuitous?
409
00:16:11,375 --> 00:16:13,166
So, you two, go on, off to work.
410
00:16:13,250 --> 00:16:14,458
We're going to be fine.
411
00:16:14,542 --> 00:16:16,417
Okay.
412
00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:18,083
I think we're going to be fast friends.
413
00:16:18,166 --> 00:16:19,291
Do you now?
414
00:16:19,375 --> 00:16:21,166
Okay.
415
00:16:21,250 --> 00:16:23,834
Well, I'll, uh,
leave you guys to it, then.
416
00:16:23,917 --> 00:16:25,083
Have fun.
417
00:16:25,166 --> 00:16:27,208
Don't get into any trouble.
418
00:16:28,834 --> 00:16:30,166
Let's just keep an open mind.
419
00:16:30,250 --> 00:16:32,625
I mean, her name
is "Mrs. Miracle," after all.
420
00:16:32,709 --> 00:16:33,834
Maybe that's what we all need right now.
421
00:16:33,917 --> 00:16:36,041
Yeah, maybe.
422
00:16:38,542 --> 00:16:41,583
We need to bring some Christmas
into this house, Helen.
423
00:16:41,667 --> 00:16:45,458
Nothing brightens a home more
than lights and tinsel
424
00:16:45,542 --> 00:16:47,250
and an angel atop the tree.
425
00:16:47,333 --> 00:16:49,208
We haven't gotten around to it yet.
426
00:16:49,291 --> 00:16:51,041
Oh! Well, then
I've arrived just in time.
427
00:16:58,875 --> 00:17:00,166
What's your angle?
428
00:17:00,250 --> 00:17:01,125
I beg your pardon?
429
00:17:01,208 --> 00:17:03,166
Why are you here?
430
00:17:03,250 --> 00:17:04,917
I was sent here
431
00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,417
at the request of people
who love you very much.
432
00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:09,625
But just to keep you company.
433
00:17:09,709 --> 00:17:12,667
Oh, I can keep myself company just fine.
434
00:17:12,750 --> 00:17:14,417
Of course you can.
435
00:17:14,500 --> 00:17:17,166
So let's just sit in the silence, then,
436
00:17:17,250 --> 00:17:19,667
and we'll take things slow.
437
00:17:30,834 --> 00:17:31,959
Do they pay you well at least?
438
00:17:32,041 --> 00:17:33,875
I would hope that
439
00:17:33,959 --> 00:17:36,792
keeping an old lady alive
would be lucrative for you.
440
00:17:36,875 --> 00:17:38,792
I have never been motivated by money.
441
00:17:38,875 --> 00:17:41,625
Service to others has
always been my driving force.
442
00:17:41,709 --> 00:17:42,792
That,
443
00:17:42,875 --> 00:17:45,625
and chocolate-covered strawberries. Oh!
444
00:17:45,709 --> 00:17:47,709
Very well, then.
445
00:17:53,917 --> 00:17:56,709
All right, Mom, so,
we'll call you on Christmas Eve.
446
00:17:56,792 --> 00:17:58,959
Yeah, we'll do a video chat
with the whole crew.
447
00:17:59,041 --> 00:18:01,792
Okay. Love you, too.
Bye-bye.
448
00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:08,959
Lunch today?
449
00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:10,792
Hey.
450
00:18:10,875 --> 00:18:11,917
Hey, are you okay, buddy?
451
00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,375
Oh! Yeah, we're just
452
00:18:14,458 --> 00:18:16,792
trying to make sure
Laurel's grandmother is okay.
453
00:18:16,875 --> 00:18:18,625
You are a keeper, Will.
454
00:18:18,709 --> 00:18:20,333
You take such good care
of your wife's family.
455
00:18:20,417 --> 00:18:22,834
Well, her family's always
been there for me,
456
00:18:22,917 --> 00:18:24,709
so I'm happy to return the favor.
457
00:18:24,792 --> 00:18:27,000
Especially since I don't get
to see mine very often.
458
00:18:27,083 --> 00:18:29,083
Oh, you're not heading there
for Christmas this year?
459
00:18:29,166 --> 00:18:30,375
We can't really leave Nana.
460
00:18:30,458 --> 00:18:32,792
We were hoping my parents
would come out here,
461
00:18:32,875 --> 00:18:34,500
but holiday airfares...
462
00:18:34,583 --> 00:18:37,125
we'll get back east
when Laurel's on spring break.
463
00:18:37,208 --> 00:18:39,667
Sounds like a good
and marginally inexpensive plan.
464
00:18:39,750 --> 00:18:41,667
Yeah.
465
00:18:41,750 --> 00:18:43,291
Hey, lunch today, not at our desks?
466
00:18:43,375 --> 00:18:44,792
Let's get some fresh air and maybe do
467
00:18:44,875 --> 00:18:45,834
some holiday shopping?
468
00:18:45,917 --> 00:18:47,375
Yes! Great idea.
See you then.
469
00:18:47,458 --> 00:18:48,208
All right.
470
00:19:03,667 --> 00:19:06,000
Hey, Dad. I'm at school.
471
00:19:06,083 --> 00:19:07,417
What's up?
472
00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:09,333
Ah! The time-change.
That's right. I'm in Cleveland.
473
00:19:09,417 --> 00:19:12,375
Um, so I got to come out there
next week to meet a client,
474
00:19:12,458 --> 00:19:14,250
and I, um, was hoping
475
00:19:14,333 --> 00:19:15,792
we could have dinner, maybe, you and I?
476
00:19:15,875 --> 00:19:17,125
Next week's Christmas.
477
00:19:17,208 --> 00:19:18,375
Aren't you gonna be
with Annie and the kids?
478
00:19:18,458 --> 00:19:20,250
I'll be back in time.
479
00:19:20,333 --> 00:19:22,375
Elina and Tim are coming home from school.
480
00:19:22,458 --> 00:19:23,458
He's bringing his new girlfriend.
481
00:19:23,542 --> 00:19:24,792
They met in the dorms
482
00:19:24,875 --> 00:19:26,625
and, uh, you know,
I think it's getting serious.
483
00:19:26,709 --> 00:19:29,375
That sounds like
a wonderful family celebration.
484
00:19:30,709 --> 00:19:33,125
I know it's not a lot of notice,
485
00:19:33,208 --> 00:19:35,041
but I'd really like to see you, Laurel,
486
00:19:35,125 --> 00:19:36,125
if you can find the time.
487
00:19:36,208 --> 00:19:38,417
Yeah. Okay. Well, let me
488
00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:40,875
check my schedule
and I'll, uh, get back to you.
489
00:19:40,959 --> 00:19:43,542
Okay. Uh, great. Yeah.
Just-- Just let me know.
490
00:19:43,625 --> 00:19:45,417
- Okay. Will do.
- Bye.
491
00:20:13,667 --> 00:20:15,625
This might be your best batch yet.
492
00:20:15,709 --> 00:20:17,750
They're not that good.
493
00:20:17,834 --> 00:20:19,625
Are they?
494
00:20:19,709 --> 00:20:23,291
If, uh, everybody could raise your juice...
495
00:20:23,375 --> 00:20:24,834
I'd like to make a few toasts.
496
00:20:24,917 --> 00:20:26,959
First of all, to Laurel--
497
00:20:27,041 --> 00:20:28,458
Oh?
498
00:20:28,542 --> 00:20:30,709
Thank you for stepping up
to run the holiday performance.
499
00:20:30,792 --> 00:20:32,917
I've been hearing from parents
who are thrilled that--
500
00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,625
despite the budget cuts--
501
00:20:34,709 --> 00:20:36,750
we finally have a volunteer who's willing
502
00:20:36,834 --> 00:20:39,291
to make this wonderful tradition
possible again.
503
00:20:39,375 --> 00:20:40,917
Cheers, Laurel!
Thank you!
504
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,250
Okay, here's to
managing expectations. Okay?
505
00:20:44,333 --> 00:20:45,750
I'm not a music teacher,
506
00:20:45,834 --> 00:20:48,500
so don't expect the same quality
as an old Ms. Malloy show.
507
00:20:48,583 --> 00:20:51,750
And I am here to say
that it's gonna be even better
508
00:20:51,834 --> 00:20:54,125
than one of the old
Ms. Malloy shows.
509
00:20:54,208 --> 00:20:55,375
Wow.
510
00:20:55,458 --> 00:20:57,500
But, um, please don't
tell her I said that.
511
00:20:57,583 --> 00:20:59,834
'Cause I know a lot of us
still talk to her.
512
00:20:59,917 --> 00:21:02,542
Which, uh, brings me to you--
513
00:21:02,625 --> 00:21:04,000
Monique Lozano,
514
00:21:04,083 --> 00:21:06,542
everyone's favorite teacher's aide,
515
00:21:06,625 --> 00:21:09,875
who, sadly, will be leaving us
at the end of the school year,
516
00:21:09,959 --> 00:21:12,291
since she's having twins in June!
517
00:21:12,375 --> 00:21:14,542
Cheers!
518
00:21:14,625 --> 00:21:15,917
Congratulations!
519
00:21:16,959 --> 00:21:18,333
Wow.
520
00:21:18,417 --> 00:21:19,625
Oh, thank you!
521
00:21:22,250 --> 00:21:23,792
What?
522
00:21:23,875 --> 00:21:26,333
Uh, I didn't know
that she was gonna say that.
523
00:21:26,417 --> 00:21:28,375
I-I just told her this morning.
524
00:21:28,458 --> 00:21:29,709
Okay.
525
00:21:29,792 --> 00:21:32,417
And I was waiting for
the right time to tell you.
526
00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:34,500
No, you can tell me these things.
527
00:21:34,583 --> 00:21:36,750
I'm so happy for you.
528
00:21:37,834 --> 00:21:38,792
Um...
529
00:21:38,875 --> 00:21:41,041
you and Will...
530
00:21:41,125 --> 00:21:42,875
y-you can try fostering again.
531
00:21:42,959 --> 00:21:45,458
Um, there is a forever-baby--
532
00:21:45,542 --> 00:21:47,250
That ship has sailed for us.
533
00:21:47,333 --> 00:21:49,250
I am going to be
534
00:21:49,333 --> 00:21:51,333
the best auntie to these babies.
535
00:21:51,417 --> 00:21:53,709
I'm going to spoil them rotten.
536
00:21:53,792 --> 00:21:56,542
I'm so happy for you.
537
00:21:56,625 --> 00:21:57,875
Thank you.
538
00:22:03,166 --> 00:22:05,083
Laurel!
539
00:22:05,166 --> 00:22:06,542
I tried you on your cell.
540
00:22:06,625 --> 00:22:08,333
You have an urgent phone call from home.
541
00:22:12,458 --> 00:22:14,500
Oh. Thank you.
542
00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:16,667
Mrs. Gloria? Hello?
543
00:22:16,750 --> 00:22:18,250
No! It's me.
544
00:22:18,333 --> 00:22:19,792
Nana! What's wrong?
545
00:22:19,875 --> 00:22:23,000
I caught her
riffling through your drawers.
546
00:22:23,083 --> 00:22:25,208
Looking for a spatula!
547
00:22:27,041 --> 00:22:28,375
She was snooping!
548
00:22:28,458 --> 00:22:30,417
Snooping for a spatula!
549
00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:32,083
I thought it best
not to flip the grilled cheese
550
00:22:32,166 --> 00:22:33,500
with my bare hands.
551
00:22:33,583 --> 00:22:36,500
Um... okay, Nana,
this isn't exactly an emergency.
552
00:22:36,583 --> 00:22:38,000
Right?
553
00:22:38,083 --> 00:22:39,959
She is a complete stranger
554
00:22:40,041 --> 00:22:43,041
and she's cooking and cleaning
like she owns the place!
555
00:22:43,125 --> 00:22:45,875
Because that's what
we're paying her to do!
556
00:22:45,959 --> 00:22:48,709
We don't know anything about her!
557
00:22:48,792 --> 00:22:52,709
Except that she doesn't make
such a great grilled cheese.
558
00:22:52,792 --> 00:22:55,333
Okay, listen, if it will
make you feel any better,
559
00:22:55,417 --> 00:22:57,166
I can run my own background check
560
00:22:57,250 --> 00:23:00,291
to find out if she's wanted
by the FBI or something.
561
00:23:00,375 --> 00:23:02,291
I'm clean!
562
00:23:02,375 --> 00:23:03,625
Fine.
563
00:23:06,166 --> 00:23:07,875
But we're counting the silver
after she leaves.
564
00:23:07,959 --> 00:23:10,750
You have 112 pieces.
I already counted it.
565
00:23:12,417 --> 00:23:14,291
Okay. Sounds good. Bye.
566
00:23:17,667 --> 00:23:19,959
We're...
We're having a bit of a day.
567
00:23:22,083 --> 00:23:23,000
Bye.
568
00:23:24,417 --> 00:23:25,542
Sounds like it.
569
00:23:26,750 --> 00:23:27,834
Now, don't you tell anyone
570
00:23:27,917 --> 00:23:29,625
what I got for the white elephant party.
571
00:23:29,709 --> 00:23:31,333
It's supposed to be funny,
and you buy a neck pillow.
572
00:23:31,417 --> 00:23:33,792
I mean, how boring can you be?
573
00:23:33,875 --> 00:23:34,792
Tell me what wrapping paper's yours,
574
00:23:34,875 --> 00:23:36,291
so I don't pick it.
575
00:23:36,375 --> 00:23:37,792
Hey, you roll the dice,
you take your chances,
576
00:23:37,875 --> 00:23:39,333
my friend, that's how it works.
577
00:23:39,417 --> 00:23:40,959
Will?
578
00:23:42,500 --> 00:23:43,792
Hi. It's Nancy, from D.C.Y.F.
579
00:23:43,875 --> 00:23:46,709
I was your social worker with Jonathan.
580
00:23:46,792 --> 00:23:48,959
Yes! Of course.
Hi, Nancy. How are you?
581
00:23:49,041 --> 00:23:50,625
I'll see you back up there?
582
00:23:50,709 --> 00:23:51,709
Yeah. Of course. Yeah.
583
00:23:51,792 --> 00:23:53,291
I'm-I'm good. I'm good.
584
00:23:53,375 --> 00:23:54,834
How are you and Laurel?
585
00:23:54,917 --> 00:23:57,834
It's been a tough year,
but, uh, we're doing all right.
586
00:23:57,917 --> 00:23:59,041
Thank you, yeah.
587
00:23:59,125 --> 00:24:00,875
I'm actually glad to run into you.
588
00:24:00,959 --> 00:24:02,417
I've been meaning to reach out.
589
00:24:02,500 --> 00:24:04,375
So, we are currently experiencing
590
00:24:04,458 --> 00:24:07,166
a lack of qualified
licensed foster families,
591
00:24:07,250 --> 00:24:08,834
and...
592
00:24:08,917 --> 00:24:12,750
I wanted to know if you two
might be ready to try again.
593
00:24:12,834 --> 00:24:14,750
Oh, I don't know, Nancy.
594
00:24:14,834 --> 00:24:16,917
You were so good with Jonathan,
595
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,333
and, look,
596
00:24:18,417 --> 00:24:22,542
I want you to know
it doesn't always end that way.
597
00:24:22,625 --> 00:24:25,083
Is he okay? Jonathan?
598
00:24:25,166 --> 00:24:27,458
I know you probably
can't tell me anything,
599
00:24:27,542 --> 00:24:29,083
but we think about him all the time.
600
00:24:29,166 --> 00:24:31,375
He and his mother
are both doing quite well.
601
00:24:32,750 --> 00:24:35,667
Look, why don't you
talk about it with Laurel,
602
00:24:35,750 --> 00:24:37,709
and you can give me a call later?
603
00:24:38,875 --> 00:24:40,917
I do think that there is a child out there
604
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,000
that would be so lucky
to be placed in your home.
605
00:24:45,750 --> 00:24:47,458
You know what, Nancy?
606
00:24:47,542 --> 00:24:49,083
Put us back on the list.
607
00:24:50,291 --> 00:24:51,291
Same as before.
608
00:24:51,375 --> 00:24:54,291
Newborn.
Any ethnicity. Any gender.
609
00:24:54,375 --> 00:24:55,667
I'll get Laurel onboard.
610
00:24:55,750 --> 00:24:57,125
Really?
611
00:24:57,208 --> 00:24:58,667
Yes. Yes.
612
00:24:58,750 --> 00:25:00,041
That's so great to hear, Will.
613
00:25:01,583 --> 00:25:03,083
Uh, well, um, we'll be in touch.
614
00:25:03,166 --> 00:25:04,125
Okay.
615
00:25:04,208 --> 00:25:05,500
- Bye!
- Good to see you.
616
00:25:05,583 --> 00:25:07,500
You too!
617
00:25:15,917 --> 00:25:18,875
"Local woman saves nine gorillas,
618
00:25:18,959 --> 00:25:21,125
during fire at Central Park Zoo."
619
00:25:21,208 --> 00:25:22,834
I've done that before.
Big deal.
620
00:25:22,917 --> 00:25:24,625
No, Will, I'm serious.
Look at this.
621
00:25:25,875 --> 00:25:29,291
"Hostage Situation
Defused by Passerby."
622
00:25:29,375 --> 00:25:32,166
What? Come on.
Those can't all be her.
623
00:25:32,250 --> 00:25:34,667
I mean, the hair is different,
but that's definitely her.
624
00:25:34,750 --> 00:25:36,834
Yes, this woman seems to have a knack
625
00:25:36,917 --> 00:25:39,125
for being at the right place
at the right time, huh?
626
00:25:39,208 --> 00:25:40,792
I guess we should consider ourselves lucky
627
00:25:40,875 --> 00:25:41,917
she found her way to us.
628
00:25:43,166 --> 00:25:44,500
Wait a second.
629
00:25:44,583 --> 00:25:46,709
This hostage thing was in 2001.
630
00:25:46,792 --> 00:25:48,250
She looks exactly the same.
631
00:25:48,333 --> 00:25:50,000
She does.
632
00:25:50,083 --> 00:25:53,291
Whoever her plastic surgeon is,
is worth every penny.
633
00:25:54,750 --> 00:25:56,417
Oh, and here are the results
of the background check.
634
00:25:56,500 --> 00:26:00,083
See?
No felonies, lawsuits, liens.
635
00:26:00,166 --> 00:26:01,834
Not so much as an unpaid parking ticket.
636
00:26:01,917 --> 00:26:03,917
Well, hopefully, that'll give
Nana some peace of mind then.
637
00:26:06,500 --> 00:26:08,375
So, um...
638
00:26:08,458 --> 00:26:09,834
- Laurel--
- Hmm?
639
00:26:09,917 --> 00:26:11,667
Today, I saw...
640
00:26:12,792 --> 00:26:13,792
What?
641
00:26:19,709 --> 00:26:21,750
I saw a spark of the old Nana.
642
00:26:21,834 --> 00:26:25,250
You know? Even if it was
in the form of suspicion.
643
00:26:25,333 --> 00:26:27,333
I thought so, too.
644
00:26:27,417 --> 00:26:30,417
And maybe Gloria is an acquired taste.
645
00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:52,208
What is that ruckus?
646
00:26:54,792 --> 00:26:56,917
Oh, good!
You heard me.
647
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,208
I think they heard you in Guam!
648
00:26:59,291 --> 00:27:00,500
Here. Let me help you.
649
00:27:02,291 --> 00:27:04,792
- Who was that?
- My friend, Gabe.
650
00:27:04,875 --> 00:27:06,750
He helped me tie the tree to the car,
651
00:27:06,834 --> 00:27:09,291
then followed me home,
so it wouldn't go flying off.
652
00:27:09,375 --> 00:27:10,542
Sorry he couldn't stop to say hello.
653
00:27:10,625 --> 00:27:11,834
He had an urgent matter to attend to.
654
00:27:11,917 --> 00:27:13,458
You two in a car club or something?
655
00:27:13,542 --> 00:27:14,875
"Or something."
656
00:27:14,959 --> 00:27:16,500
Coming in.
657
00:27:17,792 --> 00:27:20,125
Lovely morning, isn't it, Helen?
658
00:27:20,208 --> 00:27:22,583
Oh, it's morning, so you're half-right.
659
00:27:22,667 --> 00:27:26,000
All right, well, we'll have
to clear... some space.
660
00:27:26,083 --> 00:27:28,291
Oh, no need.
It's already done.
661
00:27:28,375 --> 00:27:29,542
That's so strange.
662
00:27:29,625 --> 00:27:31,125
I-I didn't notice that you had done this
663
00:27:31,208 --> 00:27:32,875
when I got home yesterday.
664
00:27:32,959 --> 00:27:34,333
Well, I figured you'd both
be tired from work,
665
00:27:34,417 --> 00:27:36,083
so I went ahead and did it myself.
666
00:27:36,166 --> 00:27:38,208
Oh, when did you do this?
667
00:27:38,291 --> 00:27:39,542
Oh, I think it was
when you were in the den,
668
00:27:39,625 --> 00:27:40,625
watching your shows.
669
00:27:43,417 --> 00:27:46,583
A family should trim
a Christmas tree together,
670
00:27:46,667 --> 00:27:49,250
so we'll get it ready for this evening.
671
00:27:49,333 --> 00:27:51,667
Okay, I'll, uh, show her
where we keep everything.
672
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,375
We've got tons,
673
00:28:00,458 --> 00:28:01,750
because my grandfather used to decorate
674
00:28:01,834 --> 00:28:03,500
from top to bottom,
675
00:28:03,583 --> 00:28:05,625
which is probably why
676
00:28:05,709 --> 00:28:07,750
this year's been so hard for Nana.
677
00:28:07,834 --> 00:28:09,583
I find cherishing the memories
678
00:28:09,667 --> 00:28:12,291
provides so much more comfort
than ignoring them.
679
00:28:12,375 --> 00:28:13,875
Yeah.
680
00:28:13,959 --> 00:28:15,083
But I have plans for me and Helen,
681
00:28:15,166 --> 00:28:17,083
to get her back out into the world.
682
00:28:17,166 --> 00:28:18,667
I hope you have more luck than I did.
683
00:28:18,750 --> 00:28:20,375
She's just not herself right now.
684
00:28:20,458 --> 00:28:23,125
Well, we never are, after a loss.
685
00:28:23,208 --> 00:28:26,250
We find our way back
to ourselves in due time.
686
00:28:27,792 --> 00:28:30,208
Why do you look so doubtful, Laurel?
687
00:28:30,291 --> 00:28:33,000
Miracles happen every day.
688
00:28:33,083 --> 00:28:34,750
Well, if you find one, send it my way.
689
00:28:34,834 --> 00:28:36,709
It's been a while since I've seen any.
690
00:28:36,792 --> 00:28:38,041
Hence the question--
691
00:28:38,125 --> 00:28:39,959
do miracles happen because we believe,
692
00:28:40,041 --> 00:28:42,083
or do we believe because miracles happen?
693
00:28:42,166 --> 00:28:44,667
Perhaps neither.
In the absence of evidence...
694
00:28:44,750 --> 00:28:46,750
That's why we must have faith.
695
00:28:48,583 --> 00:28:50,583
Ah, you don't have that either?
696
00:28:50,667 --> 00:28:55,208
I used to,
which sounds so cynical, I know.
697
00:28:55,291 --> 00:29:00,208
I just...
you know, life happens.
698
00:29:01,375 --> 00:29:02,542
That's unfortunate.
699
00:29:02,625 --> 00:29:04,750
Well, life certainly happened
to those lights.
700
00:29:04,834 --> 00:29:06,250
I hope it was a good one.
701
00:29:07,625 --> 00:29:09,750
That's okay,
I'll send Will out to get some.
702
00:29:09,834 --> 00:29:10,917
There's a place right by his office.
703
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,792
Nonsense.
We'll get them,
704
00:29:12,875 --> 00:29:14,458
since Helen and I are venturing out.
705
00:29:14,542 --> 00:29:17,333
She's due for some fun and so am I.
706
00:29:17,417 --> 00:29:18,709
Okay.
707
00:29:20,458 --> 00:29:22,333
One thing I've learned,
Laurel--
708
00:29:22,417 --> 00:29:25,959
our hardest times often lead
to our greatest moments.
709
00:29:28,750 --> 00:29:31,083
I thought we could also
go by the senior center
710
00:29:31,166 --> 00:29:33,333
and pay a visit to the quilting club.
711
00:29:33,417 --> 00:29:35,834
I made a quilt once. Oh!
It was horrible.
712
00:29:35,917 --> 00:29:36,959
It was crooked
713
00:29:37,041 --> 00:29:38,917
and it wouldn't fit over a dog bed.
714
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,041
But I completed it,
715
00:29:40,125 --> 00:29:41,792
and my mother always said,
716
00:29:41,875 --> 00:29:44,875
"Never leave a project unfinished."
717
00:29:44,959 --> 00:29:47,000
Helen, are you all right?
718
00:29:47,083 --> 00:29:48,250
This is your car?
719
00:29:48,333 --> 00:29:51,542
It's quite safe.
I keep it in mint condition.
720
00:29:51,625 --> 00:29:55,041
I've always had an affinity
for things from this era.
721
00:29:55,125 --> 00:29:58,083
They just don't make things
like this anymore.
722
00:29:58,166 --> 00:29:59,583
- I can't--
- Of course you can!
723
00:29:59,667 --> 00:30:01,333
I have a perfect driving record.
724
00:30:01,417 --> 00:30:03,417
No! I mean,
725
00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:05,875
this is the exact car
726
00:30:05,959 --> 00:30:09,208
Robert drove when I met him in 1956.
727
00:30:09,291 --> 00:30:10,667
He had just gotten it!
728
00:30:10,750 --> 00:30:12,375
Saved up for two years,
729
00:30:12,458 --> 00:30:15,625
working in his father's pharmacy. Oh!
730
00:30:15,709 --> 00:30:18,000
I used to stick my head out the window
731
00:30:18,083 --> 00:30:20,000
and look in the mirror
732
00:30:20,083 --> 00:30:23,542
as the breeze blew in my face.
733
00:30:23,625 --> 00:30:25,500
Oh! Well, isn't that fortuitous?
734
00:30:25,583 --> 00:30:27,208
Hop in.
735
00:30:43,458 --> 00:30:45,208
And all of these crafts are made
736
00:30:45,291 --> 00:30:46,750
from groups in the senior center?
737
00:30:46,834 --> 00:30:47,917
- Uh-huh.
- Oh!
738
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,583
I just adore a handmade craft.
739
00:30:49,667 --> 00:30:51,750
- Don't you?
- Yep.
740
00:30:51,834 --> 00:30:52,834
I believe, when a person pours
741
00:30:52,917 --> 00:30:54,333
their heart and soul into their art,
742
00:30:54,417 --> 00:30:56,792
they're gifting you
with a piece of themselves.
743
00:30:56,875 --> 00:30:59,291
My daughter, Kelly,
used to make her own ornaments
744
00:30:59,375 --> 00:31:00,917
when Laurel was little.
745
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,750
They were terrible,
but we absolutely loved them.
746
00:31:03,834 --> 00:31:06,625
Somehow, they were lost
when she passed away.
747
00:31:06,709 --> 00:31:09,041
Ah. Well, these things have
a way of turning up.
748
00:31:09,125 --> 00:31:11,875
Nah, I don't think so.
Not after so long.
749
00:31:14,083 --> 00:31:15,875
So Laurel came to live with you
twice, is that right?
750
00:31:15,959 --> 00:31:18,125
The first time, she was just a teenager.
751
00:31:18,208 --> 00:31:20,834
Her father remarried, had a new family,
752
00:31:20,917 --> 00:31:23,750
and Laurel never felt like she belonged,
753
00:31:23,834 --> 00:31:25,375
so it was her choice.
754
00:31:25,458 --> 00:31:27,125
Our home has always been her home.
755
00:31:27,208 --> 00:31:30,083
Perhaps because her mother
also grew up there.
756
00:31:30,166 --> 00:31:32,667
You all take such beautiful
care of each other.
757
00:31:32,750 --> 00:31:34,583
Always.
758
00:31:36,125 --> 00:31:38,959
Helen, what is the story
759
00:31:39,041 --> 00:31:42,917
behind the closed bedroom door
on the second level?
760
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,291
Laurel doesn't seem to want
to so much as look inside.
761
00:31:47,417 --> 00:31:49,083
That was Jonathan's room.
762
00:31:49,166 --> 00:31:51,375
Jonathan?
763
00:31:51,458 --> 00:31:53,166
We brought him home at three days old,
764
00:31:53,250 --> 00:31:56,792
and he was ours for 18 glorious months.
765
00:31:56,875 --> 00:31:58,291
They were fostering
766
00:31:58,375 --> 00:32:00,250
and in the final stages of adoption
767
00:32:00,333 --> 00:32:02,375
when the mother changed her mind.
768
00:32:02,458 --> 00:32:05,834
She cleaned herself up...
769
00:32:05,917 --> 00:32:07,583
did the work,
770
00:32:07,667 --> 00:32:10,458
and he went back with her.
771
00:32:10,542 --> 00:32:14,458
That was just before Christmas last year.
772
00:32:14,542 --> 00:32:15,959
Oh, my.
773
00:32:17,166 --> 00:32:18,417
Well,
774
00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:21,542
I don't think
Laurel's gotten over it yet.
775
00:32:21,625 --> 00:32:24,709
And then, losing Pop...
776
00:32:27,917 --> 00:32:30,583
I only wish there was something I could do
777
00:32:30,667 --> 00:32:31,834
to make it better for her.
778
00:32:31,917 --> 00:32:34,375
You know, Helen,
I think we can help her--
779
00:32:34,458 --> 00:32:35,792
together.
780
00:32:35,875 --> 00:32:36,834
Sometimes,
781
00:32:36,917 --> 00:32:38,834
people don't know what they need
782
00:32:38,917 --> 00:32:41,166
until you place it right in front of them.
783
00:32:42,333 --> 00:32:43,750
Who are you?
784
00:32:43,834 --> 00:32:45,000
Gloria Merkel.
785
00:32:45,083 --> 00:32:46,375
Capricorn.
786
00:32:46,458 --> 00:32:49,834
Because I don't need you here,
Mrs. Merkel.
787
00:32:49,917 --> 00:32:51,458
I'm fine.
788
00:32:51,542 --> 00:32:53,667
But...
789
00:32:53,750 --> 00:32:57,208
if you want to help Laurel
to move forward,
790
00:32:57,291 --> 00:33:00,375
that's a plan I can get behind.
791
00:33:00,458 --> 00:33:01,875
Very well, then.
792
00:33:01,959 --> 00:33:04,667
If that's what the plan
needs to be in order to heal...
793
00:33:09,792 --> 00:33:11,000
Do you think
794
00:33:11,083 --> 00:33:13,208
they have chocolate-covered
strawberries here?
795
00:33:17,542 --> 00:33:19,250
♪ Jingle bells
Jingle bells ♪
796
00:33:19,333 --> 00:33:20,834
♪ Jingle all the way ♪
797
00:33:20,917 --> 00:33:25,959
♪ Oh, what fun it is to ride
in a one-horse open sleigh ♪
798
00:33:26,041 --> 00:33:27,041
Whoo!
799
00:33:27,125 --> 00:33:29,041
You guys are great!
You are ready.
800
00:33:29,125 --> 00:33:31,208
I sang it right this time,
Mrs. M!
801
00:33:31,291 --> 00:33:33,291
You sure did, and it was perfect!
802
00:33:33,375 --> 00:33:35,834
Now, you guys remember to bring
your costumes tomorrow
803
00:33:35,917 --> 00:33:37,291
for our final run-through, okay?
804
00:33:37,375 --> 00:33:38,875
Did you hear that, parents?
805
00:33:38,959 --> 00:33:42,834
You're about to be blown away
by your kids' talents. Really.
806
00:33:42,917 --> 00:33:44,458
Thank you again for doing this.
807
00:33:44,542 --> 00:33:46,000
Oh, of course.
808
00:33:46,083 --> 00:33:47,542
My older ones got to participate,
809
00:33:47,625 --> 00:33:49,333
but we didn't think Tasha was
gonna have the opportunity.
810
00:33:49,417 --> 00:33:51,542
It's so much fun.
811
00:33:51,625 --> 00:33:52,792
She's a real talent, this kid.
812
00:33:52,875 --> 00:33:54,709
Really, she takes direction
813
00:33:54,792 --> 00:33:57,917
and she brings her A-game
every time, like a pro.
814
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,667
Then I must be doing something right.
815
00:33:59,750 --> 00:34:01,417
I'll see you guys tomorrow.
816
00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:03,291
Bye!
817
00:34:03,375 --> 00:34:05,083
Okay. So, parents
818
00:34:05,166 --> 00:34:06,667
who are bringing snacks
for the performance
819
00:34:06,750 --> 00:34:08,375
- are confirmed.
- Okay, great.
820
00:34:08,458 --> 00:34:10,000
Oh, and would you save an extra seat
821
00:34:10,083 --> 00:34:11,375
for nana's caregiver?
822
00:34:11,458 --> 00:34:13,542
I'm gonna try to convince Nana to come.
823
00:34:13,625 --> 00:34:15,667
I'm hoping all the cuteness
will cheer her up.
824
00:34:15,750 --> 00:34:18,667
Done. How's it going
with the new caregiver?
825
00:34:18,750 --> 00:34:21,667
It's been... rough, yeah.
826
00:34:21,750 --> 00:34:24,083
Let's just say their chemistry
isn't instant, no.
827
00:34:24,166 --> 00:34:25,125
Oh.
828
00:34:27,083 --> 00:34:29,000
♪ Glo-o-o-o o-o-o ♪
829
00:34:29,083 --> 00:34:31,000
♪ ...o-o-o-oria ♪
830
00:34:31,083 --> 00:34:35,417
♪ In excelsis deo ♪
831
00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:37,667
Do you know that was written for me?
832
00:34:39,083 --> 00:34:40,667
- Laurel!
- Laurel.
833
00:34:40,750 --> 00:34:42,375
What's going on in here?
834
00:34:42,458 --> 00:34:43,750
Well, you can't have a tree-trimming party
835
00:34:43,834 --> 00:34:45,083
without freshly-baked goodies.
836
00:34:45,166 --> 00:34:46,959
- Can you?
- Of course. She knows that.
837
00:34:47,041 --> 00:34:48,834
Quite the change from this morning, huh?
838
00:34:52,917 --> 00:34:54,875
Ohh...
839
00:34:54,959 --> 00:34:57,542
oh, my goodness.
840
00:34:57,625 --> 00:34:59,709
Look how cute you were!
841
00:35:01,750 --> 00:35:03,125
Aww. With your braces?
842
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,166
That is from the first year
she came to live with us.
843
00:35:07,250 --> 00:35:09,000
Yeah.
844
00:35:09,083 --> 00:35:11,333
Pop had it made because he wanted her
845
00:35:11,417 --> 00:35:14,667
to feel like it was her tree.
846
00:35:14,750 --> 00:35:17,458
There was always a place for me
with Nana and Pop.
847
00:35:17,542 --> 00:35:18,458
Yeah, Pop was the best.
848
00:35:18,542 --> 00:35:19,417
I know.
849
00:35:21,959 --> 00:35:23,417
I wish we had all those old ornaments
850
00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:24,917
I used to make with Mom.
851
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,333
They were the worst.
852
00:35:26,417 --> 00:35:28,125
Do you remember?
853
00:35:28,208 --> 00:35:30,250
That angel that we had
for top of the tree?
854
00:35:30,333 --> 00:35:33,375
That crazy, lopsided thing,
with the googly eyes?
855
00:35:33,458 --> 00:35:35,834
And then, eventually,
the googly eyes fell off,
856
00:35:35,917 --> 00:35:36,834
so she had no eyes.
857
00:35:36,917 --> 00:35:40,166
She was very funky and off-kilter,
858
00:35:40,250 --> 00:35:42,375
and just fell off the tree constantly,
859
00:35:42,458 --> 00:35:43,667
but she never broke.
860
00:35:43,750 --> 00:35:44,917
Well, your mother said
861
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,458
it was because it was your guardian angel.
862
00:35:46,542 --> 00:35:48,041
Perhaps she was right.
863
00:35:48,125 --> 00:35:49,375
What happened to it?
864
00:35:49,458 --> 00:35:52,709
Uh, well, when my dad met Annie, his wife,
865
00:35:52,792 --> 00:35:54,625
and we all moved in together,
866
00:35:54,709 --> 00:35:58,291
a lot of my mom's stuff
was just lost, donated...
867
00:35:58,375 --> 00:35:59,709
I-I don't know.
868
00:35:59,792 --> 00:36:02,417
And then you came to live here,
surrounded by love.
869
00:36:02,500 --> 00:36:06,125
Yeah. Nana and Pop made sure
I didn't miss a beat.
870
00:36:07,542 --> 00:36:12,208
Not your typical nuclear family,
but whose family is, right?
871
00:36:12,291 --> 00:36:14,792
Well, except for maybe Will's.
872
00:36:18,709 --> 00:36:21,000
Um, how about some cocoa?
873
00:36:21,083 --> 00:36:22,333
Will?
874
00:36:22,417 --> 00:36:23,583
- Would you help me?
- Of course!
875
00:36:23,667 --> 00:36:24,917
Anything for your cocoa.
876
00:36:36,417 --> 00:36:38,250
Things were different...
877
00:36:38,333 --> 00:36:39,959
just more normal,
878
00:36:40,041 --> 00:36:41,291
when my mom was alive.
879
00:36:41,375 --> 00:36:43,166
From what I can remember.
880
00:36:43,250 --> 00:36:45,000
I was only six when she passed.
881
00:36:45,083 --> 00:36:46,583
That must've been very difficult.
882
00:36:46,667 --> 00:36:48,625
That's a huge loss for a young child.
883
00:36:48,709 --> 00:36:52,542
I think that's maybe why
I always wanted so badly to be--
884
00:36:52,625 --> 00:36:55,875
Ah. There is no greater love
than a mother to her child.
885
00:36:55,959 --> 00:36:58,959
Yeah. I...
wouldn't really know.
886
00:36:59,041 --> 00:37:00,291
Of course you would.
887
00:37:00,375 --> 00:37:02,875
Your grandmother
told me all about Jonathan.
888
00:37:02,959 --> 00:37:04,750
How he came into the world alone,
889
00:37:04,834 --> 00:37:07,125
his birth mother
couldn't take care of him,
890
00:37:07,208 --> 00:37:10,083
and you gave him a loving, nurturing home
891
00:37:10,166 --> 00:37:11,375
to start him off right.
892
00:37:11,458 --> 00:37:14,041
That's what a mother does,
Laurel...
893
00:37:14,125 --> 00:37:15,625
no matter how long it lasts.
894
00:37:16,834 --> 00:37:18,000
Do you have any children?
895
00:37:18,083 --> 00:37:19,041
I did.
896
00:37:19,125 --> 00:37:21,208
A daughter. Mercy.
897
00:37:21,291 --> 00:37:23,333
She was a spunky one.
898
00:37:23,417 --> 00:37:25,000
She passed fairly young.
899
00:37:26,208 --> 00:37:27,792
I'm so sorry.
900
00:37:27,875 --> 00:37:30,458
Sometimes, it feels like a century ago,
901
00:37:30,542 --> 00:37:33,375
and other times, it feels like
it was just yesterday.
902
00:37:33,458 --> 00:37:35,667
How do you look at the world
with such optimism,
903
00:37:35,750 --> 00:37:36,959
when you've been through so much?
904
00:37:37,041 --> 00:37:38,875
The wound never fully heals,
905
00:37:38,959 --> 00:37:41,875
but the aching subsides
906
00:37:41,959 --> 00:37:44,250
when we're ready
to focus on the joy again.
907
00:37:50,458 --> 00:37:52,875
Something's on your mind, Will.
908
00:37:52,959 --> 00:37:54,875
Oh. No, no.
909
00:37:54,959 --> 00:37:57,041
It's just work and life--
910
00:37:57,125 --> 00:37:59,208
Spill it.
911
00:37:59,291 --> 00:38:01,333
You know me too well, Nana.
912
00:38:01,417 --> 00:38:02,333
Um...
913
00:38:02,417 --> 00:38:04,417
I...
914
00:38:04,500 --> 00:38:06,875
put us back on the foster list.
915
00:38:06,959 --> 00:38:07,917
Oh, that's wonderful!
916
00:38:09,083 --> 00:38:10,291
Laurel doesn't know.
917
00:38:10,375 --> 00:38:12,375
Oh, that's not wonderful, Will.
918
00:38:12,458 --> 00:38:13,709
You know, in the moment,
919
00:38:13,792 --> 00:38:15,333
it just so felt so much like
the right thing to do,
920
00:38:15,417 --> 00:38:16,542
I couldn't say no.
921
00:38:16,625 --> 00:38:17,625
I literally tried
922
00:38:17,709 --> 00:38:20,333
and I couldn't get the words out.
923
00:38:20,417 --> 00:38:23,166
Laurel is still saying
that she's not ready.
924
00:38:23,250 --> 00:38:25,333
Sometimes, we don't know what we need
925
00:38:25,417 --> 00:38:27,500
until it's placed right in front of us.
926
00:38:27,583 --> 00:38:28,959
Tell her what it means to you,
927
00:38:29,041 --> 00:38:31,875
because it means the same thing to her.
928
00:38:31,959 --> 00:38:35,333
She just can't see it yet,
through her pain.
929
00:38:40,458 --> 00:38:41,917
Hey, Laurel--
930
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:43,333
this is our song.
931
00:38:43,417 --> 00:38:44,875
This doesn't sound
932
00:38:44,959 --> 00:38:46,875
like Guns N' Roses, "Sweet Child o' Mine."
933
00:38:46,959 --> 00:38:48,792
All right, so it's not our song per se,
934
00:38:48,875 --> 00:38:49,875
but it's still a good one.
935
00:38:49,959 --> 00:38:51,875
May I?
936
00:38:51,959 --> 00:38:53,375
You may.
937
00:38:58,333 --> 00:39:00,500
I have a wonderful idea.
938
00:39:00,583 --> 00:39:02,542
Date night!
939
00:39:02,625 --> 00:39:04,291
Who are you going on a date with, Nana?
940
00:39:04,375 --> 00:39:07,000
Not me.
For you two.
941
00:39:07,083 --> 00:39:08,500
It is a fabulous idea.
942
00:39:08,583 --> 00:39:10,542
I will stay here with Helen
and get everything finished.
943
00:39:10,625 --> 00:39:11,542
No, no, no, no, no.
944
00:39:11,625 --> 00:39:13,041
We couldn't ask you to stay late.
945
00:39:13,125 --> 00:39:15,291
- No.
- You didn't ask, and I insist.
946
00:39:15,375 --> 00:39:16,875
Besides,
947
00:39:16,959 --> 00:39:18,583
there're some other things
around the house I'd like to do.
948
00:39:18,667 --> 00:39:20,667
They say that I have "the touch".
949
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,083
What do you say?
950
00:39:23,166 --> 00:39:25,417
It has been a while.
951
00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:26,792
Go!
952
00:39:26,875 --> 00:39:29,875
Even if only to walk along the waterfront.
953
00:39:29,959 --> 00:39:32,291
There's that holiday
food festival down there.
954
00:39:32,375 --> 00:39:33,250
Oh, yeah.
955
00:39:33,333 --> 00:39:35,750
It will do you good.
956
00:39:38,333 --> 00:39:39,792
All right, let's do it.
957
00:39:43,542 --> 00:39:44,917
Gosh, it feels like forever
958
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,083
since we've been down here.
959
00:39:46,166 --> 00:39:47,125
How did we let that happen?
960
00:39:47,208 --> 00:39:48,500
We've got a lot on our plate.
961
00:39:48,583 --> 00:39:50,333
Yeah.
962
00:39:50,417 --> 00:39:52,875
We need to make time for
this sort of thing, you know?
963
00:39:52,959 --> 00:39:54,458
To connect.
964
00:39:54,542 --> 00:39:57,291
Maybe bring back the old picnic?
965
00:39:58,458 --> 00:40:00,000
On the bench where we met?
966
00:40:00,083 --> 00:40:01,959
I don't know if you could say
that "we met" there.
967
00:40:02,041 --> 00:40:03,083
You tripped me.
968
00:40:03,166 --> 00:40:05,834
Okay, well, not a proper introduction,
969
00:40:05,917 --> 00:40:09,125
but, in my defense,
I was just stretching my legs,
970
00:40:09,208 --> 00:40:11,000
so you should've been
watching where you were jogging.
971
00:40:11,083 --> 00:40:12,458
Well, I'm glad I wasn't,
972
00:40:12,542 --> 00:40:14,375
because you had to make sure
that I didn't break my face,
973
00:40:14,458 --> 00:40:16,417
and the rest... is history.
974
00:40:18,250 --> 00:40:20,458
And that was the moment
I understood why people say,
975
00:40:20,542 --> 00:40:21,709
"There are no accidents."
976
00:40:21,792 --> 00:40:23,000
Mm.
977
00:40:23,083 --> 00:40:25,959
Back when we had
the whole world ahead of us.
978
00:40:27,667 --> 00:40:29,750
The whole world
is still ahead of us, Laurel.
979
00:40:29,834 --> 00:40:31,667
We just got to believe it.
980
00:40:34,542 --> 00:40:36,917
You know, there's something
I wanted to talk to you about--
981
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:37,875
Wait.
982
00:40:37,959 --> 00:40:39,458
Could be Nana.
983
00:40:41,625 --> 00:40:45,250
Nope. Just my dad, checking
on dinner plans tomorrow night.
984
00:40:45,333 --> 00:40:46,709
You're still angry.
985
00:40:46,792 --> 00:40:49,250
I don't know.
986
00:40:49,333 --> 00:40:53,542
You know, all I needed
was him to talk about my mom,
987
00:40:53,625 --> 00:40:54,625
and then he met Annie
988
00:40:54,709 --> 00:40:55,792
and it was like she never existed.
989
00:40:55,875 --> 00:40:57,875
Maybe he wants to apologize for that.
990
00:40:57,959 --> 00:41:00,583
Oh, I don't think apologizing
is in that man's DNA.
991
00:41:00,667 --> 00:41:02,834
Maybe he's had some kind of epiphany.
992
00:41:04,458 --> 00:41:06,875
Wow, look at you, giving him
the benefit of the doubt.
993
00:41:06,959 --> 00:41:09,542
Looks like Mrs. Miracle's
rubbing off on you, huh?
994
00:41:09,625 --> 00:41:10,959
Yeah, I think we could
995
00:41:11,041 --> 00:41:13,291
all stand to be a little bit
more like Mrs. Miracle.
996
00:41:13,375 --> 00:41:15,333
I guess I'm just not ready to forgive him.
997
00:41:15,417 --> 00:41:17,709
And you can't force people to move on.
998
00:41:17,792 --> 00:41:19,291
They have to do it in their own time.
999
00:41:19,375 --> 00:41:20,542
Why don't you go meet up with him
1000
00:41:20,625 --> 00:41:21,959
and say what you need to say?
1001
00:41:22,041 --> 00:41:24,208
Yeah. I could do that,
1002
00:41:24,291 --> 00:41:27,709
and just tell him how I feel
one last time,
1003
00:41:27,792 --> 00:41:29,792
and if he doesn't get it, then...
1004
00:41:29,875 --> 00:41:31,291
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
1005
00:41:31,375 --> 00:41:33,208
What were you gonna say?
1006
00:41:33,291 --> 00:41:35,625
Um...
1007
00:41:35,709 --> 00:41:37,208
I just--
1008
00:41:37,291 --> 00:41:40,291
I wanted to say how nice it was
to see you smiling again,
1009
00:41:40,375 --> 00:41:41,959
when we were decorating the tree.
1010
00:41:42,041 --> 00:41:43,917
- Really?
- Yeah.
1011
00:41:51,667 --> 00:41:53,792
Let's go find our bench.
1012
00:41:53,875 --> 00:41:54,959
People-watch.
1013
00:41:55,041 --> 00:41:57,417
Okay. But no tripping anyone this time.
1014
00:41:59,208 --> 00:42:02,709
I don't need to trip anyone.
I already have my catch.
1015
00:42:06,917 --> 00:42:09,375
What... in the world?
1016
00:42:09,458 --> 00:42:11,750
I mean... how?
1017
00:42:11,834 --> 00:42:14,500
How long were we even gone?
1018
00:42:14,583 --> 00:42:16,417
Like, a couple of hours, max.
1019
00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:18,417
I didn't even know we had this much stuff.
1020
00:42:18,500 --> 00:42:19,709
Well, they did say that they were gonna
1021
00:42:19,792 --> 00:42:21,542
go to the store to get some more lights,
1022
00:42:21,625 --> 00:42:23,291
but, boy, did they ever!
1023
00:42:23,375 --> 00:42:24,625
Yeah.
1024
00:42:24,709 --> 00:42:26,166
Well?
1025
00:42:26,250 --> 00:42:27,458
What do you think?
1026
00:42:27,542 --> 00:42:30,250
You two didn't do this by yourselves?
1027
00:42:30,333 --> 00:42:32,000
Oh, heavens, no!
We had help!
1028
00:42:32,083 --> 00:42:33,834
- "Gabe"?
- Among others.
1029
00:42:33,917 --> 00:42:35,333
We did the inside, too.
1030
00:42:35,417 --> 00:42:36,542
Come see!
1031
00:42:43,875 --> 00:42:45,750
Wow.
1032
00:43:17,583 --> 00:43:19,291
Are you okay, darling?
1033
00:43:19,375 --> 00:43:21,000
I'm fine.
1034
00:43:21,083 --> 00:43:22,750
I do that from time to time, too.
1035
00:43:23,959 --> 00:43:25,792
Take in the memories.
1036
00:43:27,041 --> 00:43:28,750
I wish it helped.
1037
00:43:28,834 --> 00:43:30,709
Come!
1038
00:43:30,792 --> 00:43:32,291
We haven't watched Jeopardy in a while,
1039
00:43:32,375 --> 00:43:34,625
and I need to keep this brain sharp.
1040
00:43:34,709 --> 00:43:35,750
Ha! Please.
1041
00:43:35,834 --> 00:43:37,250
You're the sharpest of all of us.
1042
00:43:43,959 --> 00:43:45,792
Ah. Hi.
1043
00:43:45,875 --> 00:43:47,083
So, who won?
1044
00:43:47,166 --> 00:43:48,375
Well, Nana got more right,
1045
00:43:48,458 --> 00:43:49,750
but I got all the Daily Doubles,
1046
00:43:49,834 --> 00:43:51,000
so I'll call it a draw.
1047
00:43:52,959 --> 00:43:54,166
Tonight was really nice.
1048
00:43:54,250 --> 00:43:55,250
It was.
1049
00:43:55,333 --> 00:43:56,458
Having some alone time.
1050
00:43:56,542 --> 00:43:57,667
Yeah.
1051
00:43:57,750 --> 00:43:58,917
Being down on the waterfront.
1052
00:43:59,000 --> 00:43:59,959
Yeah.
1053
00:44:00,041 --> 00:44:01,458
The house just feels alive again.
1054
00:44:02,959 --> 00:44:04,667
And man, these cookies are good.
1055
00:44:04,750 --> 00:44:06,792
Do not tell Nana
I said that, please.
1056
00:44:06,875 --> 00:44:08,041
No! You can tell her.
1057
00:44:08,125 --> 00:44:10,500
They made them together,
like the best of friends.
1058
00:44:10,583 --> 00:44:11,709
I know, I have no idea what happened
1059
00:44:11,792 --> 00:44:12,709
since this morning,
1060
00:44:12,792 --> 00:44:14,208
to make such a turn.
1061
00:44:14,291 --> 00:44:16,250
All Nana said was that they realized
1062
00:44:16,333 --> 00:44:17,834
how much they had in common
1063
00:44:17,917 --> 00:44:19,458
and they "came to an arrangement".
1064
00:44:19,542 --> 00:44:20,875
Hey, it's a good thing.
It'll take it.
1065
00:44:20,959 --> 00:44:22,583
Yeah!
1066
00:44:22,667 --> 00:44:25,625
I feel like Nana's starting
to wake up a bit.
1067
00:44:25,709 --> 00:44:29,041
And obviously, Gloria's got her
to embrace the holidays again.
1068
00:44:29,125 --> 00:44:30,375
Yeah, and then some.
1069
00:44:30,458 --> 00:44:32,000
You know...
1070
00:44:32,083 --> 00:44:33,208
maybe we're all coming out
1071
00:44:33,291 --> 00:44:35,500
the other side of this dark period.
1072
00:44:35,583 --> 00:44:37,458
Yeah. Maybe.
1073
00:44:38,959 --> 00:44:41,250
You know, Laurel...
1074
00:44:41,333 --> 00:44:42,917
Will.
1075
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,542
We're just starting
to feel good again, you know?
1076
00:44:45,625 --> 00:44:49,125
Let's not do anything
that would disrupt that.
1077
00:44:55,667 --> 00:44:57,125
Good morning.
Come on in!
1078
00:44:57,208 --> 00:44:58,125
Good morning.
1079
00:44:58,208 --> 00:45:00,083
Hello, Helen!
1080
00:45:00,166 --> 00:45:03,083
We're going ballroom dancing today.
1081
00:45:03,166 --> 00:45:04,917
Wow!
1082
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:06,333
Nana?
1083
00:45:07,625 --> 00:45:08,917
I'm going to change.
1084
00:45:10,417 --> 00:45:13,208
I certainly can't wear this to go dancing.
1085
00:45:15,834 --> 00:45:18,125
So is there anyone else
we need to get gifts for?
1086
00:45:18,208 --> 00:45:19,542
Do you want me to pick up
something for your father,
1087
00:45:19,625 --> 00:45:21,166
since you're gonna see him tonight?
1088
00:45:21,250 --> 00:45:24,166
Oh, no. No, we stopped
doing gifts a long time ago.
1089
00:45:24,250 --> 00:45:26,083
That would just be weird.
1090
00:45:26,166 --> 00:45:28,792
Got it. And what do you want
for Christmas, Mrs. McCullough?
1091
00:45:28,875 --> 00:45:30,583
Assuming you're on the "nice" list.
1092
00:45:30,667 --> 00:45:33,000
Do not spend a lot of money on me.
1093
00:45:33,083 --> 00:45:35,583
What if I want
to get you something special?
1094
00:45:35,667 --> 00:45:36,792
All I need for Christmas
1095
00:45:36,875 --> 00:45:38,917
is for Nana to be okay again.
1096
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:40,333
Yeah.
1097
00:45:40,417 --> 00:45:41,583
She's on her way.
1098
00:45:41,667 --> 00:45:42,834
Don't worry.
1099
00:45:42,917 --> 00:45:44,333
I won't go too crazy
on your gift this year.
1100
00:45:44,417 --> 00:45:46,333
Nothing with a comma
in the price tag, I swear.
1101
00:45:46,417 --> 00:45:48,041
Okay.
1102
00:45:48,125 --> 00:45:50,125
Love you. Bye.
1103
00:46:11,500 --> 00:46:13,333
They're so pretty.
1104
00:46:14,542 --> 00:46:16,166
Yes, they are.
And my wife
1105
00:46:16,250 --> 00:46:17,750
would kill me if I spent that much.
1106
00:46:17,834 --> 00:46:19,750
Can't put a price tag on happiness.
1107
00:46:19,834 --> 00:46:21,375
Can I help you find something else?
1108
00:46:21,458 --> 00:46:23,583
No, thanks.
I think I'm good.
1109
00:46:23,667 --> 00:46:25,959
There are sales going on in every section.
1110
00:46:26,041 --> 00:46:28,208
Very exciting stuff
for everyone on your list.
1111
00:46:28,291 --> 00:46:30,291
Well, if I have any questions,
I'll come and find you.
1112
00:46:30,375 --> 00:46:32,000
You should check out
the children's section.
1113
00:46:32,083 --> 00:46:33,291
It'll blow your mind.
1114
00:46:33,375 --> 00:46:35,542
They're practically giving things away.
1115
00:46:35,625 --> 00:46:37,125
It's like... pow!
1116
00:46:37,208 --> 00:46:39,291
I don't have children, so...
1117
00:46:39,375 --> 00:46:41,083
You don't?
1118
00:46:41,166 --> 00:46:43,083
No.
1119
00:46:43,166 --> 00:46:44,375
Are you sure?
1120
00:46:44,458 --> 00:46:45,917
So...
1121
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:47,625
I didn't see you in here with
your daughter the other day?
1122
00:46:47,709 --> 00:46:50,000
I don't have a daughter.
Wasn't me.
1123
00:46:52,125 --> 00:46:53,959
You will.
1124
00:46:56,917 --> 00:46:58,959
I'm sorry, what was that you said?
1125
00:46:59,041 --> 00:47:00,792
I just said, if you need
any help, come find me.
1126
00:47:00,875 --> 00:47:02,041
The name's Mercy.
1127
00:47:03,375 --> 00:47:04,959
Okay.
1128
00:47:10,291 --> 00:47:13,333
Helen Atwater!
I can't believe my eyes!
1129
00:47:13,417 --> 00:47:15,125
And, contrary to popular opinion,
1130
00:47:15,208 --> 00:47:17,041
I'm still at 20/20 vision.
1131
00:47:17,125 --> 00:47:19,125
Look at you.
1132
00:47:19,208 --> 00:47:21,291
And in a dress!
1133
00:47:21,375 --> 00:47:23,166
Who is this miracle worker
that brought Miss Havisham
1134
00:47:23,250 --> 00:47:24,208
out of the house?
1135
00:47:24,291 --> 00:47:25,625
This is Gloria, my--
1136
00:47:25,709 --> 00:47:27,542
Temporary helper!
1137
00:47:27,625 --> 00:47:30,000
Helen said that she wanted
to come and see her friends
1138
00:47:30,083 --> 00:47:31,417
and I was all too happy to oblige.
1139
00:47:31,500 --> 00:47:33,750
So, let me guess.
You're Grace...
1140
00:47:33,834 --> 00:47:34,875
and you're Shirley.
1141
00:47:36,125 --> 00:47:37,208
And you must be Art.
1142
00:47:37,291 --> 00:47:38,500
I am Art!
1143
00:47:38,583 --> 00:47:40,542
And it is a pleasure to meet you.
1144
00:47:40,625 --> 00:47:42,625
Any friend of Helen's...
1145
00:47:42,709 --> 00:47:44,625
Shall we go in?
I brought my dancing shoes.
1146
00:47:49,750 --> 00:47:52,709
How did you know their names?
I don't recall mentioning them.
1147
00:47:52,792 --> 00:47:55,166
Didn't you? Come on.
1148
00:47:55,250 --> 00:47:57,458
Let's go bust a move, Helen.
1149
00:47:57,542 --> 00:47:58,500
Let's go.
1150
00:48:02,041 --> 00:48:03,083
Shall we dance?
1151
00:48:03,166 --> 00:48:05,333
I'm afraid I'm a bit rusty.
1152
00:48:05,417 --> 00:48:06,709
I'll be gentle.
1153
00:48:06,792 --> 00:48:07,917
All right.
1154
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,458
It comes back to you.
It's like riding a bike.
1155
00:48:10,542 --> 00:48:12,208
Which I haven't done since '89,
1156
00:48:12,291 --> 00:48:15,458
so maybe it's not the best example.
1157
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,250
I'm sorry I haven't
been by since the funeral.
1158
00:48:20,333 --> 00:48:22,542
Oh. It's okay, Art.
1159
00:48:22,625 --> 00:48:25,583
I know how important
Robert was to you.
1160
00:48:28,125 --> 00:48:31,375
After Margie passed...
1161
00:48:31,458 --> 00:48:33,291
I didn't want to see anyone.
1162
00:48:33,375 --> 00:48:36,500
I couldn't take those people
giving me that look anymore.
1163
00:48:37,750 --> 00:48:40,959
I know that exact look.
1164
00:48:41,041 --> 00:48:43,542
It's mixture of pity and sympathy.
1165
00:48:44,834 --> 00:48:47,500
I don't need anyone fussing over me.
1166
00:48:47,583 --> 00:48:49,208
Oh, I hated the fuss.
1167
00:48:49,291 --> 00:48:52,500
I can get my own plate of food, thank you.
1168
00:48:53,500 --> 00:48:54,458
Exactly.
1169
00:48:56,792 --> 00:48:58,458
It gets easier.
1170
00:48:58,542 --> 00:49:00,667
With time.
1171
00:49:00,750 --> 00:49:02,959
I'm counting on it.
1172
00:49:16,583 --> 00:49:18,875
Hi, Dad.
1173
00:49:18,959 --> 00:49:20,458
Hi.
1174
00:49:20,542 --> 00:49:22,166
Oh.
1175
00:49:25,667 --> 00:49:27,250
Oh, thanks.
1176
00:49:30,834 --> 00:49:32,875
This is nice.
1177
00:49:32,959 --> 00:49:34,542
Yeah. Um, I'm glad you like it.
1178
00:49:34,625 --> 00:49:36,750
So...
1179
00:49:36,834 --> 00:49:38,917
How are you? How's Will?
1180
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,041
- Nana?
- Good. Yeah.
1181
00:49:40,125 --> 00:49:42,250
You know, everybody's... good.
1182
00:49:42,333 --> 00:49:43,208
Just hanging in there.
1183
00:49:43,291 --> 00:49:44,750
Good.
1184
00:49:44,834 --> 00:49:45,875
That's, uh, good.
1185
00:49:45,959 --> 00:49:47,417
Let's not beat around the bush, Dad.
1186
00:49:47,500 --> 00:49:49,834
Why don't we just address
the elephant in the room?
1187
00:49:49,917 --> 00:49:51,625
Why am I here?
That's what you want to know.
1188
00:49:51,709 --> 00:49:54,125
Well, I mean, you're here to see clients.
1189
00:49:54,208 --> 00:49:56,208
There's no client, Laurel.
1190
00:49:56,291 --> 00:49:57,875
I wanted to see you.
1191
00:49:57,959 --> 00:50:00,959
You know, that's the first time
that you've ever come to see me,
1192
00:50:01,041 --> 00:50:02,542
without piggy-backing on a business trip?
1193
00:50:04,250 --> 00:50:05,875
I don't think that's true.
1194
00:50:05,959 --> 00:50:08,041
I mean, we've spent plenty of
time together over the years.
1195
00:50:08,125 --> 00:50:09,083
One week, during the summer.
1196
00:50:09,166 --> 00:50:12,417
And I came to you every time.
1197
00:50:15,625 --> 00:50:17,792
Elina started therapy,
1198
00:50:17,875 --> 00:50:21,041
and told me I wasn't present
during her childhood.
1199
00:50:21,125 --> 00:50:23,709
You want me to tell you
you were a great father?
1200
00:50:23,792 --> 00:50:26,500
No. No. No, no. I'm...
1201
00:50:26,583 --> 00:50:29,208
I'm here to say
I'm sorry I wasn't.
1202
00:50:31,041 --> 00:50:32,750
I mean, I was for Elina.
1203
00:50:32,834 --> 00:50:34,208
I'm not quite sure
what she's talking about,
1204
00:50:34,291 --> 00:50:36,583
but I... I didn't do right by you, Laurel.
1205
00:50:36,667 --> 00:50:37,917
No. You did not.
1206
00:50:39,792 --> 00:50:41,417
You made me feel replaceable.
1207
00:50:43,542 --> 00:50:45,125
Like Mom was replaceable.
1208
00:50:50,458 --> 00:50:52,625
Ahem. Here.
1209
00:50:56,542 --> 00:50:58,583
Open it.
1210
00:51:05,291 --> 00:51:09,000
I thought this was lost
or given away or something.
1211
00:51:09,083 --> 00:51:10,542
I thought so, too,
1212
00:51:10,625 --> 00:51:13,583
but I was cleaning out
the attic last week,
1213
00:51:13,667 --> 00:51:16,250
and there it was,
behind some boxes in the corner,
1214
00:51:16,333 --> 00:51:17,583
just sitting there, looking at me.
1215
00:51:17,667 --> 00:51:20,709
You know, its wonky head,
cocked to one side--
1216
00:51:23,959 --> 00:51:26,166
Your mother loved
making those things with you.
1217
00:51:27,333 --> 00:51:28,917
They were ... awful...
1218
00:51:30,709 --> 00:51:32,208
...but there's nothing she loved more.
1219
00:51:32,291 --> 00:51:33,917
I know. Me too.
1220
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,875
It's one of my absolute
favorite memories of her.
1221
00:51:36,959 --> 00:51:38,917
I don't have many.
1222
00:51:41,291 --> 00:51:42,917
It's the strangest thing.
1223
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,166
I saw it
1224
00:51:45,250 --> 00:51:48,000
and I just felt like
I needed to get it to you.
1225
00:51:49,959 --> 00:51:51,583
And to apologize
1226
00:51:51,667 --> 00:51:53,625
for not taking better care with it.
1227
00:51:55,250 --> 00:51:57,959
With all her things...
1228
00:51:58,041 --> 00:52:00,709
her memory.
1229
00:52:00,792 --> 00:52:02,291
Wow. I just-- I feel like
1230
00:52:02,375 --> 00:52:04,875
I have a part of her that was lost.
1231
00:52:06,500 --> 00:52:09,625
This means so much to me.
Thank you.
1232
00:52:12,125 --> 00:52:16,000
I'm sorry I didn't know
how to be what you needed.
1233
00:52:16,083 --> 00:52:18,417
I didn't know how to get
through the grief myself--
1234
00:52:18,500 --> 00:52:20,375
how could I possibly know
what a six-year-old needed?
1235
00:52:21,667 --> 00:52:23,000
Nana and Pop did.
1236
00:52:23,083 --> 00:52:25,500
And I'm grateful to them for that.
1237
00:52:27,250 --> 00:52:29,750
How can I make it up to you?
1238
00:52:32,750 --> 00:52:34,208
Why don't we start with dinner?
1239
00:52:34,291 --> 00:52:37,208
Oh, yes.
That would be good.
1240
00:52:38,959 --> 00:52:40,834
And one more thing--
1241
00:52:40,917 --> 00:52:45,250
if Elina thinks
that you weren't there for her,
1242
00:52:45,333 --> 00:52:46,709
hear her out.
1243
00:52:47,875 --> 00:52:48,834
Her feelings are real.
1244
00:52:59,667 --> 00:53:01,667
What are you guys doing in here?
1245
00:53:01,750 --> 00:53:03,750
We're going to the quilting club tomorrow
1246
00:53:03,834 --> 00:53:05,208
and Helen is going to teach me
1247
00:53:05,291 --> 00:53:07,375
how to make a proper quilt with these.
1248
00:53:07,458 --> 00:53:08,917
Among other things,
1249
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,083
but you'll have to wait till Christmas
1250
00:53:11,166 --> 00:53:12,250
till you see it.
1251
00:53:12,333 --> 00:53:14,458
Well, Christmas is only five days away.
1252
00:53:14,542 --> 00:53:15,750
Oh, well, you know me.
1253
00:53:15,834 --> 00:53:18,333
That's all I need
when I get the gang together.
1254
00:53:18,417 --> 00:53:20,583
I love that you're getting
the gang together again.
1255
00:53:20,667 --> 00:53:22,166
Hey. How was dinner?
1256
00:53:22,250 --> 00:53:24,709
It was actually really good.
1257
00:53:24,792 --> 00:53:26,125
He did want to apologize.
1258
00:53:26,208 --> 00:53:27,917
- Hmm.
- And...
1259
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:29,792
he brought me this.
1260
00:53:29,875 --> 00:53:31,041
No way!
1261
00:53:31,125 --> 00:53:33,542
The long-lost angel returns home?
1262
00:53:33,625 --> 00:53:34,709
You're kidding me.
1263
00:53:34,792 --> 00:53:37,333
These things have a way of turning up.
1264
00:53:37,417 --> 00:53:39,041
He said that he found it
1265
00:53:39,125 --> 00:53:40,500
in some far corner of the attic,
1266
00:53:40,583 --> 00:53:42,166
like it was taunting him,
1267
00:53:42,250 --> 00:53:45,333
and it helped show him
the error of his ways...
1268
00:53:47,500 --> 00:53:50,750
...so maybe Mom was right,
maybe it is my guardian angel,
1269
00:53:50,834 --> 00:53:54,041
even without its googly eyes.
1270
00:53:54,125 --> 00:53:55,291
Let's put her on the tree!
1271
00:53:55,375 --> 00:53:56,542
Let's do it!
1272
00:53:56,625 --> 00:53:57,834
Great idea.
1273
00:54:01,834 --> 00:54:02,750
Allow me--
1274
00:54:02,834 --> 00:54:03,750
- Thank you.
- ...my lady.
1275
00:54:03,834 --> 00:54:04,792
Kind sir.
1276
00:54:06,834 --> 00:54:09,208
There we go.
1277
00:54:09,291 --> 00:54:11,375
An angel in your house, they say,
1278
00:54:11,458 --> 00:54:13,208
will guide your family night and day.
1279
00:54:15,291 --> 00:54:18,333
I feel like I read that
on a poster in Sunday school.
1280
00:54:21,625 --> 00:54:24,583
Gloria, will you come
to candlelight mass with us
1281
00:54:24,667 --> 00:54:25,500
on Christmas Eve?
1282
00:54:25,583 --> 00:54:27,375
Nana.
1283
00:54:27,458 --> 00:54:29,875
Gloria probably doesn't want
to be working on Christmas Eve.
1284
00:54:29,959 --> 00:54:32,917
She probably wants to spend it
with family or friends? Gabe?
1285
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:34,250
There's plenty of time for loved ones.
1286
00:54:34,333 --> 00:54:36,000
A candlelight mass
1287
00:54:36,083 --> 00:54:38,208
is an invitation
I couldn't possibly refuse.
1288
00:54:39,583 --> 00:54:41,625
What about you?
Will you come?
1289
00:54:42,834 --> 00:54:45,208
I just-- well, I need to just concentrate
1290
00:54:45,291 --> 00:54:46,709
on the kids' performance,
1291
00:54:46,792 --> 00:54:48,500
and then I'll worry about Christmas Eve.
1292
00:54:48,583 --> 00:54:50,500
I'm gonna, um, make some tea.
1293
00:54:50,583 --> 00:54:52,208
Do you guys want any?
1294
00:54:52,291 --> 00:54:54,917
Uh, I'll help.
1295
00:54:55,041 --> 00:54:56,583
Okay.
1296
00:54:59,875 --> 00:55:00,959
Good!
1297
00:55:01,041 --> 00:55:03,417
Now that I have you alone...
1298
00:55:03,500 --> 00:55:04,917
I think Gloria--
1299
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:06,041
"Mrs. Miracle"--
1300
00:55:06,125 --> 00:55:07,208
Yeah?
1301
00:55:07,291 --> 00:55:08,291
...is an angel.
1302
00:55:08,375 --> 00:55:10,959
Oh! Good.
I think she's an angel, too.
1303
00:55:11,041 --> 00:55:12,542
No, Laurel!
1304
00:55:12,625 --> 00:55:16,500
I mean, a real live angel...
come to Earth.
1305
00:55:18,083 --> 00:55:21,375
Wow. Think about what you're saying. 'Kay?
1306
00:55:22,583 --> 00:55:24,750
Well, you cannot deny
1307
00:55:24,834 --> 00:55:27,041
that strange things have
happened since she arrived.
1308
00:55:27,125 --> 00:55:28,667
What things?
1309
00:55:28,750 --> 00:55:31,917
For one thing,
snickerdoodles on the first day?
1310
00:55:33,417 --> 00:55:36,208
Coincidence?
I think not.
1311
00:55:36,291 --> 00:55:41,041
And she knew all about
Grace and Shirley and Art,
1312
00:55:41,125 --> 00:55:43,667
and I have never mentioned them
to her. Have you?
1313
00:55:43,750 --> 00:55:46,333
I... no, I don't think so.
1314
00:55:46,417 --> 00:55:47,542
Maybe Will has?
1315
00:55:49,583 --> 00:55:51,542
And her car!
A '56 Fairlane?
1316
00:55:51,625 --> 00:55:53,542
I know, she does have really good taste.
1317
00:55:53,625 --> 00:55:54,917
Pop's taste!
1318
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:58,125
And now your mother's angel
has suddenly resurfaced!
1319
00:55:58,208 --> 00:56:00,000
She called that days ago.
1320
00:56:00,083 --> 00:56:03,083
Nana. Nana, none of this
means what you're saying.
1321
00:56:03,166 --> 00:56:06,083
She always knows just what we need.
1322
00:56:06,166 --> 00:56:08,709
Yeah, because she's good at her job.
1323
00:56:08,792 --> 00:56:11,792
Laurel, open your mind for just a moment.
1324
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:14,375
You used to believe.
1325
00:56:14,458 --> 00:56:17,291
I don't believe in angels anymore, Nana.
1326
00:56:18,792 --> 00:56:21,125
That's okay.
1327
00:56:21,208 --> 00:56:24,041
Because I think they still believe in you.
1328
00:56:34,166 --> 00:56:36,458
So what if your grandmother believes it?
1329
00:56:36,542 --> 00:56:37,417
I mean, look at her.
She's come alive.
1330
00:56:38,917 --> 00:56:40,375
What's the harm in thinking
1331
00:56:40,458 --> 00:56:43,959
something a little out there, you know?
1332
00:56:44,041 --> 00:56:45,792
I just hope that, in her grief,
1333
00:56:45,875 --> 00:56:48,166
she hasn't lost her grip on reality.
1334
00:56:48,250 --> 00:56:50,083
No, I think it's actually the opposite.
1335
00:56:50,166 --> 00:56:51,125
She's getting it back.
1336
00:56:51,208 --> 00:56:53,083
I mean, she's thinking to the future.
1337
00:56:53,166 --> 00:56:55,709
Maybe you could do some of that, too?
1338
00:56:56,959 --> 00:56:58,500
That's not fair, Will.
1339
00:57:00,041 --> 00:57:01,709
It was the most vivid dream.
1340
00:57:03,125 --> 00:57:06,417
It was like Robert was
right there in the room with me.
1341
00:57:06,500 --> 00:57:08,208
Because he was.
1342
00:57:08,291 --> 00:57:09,333
In your heart.
1343
00:57:09,417 --> 00:57:10,792
After Mercy passed,
1344
00:57:10,875 --> 00:57:12,417
I used to talk to her all the time,
1345
00:57:12,500 --> 00:57:14,959
and I'd like to think she heard all of it.
1346
00:57:15,041 --> 00:57:17,166
"Mercy"? That--
That was your daughter's name?
1347
00:57:19,083 --> 00:57:21,500
That's a...
That's a very pretty name.
1348
00:57:21,583 --> 00:57:22,792
All right, well,
1349
00:57:22,875 --> 00:57:24,125
I gotta dash off and prep for tonight,
1350
00:57:24,208 --> 00:57:26,417
and get my classroom ready
for winter camp,
1351
00:57:26,500 --> 00:57:28,000
but it's gonna be quite the show.
1352
00:57:28,083 --> 00:57:29,792
I'll see you there?
1353
00:57:29,875 --> 00:57:32,583
If only so I can say
"I knew you back when,"
1354
00:57:32,667 --> 00:57:34,208
before the show went to Broadway.
1355
00:57:36,625 --> 00:57:37,542
See ya.
1356
00:57:40,125 --> 00:57:41,333
We should get her flowers.
1357
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,041
You know, even better,
1358
00:57:45,125 --> 00:57:47,000
I saw this pair of earrings
I know she'd love,
1359
00:57:47,083 --> 00:57:48,750
but I promised
I wouldn't spend too much
1360
00:57:48,834 --> 00:57:49,959
on her Christmas present.
1361
00:57:50,041 --> 00:57:52,166
Technically, it's not a Christmas present,
1362
00:57:52,250 --> 00:57:54,417
so it's actually not against the rules.
1363
00:57:54,500 --> 00:57:56,250
Semantics, but I like it.
1364
00:57:56,333 --> 00:57:57,583
Why don't we split it?
1365
00:57:57,667 --> 00:58:00,875
Well, she does so much for everyone else.
1366
00:58:00,959 --> 00:58:02,583
I would like to do something nice for her.
1367
00:58:02,667 --> 00:58:04,333
Deal.
1368
00:58:04,417 --> 00:58:06,291
I'd like to see her smiling again.
1369
00:58:06,375 --> 00:58:08,625
Sure does look good on you.
1370
00:58:09,917 --> 00:58:11,542
Oh!
1371
00:58:16,709 --> 00:58:18,750
"A quilt is bits and pieces,
1372
00:58:18,834 --> 00:58:20,250
joy and sorrow,
1373
00:58:20,333 --> 00:58:22,500
stitched with loving care."
1374
00:58:22,583 --> 00:58:24,667
I like mine to tell a story.
1375
00:58:24,750 --> 00:58:26,250
And what story are we telling here?
1376
00:58:26,333 --> 00:58:28,208
A story of love.
1377
00:58:28,291 --> 00:58:31,917
Well, Christmas was always
our happiest time,
1378
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:33,583
so I'll add that in,
1379
00:58:33,667 --> 00:58:37,125
while honoring those no longer with us.
1380
00:58:38,208 --> 00:58:39,458
This is
1381
00:58:39,542 --> 00:58:42,959
a piece of my daughter Kelly's
baby blanket.
1382
00:58:45,041 --> 00:58:49,375
This is from a pair
of Jonathan's footie pajamas.
1383
00:58:50,959 --> 00:58:52,709
Oh, a scarf I wore,
1384
00:58:52,792 --> 00:58:54,917
when I rode in Robert's Fairlane.
1385
00:58:56,458 --> 00:58:59,709
Oh, this is his favorite flannel shirt.
1386
00:58:59,792 --> 00:59:01,625
Mm.
1387
00:59:01,709 --> 00:59:03,959
It still smells like him.
1388
00:59:04,041 --> 00:59:06,917
I think it's beautiful--
the quilt and the sentiment.
1389
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:10,291
And I'll add in...
1390
00:59:10,375 --> 00:59:13,333
this holiday embroidery.
1391
00:59:13,417 --> 00:59:15,417
I mean, um...
1392
00:59:15,500 --> 00:59:16,834
you'll be going back at some point,
1393
00:59:16,917 --> 00:59:19,834
to wherever it is you came from.
1394
00:59:19,917 --> 00:59:21,709
Where did you say that was from?
1395
00:59:21,792 --> 00:59:24,333
Cleveland. And I suppose you're not wrong.
1396
00:59:24,417 --> 00:59:27,333
Then we'll always remember you
with this quilt.
1397
00:59:27,417 --> 00:59:28,667
Mrs. Merkel,
1398
00:59:28,750 --> 00:59:31,417
who came into our lives one Christmas
1399
00:59:31,500 --> 00:59:34,750
and helped us find
our way back to ourselves.
1400
00:59:34,834 --> 00:59:37,750
And I believe Laurel
is on the cusp of this also.
1401
00:59:37,834 --> 00:59:40,625
It's always darkest before the dawn.
1402
00:59:47,125 --> 00:59:48,333
Hi.
1403
00:59:48,417 --> 00:59:50,500
Did you want to see something in the case?
1404
00:59:50,583 --> 00:59:52,959
Actually, I'd like to buy
those earrings right there,
1405
00:59:53,041 --> 00:59:54,917
but is Mercy around?
She helped me the other day.
1406
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:56,542
I'd love to get her the commission.
1407
00:59:56,625 --> 00:59:58,875
I'm sorry. We don't have anyone
named "Mercy" working here.
1408
00:59:58,959 --> 01:00:00,417
Are you sure?
I was just here.
1409
01:00:00,500 --> 01:00:01,750
I'm the floor manager,
1410
01:00:01,834 --> 01:00:03,834
and I don't have anyone
by that name on my staff.
1411
01:00:03,917 --> 01:00:05,375
I could've sworn she said Mercy,
1412
01:00:05,458 --> 01:00:06,542
but maybe I got it wrong.
1413
01:00:06,625 --> 01:00:07,834
Is it Marcy?
1414
01:00:07,917 --> 01:00:10,458
Murray?
I don't know, Myrna?
1415
01:00:10,542 --> 01:00:11,500
No.
1416
01:00:11,583 --> 01:00:12,959
But whoever it was,
1417
01:00:13,041 --> 01:00:14,709
she clearly gave you great service,
1418
01:00:14,792 --> 01:00:18,041
and I love to hear that
about my employees.
1419
01:00:18,125 --> 01:00:19,959
Hmm.
1420
01:00:21,208 --> 01:00:22,375
♪ Dashing through the snow ♪
1421
01:00:22,458 --> 01:00:24,583
♪ In a one-horse open sleigh ♪
1422
01:00:24,667 --> 01:00:26,709
♪ O'er the fields we go ♪
1423
01:00:26,792 --> 01:00:28,834
♪ Laughing all the way
Ha, ha, ha! ♪
1424
01:00:28,917 --> 01:00:30,250
♪ Bells on bobtails ring ♪
1425
01:00:30,333 --> 01:00:32,625
♪ Making spirits bright ♪
1426
01:00:32,709 --> 01:00:34,375
♪ What fun it is to ride ♪
1427
01:00:34,458 --> 01:00:36,625
♪ And sing a sleighing song
Tonight ♪
1428
01:00:36,709 --> 01:00:39,000
♪ Oh! Jingle bells
Jingle bells ♪
1429
01:00:39,083 --> 01:00:40,917
♪ Jingle all the way ♪
1430
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:42,792
♪ Oh, what fun it is to ride ♪
1431
01:00:42,875 --> 01:00:46,250
♪ In a one-horse open sleigh ♪
1432
01:00:46,333 --> 01:00:47,375
Whoo!
1433
01:00:47,458 --> 01:00:49,083
Oh.
1434
01:00:50,375 --> 01:00:52,166
♪ ...Six geese a-laying ♪
1435
01:00:52,250 --> 01:00:54,542
♪ Five balls of string ♪
1436
01:00:56,125 --> 01:00:58,709
♪ Four calling birds
Three French hens ♪
1437
01:00:58,792 --> 01:01:00,291
♪ Two turtle doves ♪
1438
01:01:00,375 --> 01:01:04,417
♪ And a partridge
In a pear tree ♪
1439
01:01:07,166 --> 01:01:08,125
Bravo! Bravo!
1440
01:01:09,250 --> 01:01:11,750
Take a bow!
1441
01:01:11,834 --> 01:01:13,375
Thank you!
1442
01:01:13,458 --> 01:01:15,208
And that's our show!
1443
01:01:15,291 --> 01:01:16,875
Thank you so much for coming
1444
01:01:16,959 --> 01:01:18,542
and baking and supporting these guys
1445
01:01:18,625 --> 01:01:19,834
and all their hard work.
1446
01:01:19,917 --> 01:01:21,083
Thank you so much.
1447
01:01:21,166 --> 01:01:22,417
Hold up!
1448
01:01:22,500 --> 01:01:24,333
Uh, not so fast!
We have something for you--
1449
01:01:24,417 --> 01:01:25,750
- Aww!
- ...Mrs. McCullough.
1450
01:01:25,834 --> 01:01:28,291
A "thank you" for bringing back
the holiday show.
1451
01:01:28,375 --> 01:01:29,458
When did you do this?
1452
01:01:29,542 --> 01:01:30,709
You spent a lot of time
1453
01:01:30,792 --> 01:01:32,792
rehearsing with the other classes.
1454
01:01:32,875 --> 01:01:35,000
Oh! Thank you, guys.
I love it. I love it.
1455
01:01:35,083 --> 01:01:38,291
And I love all of you.
You did such a great job.
1456
01:01:41,667 --> 01:01:44,125
She was meant to be a parent, Will.
1457
01:01:44,208 --> 01:01:45,458
You don't have to tell me that.
1458
01:01:45,542 --> 01:01:46,792
Don't despair.
1459
01:01:46,875 --> 01:01:49,000
The child that's meant for you
will find you,
1460
01:01:49,083 --> 01:01:50,417
when you're meant to be together.
1461
01:01:51,750 --> 01:01:53,667
Well, very well, then.
1462
01:01:53,750 --> 01:01:55,750
Let's go congratulate her
and give her those earrings.
1463
01:01:55,834 --> 01:01:58,500
Oh.
1464
01:02:04,125 --> 01:02:05,625
Now, that's a neck pillow.
1465
01:02:08,417 --> 01:02:09,834
"I can't be held responsible
1466
01:02:09,917 --> 01:02:12,041
for what my face does when you talk."
1467
01:02:13,333 --> 01:02:15,083
I'm gonna walk around
the office like this.
1468
01:02:17,166 --> 01:02:18,333
All right. Who's next? Will?
1469
01:02:18,417 --> 01:02:20,041
Okay, here I go. Ready?
1470
01:02:21,291 --> 01:02:22,667
Yeah, hot. Hot.
That one. That one.
1471
01:02:22,750 --> 01:02:24,417
Ah-hah.
1472
01:02:27,333 --> 01:02:29,667
Cigars?
1473
01:02:29,750 --> 01:02:31,792
Tara didn't want to know
the gender in advance
1474
01:02:31,875 --> 01:02:33,959
when Tyler was born, so I bought both,
1475
01:02:34,041 --> 01:02:35,041
and this was the perfect opportunity
1476
01:02:35,125 --> 01:02:37,667
to get rid of it.
1477
01:02:37,750 --> 01:02:39,542
Hey, those might come in handy soon. Hmm?
1478
01:02:40,750 --> 01:02:42,333
You never know.
1479
01:02:51,667 --> 01:02:53,917
Hey. You all alone in here?
1480
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:55,875
Helen is napping.
Busy day.
1481
01:02:55,959 --> 01:02:57,750
We went shopping.
1482
01:02:57,834 --> 01:02:59,792
And that Zumba is no joke.
1483
01:02:59,875 --> 01:03:01,792
Every inch of my body is hurting.
1484
01:03:01,875 --> 01:03:03,750
Well, I appreciate you enduring
all that pain for her.
1485
01:03:03,834 --> 01:03:05,792
Thank you for today, Gloria.
1486
01:03:05,875 --> 01:03:06,667
Are you all right, Will?
1487
01:03:07,875 --> 01:03:09,709
You believe in signs, right?
1488
01:03:09,792 --> 01:03:11,583
Absolutely!
1489
01:03:11,667 --> 01:03:13,917
They're all around us,
if our eyes are open to them.
1490
01:03:19,792 --> 01:03:22,542
This is from the office
white elephant party today.
1491
01:03:22,625 --> 01:03:26,208
And then there was
this-this salesgirl I had...
1492
01:03:26,291 --> 01:03:28,041
I-I don't know.
1493
01:03:28,125 --> 01:03:30,667
I swear, it's like the universe
is taunting me.
1494
01:03:30,750 --> 01:03:32,917
I don't think the universe
is capable of that,
1495
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:36,083
but there can be messages
in our experiences.
1496
01:03:36,166 --> 01:03:39,542
All the messages I'm receiving
are reinforcing all that I want,
1497
01:03:39,625 --> 01:03:40,625
but can't have.
1498
01:03:40,709 --> 01:03:42,625
It just feels so unfair.
1499
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,125
You know, with Jonathan, we were a family.
1500
01:03:46,208 --> 01:03:48,375
There was so much joy in this house
1501
01:03:48,458 --> 01:03:51,542
and I am so ready
to bring that joy back in.
1502
01:03:51,625 --> 01:03:53,000
Does Laurel know how you feel?
1503
01:03:53,083 --> 01:03:54,917
I think I've been pretty vocal about it,
1504
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:58,208
and she's been pretty vocal
about her feelings.
1505
01:03:58,291 --> 01:03:59,458
Hey.
1506
01:03:59,542 --> 01:04:01,625
There's some people
caroling down our street
1507
01:04:01,709 --> 01:04:03,125
and they don't seem
to know any of the words,
1508
01:04:03,208 --> 01:04:06,250
I think we need to join them
and rescue them.
1509
01:04:07,583 --> 01:04:09,750
Very well, then.
I'll go get Helen.
1510
01:04:11,083 --> 01:04:13,250
All right,
I'll go get a jacket.
1511
01:04:13,333 --> 01:04:14,375
Yeah.
1512
01:04:20,291 --> 01:04:23,291
♪ O come let us adore Him ♪
1513
01:04:23,375 --> 01:04:26,750
♪ Christ the Lord ♪
1514
01:04:28,542 --> 01:04:30,291
Hey.
1515
01:04:30,375 --> 01:04:31,375
Are you okay?
1516
01:04:31,458 --> 01:04:33,542
Yeah. Yeah, I'm good, Will.
1517
01:04:34,917 --> 01:04:36,250
Okay.
1518
01:04:36,333 --> 01:04:37,709
How about the next one
is a little bit more upbeat?
1519
01:04:37,792 --> 01:04:40,458
Uh, "Joy to the World!"
1520
01:04:40,542 --> 01:04:41,792
- Joy is so infectious.
- ♪ Joy to the world... ♪
1521
01:04:41,875 --> 01:04:44,000
That's why it's my preferred emotion.
1522
01:04:44,083 --> 01:04:45,291
♪ The Lord is come ♪
1523
01:04:45,375 --> 01:04:48,959
♪ Let Earth receive her King ♪
1524
01:04:50,208 --> 01:04:52,166
♪ Let ev'ry heart ♪
1525
01:04:52,250 --> 01:04:55,125
♪ Prepare Him room ♪
1526
01:04:55,208 --> 01:04:56,083
Laurel!
1527
01:04:56,166 --> 01:04:57,458
Hi!
1528
01:04:57,542 --> 01:04:59,250
Getting something stronger
than you have at home?
1529
01:04:59,333 --> 01:05:00,959
Yeah, I've got
some last-minute shopping to do,
1530
01:05:01,041 --> 01:05:03,166
so I figured
I'd caffeinate myself first.
1531
01:05:03,250 --> 01:05:04,417
I was just picking up
1532
01:05:04,500 --> 01:05:05,959
some treats for your grandmother
this morning.
1533
01:05:06,041 --> 01:05:07,375
That's nice of you.
1534
01:05:07,458 --> 01:05:09,500
Thank you for all that
you're doing for her, really.
1535
01:05:09,583 --> 01:05:10,583
It's my pleasure.
1536
01:05:10,667 --> 01:05:11,875
In service to others,
1537
01:05:11,959 --> 01:05:13,792
we're always personally rewarded.
1538
01:05:15,959 --> 01:05:17,583
Come and sit with me for a moment.
1539
01:05:18,750 --> 01:05:20,875
Okay. Sure.
1540
01:05:25,625 --> 01:05:27,500
Your seemed to have a very heavy heart
1541
01:05:27,583 --> 01:05:29,083
the other night during caroling.
1542
01:05:29,166 --> 01:05:30,750
Oh, I'm fine.
I'm fine.
1543
01:05:30,834 --> 01:05:32,750
As long as Nana's good,
I'm good.
1544
01:05:36,750 --> 01:05:38,250
I overheard you and Will talking
1545
01:05:38,333 --> 01:05:39,500
before we went outside that night.
1546
01:05:40,959 --> 01:05:42,333
You heard him, Gloria.
1547
01:05:42,417 --> 01:05:44,291
I can't give him what he wants
1548
01:05:44,375 --> 01:05:46,125
and I wonder if I'm wasting his life.
1549
01:05:46,208 --> 01:05:47,625
You don't really believe that?
1550
01:05:47,709 --> 01:05:51,375
We tried so hard, Gloria, for years,
1551
01:05:51,458 --> 01:05:53,291
and I can't help
1552
01:05:53,375 --> 01:05:54,750
but feel like there's
something wrong with me,
1553
01:05:54,834 --> 01:05:57,125
like somehow I failed him.
1554
01:05:57,208 --> 01:05:59,083
None of this is your fault.
1555
01:05:59,166 --> 01:06:00,959
You say to focus on the joy, right?
1556
01:06:01,041 --> 01:06:03,250
Look to the future.
See the good.
1557
01:06:03,333 --> 01:06:04,291
I want to do that.
1558
01:06:04,375 --> 01:06:05,625
I just don't know how to do that.
1559
01:06:05,709 --> 01:06:07,417
How do you do that?
1560
01:06:07,500 --> 01:06:11,083
Well, I've only been around
for a week or so,
1561
01:06:11,166 --> 01:06:12,834
but it doesn't take long to see
1562
01:06:12,917 --> 01:06:14,959
that you take on everyone's burdens--
1563
01:06:15,041 --> 01:06:17,750
Helen's, Will's, your own.
1564
01:06:17,834 --> 01:06:19,834
You don't have to shoulder
the responsibility
1565
01:06:19,917 --> 01:06:21,959
of everything that goes wrong.
1566
01:06:22,041 --> 01:06:24,875
That's what family is all about--
1567
01:06:24,959 --> 01:06:26,458
weathering the storm together.
1568
01:06:27,917 --> 01:06:30,208
It seems that Will and Helen
1569
01:06:30,291 --> 01:06:33,166
may be moving into the sunshine.
1570
01:06:33,250 --> 01:06:36,375
Perhaps you could consider
joining them there.
1571
01:06:40,083 --> 01:06:44,959
I think I have mastered it,
and I'll show it to Art today.
1572
01:06:49,417 --> 01:06:51,375
Helen, you've mastered everything,
1573
01:06:51,458 --> 01:06:54,000
and I can't continue to take your money.
1574
01:06:54,083 --> 01:06:55,542
You don't need me.
1575
01:06:55,625 --> 01:06:57,166
You're taking care of yourself.
1576
01:06:57,250 --> 01:06:58,000
Your wrist is healing.
1577
01:06:58,083 --> 01:06:59,709
You've got your friends.
1578
01:06:59,792 --> 01:07:01,250
So, I'll be leaving after Christmas
1579
01:07:01,333 --> 01:07:02,500
for a new assignment.
1580
01:07:02,583 --> 01:07:04,291
But what about Laurel?
1581
01:07:04,375 --> 01:07:06,750
I think she's still a work in progress.
1582
01:07:06,834 --> 01:07:09,250
I suspect she's on the verge
of a major breakthrough.
1583
01:07:11,792 --> 01:07:13,333
Well... you would know.
1584
01:07:13,417 --> 01:07:15,750
What does that mean?
1585
01:07:19,166 --> 01:07:20,250
Hello?
1586
01:07:20,333 --> 01:07:23,250
Laurel.
Hi. It's Nancy Swindoll.
1587
01:07:23,333 --> 01:07:24,291
Hi. Hi. Nancy.
1588
01:07:24,375 --> 01:07:25,875
How are you?
1589
01:07:25,959 --> 01:07:27,417
Is everything okay with Jonathan?
1590
01:07:27,500 --> 01:07:28,542
Yeah!
1591
01:07:28,625 --> 01:07:31,333
Oh, yeah, um, I'm not actually calling
1592
01:07:31,417 --> 01:07:32,959
about Jonathan.
1593
01:07:33,041 --> 01:07:34,500
Look, I'm sorry to bother you,
1594
01:07:34,583 --> 01:07:36,458
I know it's difficult for you
to talk when you're at work,
1595
01:07:36,542 --> 01:07:38,959
but I tried Will and I got his voicemail.
1596
01:07:39,041 --> 01:07:41,166
No, no, no.
I'm actually off today.
1597
01:07:41,250 --> 01:07:42,500
What's going on?
1598
01:07:42,583 --> 01:07:44,083
There's a newborn
1599
01:07:44,166 --> 01:07:46,250
at Seattle General
that's ready to be placed.
1600
01:07:46,333 --> 01:07:47,750
You'd need to pick him up tonight.
1601
01:07:49,709 --> 01:07:50,917
I'm sorry, Nancy.
1602
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:52,709
There must be some sort of mistake.
1603
01:07:52,792 --> 01:07:54,500
We-We...
We aren't fostering again.
1604
01:07:54,583 --> 01:07:56,166
Oh.
1605
01:07:56,250 --> 01:07:59,000
Oh, wow.
I'm so sorry, Laurel.
1606
01:07:59,083 --> 01:08:02,542
When I spoke to Will last week, he...
1607
01:08:02,625 --> 01:08:03,750
Um...
1608
01:08:03,834 --> 01:08:06,250
You know what? My bad.
1609
01:08:06,333 --> 01:08:08,750
I am so sorry for any misunderstanding
1610
01:08:08,834 --> 01:08:10,834
and we will just move on
to the next family.
1611
01:08:10,917 --> 01:08:13,375
Yeah. Thanks, Nancy.
1612
01:08:13,458 --> 01:08:14,500
Sorry to waste your time.
1613
01:08:14,583 --> 01:08:15,458
Take care.
1614
01:08:31,458 --> 01:08:32,834
Hey.
1615
01:08:34,291 --> 01:08:35,125
You heard from Nancy?
1616
01:08:36,417 --> 01:08:38,208
She left me a voicemail, too.
1617
01:08:38,291 --> 01:08:39,709
Are you angry?
1618
01:08:41,291 --> 01:08:43,125
I don't know how I feel.
1619
01:08:43,208 --> 01:08:45,333
It's a baby, Laurel.
1620
01:08:45,417 --> 01:08:48,166
We have so much love to give that child.
1621
01:08:49,709 --> 01:08:53,417
I cannot believe that you would
put me in that position,
1622
01:08:53,500 --> 01:08:56,083
to make me choose on the spot like that?
1623
01:08:56,166 --> 01:08:57,500
Why wouldn't you tell me?
1624
01:08:57,583 --> 01:08:59,542
I wanted to,
1625
01:08:59,625 --> 01:09:01,834
but very time I brought it up,
you just shut me down.
1626
01:09:01,917 --> 01:09:04,583
It's like I don't get
to have a say in our life.
1627
01:09:04,667 --> 01:09:06,125
I know.
1628
01:09:06,208 --> 01:09:07,834
And that's not fair to you at all.
1629
01:09:09,250 --> 01:09:11,500
But I can't go through
that kind of loss again.
1630
01:09:11,583 --> 01:09:12,959
I just can't do it.
1631
01:09:14,625 --> 01:09:17,083
I feel like I lose everyone that I love.
1632
01:09:17,166 --> 01:09:19,250
Babe, you still have me.
1633
01:09:19,333 --> 01:09:21,041
Always. I'm not going anywhere.
1634
01:09:26,667 --> 01:09:28,667
I know how much you want to be a father,
1635
01:09:28,750 --> 01:09:30,959
and I'm so sorry
that I can't give that to you.
1636
01:09:31,041 --> 01:09:32,917
I'm so...
1637
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:35,125
very sorry.
1638
01:09:35,208 --> 01:09:36,250
Hey. That isn't on you.
1639
01:09:36,333 --> 01:09:37,667
Maybe not,
1640
01:09:37,750 --> 01:09:39,333
but the last thing
I would want to do
1641
01:09:39,417 --> 01:09:40,875
is hold you back from having the family
1642
01:09:40,959 --> 01:09:42,333
that you so desperately want.
1643
01:09:42,417 --> 01:09:45,000
You are my family, Laurel.
1644
01:09:45,083 --> 01:09:46,875
But that's not enough.
1645
01:09:46,959 --> 01:09:48,792
And you should find someone
1646
01:09:48,875 --> 01:09:51,375
that can give you everything
that you deserve.
1647
01:09:51,458 --> 01:09:53,625
What are you saying?
1648
01:09:55,166 --> 01:09:56,458
I just think
1649
01:09:56,542 --> 01:09:58,583
that we've reached a fork in the road,
1650
01:09:58,667 --> 01:10:01,750
where you go one way and I go another.
1651
01:10:07,625 --> 01:10:09,625
No, you... you don't get
to make that decision
1652
01:10:09,709 --> 01:10:11,166
for me, for us.
1653
01:10:11,250 --> 01:10:13,041
It has to be this way, Will,
1654
01:10:13,125 --> 01:10:15,417
because I can't feel like this anymore.
1655
01:10:17,542 --> 01:10:18,875
Ahem.
1656
01:10:18,959 --> 01:10:21,959
I'm gonna give you some space...
1657
01:10:22,041 --> 01:10:24,125
but this isn't over.
1658
01:10:34,291 --> 01:10:36,125
I love you, Will.
1659
01:10:36,208 --> 01:10:38,250
I hope you know that.
1660
01:10:38,333 --> 01:10:41,125
And I love you.
1661
01:10:41,208 --> 01:10:43,125
Forever.
1662
01:10:43,208 --> 01:10:45,041
You're the only one for me, Laurel.
1663
01:11:00,750 --> 01:11:02,125
I'm gonna give her some time,
1664
01:11:02,208 --> 01:11:04,041
but I'm not giving up on her.
1665
01:11:04,125 --> 01:11:05,792
Love you.
1666
01:11:05,875 --> 01:11:07,333
Love you.
1667
01:11:13,792 --> 01:11:15,750
I'll see you soon.
1668
01:11:33,375 --> 01:11:35,000
Laurel?
1669
01:11:35,083 --> 01:11:35,875
Are you okay?
1670
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:37,750
I'm fine.
1671
01:11:41,375 --> 01:11:42,792
We can make some tea.
1672
01:11:44,041 --> 01:11:47,458
Gloria is going to stay and help me
1673
01:11:47,542 --> 01:11:49,250
with prep for Christmas Eve dinner.
1674
01:11:49,333 --> 01:11:51,125
Maybe in a little.
1675
01:11:52,250 --> 01:11:54,125
Well...
1676
01:11:54,208 --> 01:11:56,083
you know what I always say--
1677
01:11:56,166 --> 01:11:58,458
there is no problem that can't be solved
1678
01:11:58,542 --> 01:12:00,583
over a cup of hot tea.
1679
01:12:00,667 --> 01:12:03,625
I think that tea might be out
of its league this time, Nana.
1680
01:12:08,709 --> 01:12:10,792
We'll be right downstairs.
1681
01:12:10,875 --> 01:12:12,792
Okay.
1682
01:12:19,959 --> 01:12:21,375
Sorry about the couch,
1683
01:12:21,458 --> 01:12:22,875
but Britta can't sleep in the baby's room
1684
01:12:22,959 --> 01:12:24,709
or we'd all be up all night.
1685
01:12:24,792 --> 01:12:26,208
Hey, no, the couch is fine.
1686
01:12:26,291 --> 01:12:27,959
I really appreciate
you letting me crash, man.
1687
01:12:28,041 --> 01:12:29,834
Mi couch-a es su couch-a.
1688
01:12:29,917 --> 01:12:30,959
Stay as long as you want, buddy.
1689
01:12:31,041 --> 01:12:33,041
Thank you, Neil.
1690
01:12:33,125 --> 01:12:36,250
Hey, you know, the holidays...
1691
01:12:36,333 --> 01:12:37,625
they have a way of kicking everything up--
1692
01:12:37,709 --> 01:12:38,709
good and bad.
1693
01:12:38,792 --> 01:12:40,125
This is gonna blow over.
1694
01:12:40,208 --> 01:12:42,250
Yeah. Yeah, you're right.
1695
01:12:42,333 --> 01:12:43,709
You know what?
1696
01:12:43,792 --> 01:12:45,125
I'm gonna get you
some of the good pillows.
1697
01:12:45,208 --> 01:12:47,125
Thanks.
1698
01:12:57,875 --> 01:12:59,500
Hi.
1699
01:12:59,583 --> 01:13:02,709
Mommy says that your wife is mad at you,
1700
01:13:02,792 --> 01:13:04,166
that's why you're sleeping over.
1701
01:13:04,250 --> 01:13:06,792
Something like that, yeah.
1702
01:13:06,875 --> 01:13:08,208
Do you want to have a tea party?
1703
01:13:08,291 --> 01:13:10,917
I would love to have a tea party.
1704
01:13:12,542 --> 01:13:14,500
Oh...
1705
01:13:14,583 --> 01:13:15,625
There you go.
1706
01:13:15,709 --> 01:13:17,250
Mommy says
1707
01:13:17,333 --> 01:13:19,709
that things always seem worse at night,
1708
01:13:19,792 --> 01:13:21,667
but then the sun comes up.
1709
01:13:21,750 --> 01:13:24,667
And a cup of hot tea
makes everything better, too.
1710
01:13:24,750 --> 01:13:25,625
You know what, Britta?
1711
01:13:25,709 --> 01:13:26,917
I think you're right about that.
1712
01:13:28,166 --> 01:13:30,041
Thank you.
1713
01:13:31,834 --> 01:13:34,667
Mm! Oh, my goodness, that's good stuff.
1714
01:13:34,750 --> 01:13:35,917
I know.
1715
01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:37,792
Cheers.
1716
01:13:43,875 --> 01:13:46,291
Hi.
1717
01:13:47,625 --> 01:13:50,041
Oh, I'm so glad you came down.
1718
01:13:50,125 --> 01:13:52,000
Are you feeling better?
1719
01:13:52,083 --> 01:13:54,000
Mm-mm.
1720
01:13:55,333 --> 01:13:59,250
I just wish I understood
why it has to be this way.
1721
01:13:59,333 --> 01:14:01,166
What way is that?
1722
01:14:01,250 --> 01:14:04,166
Why do bad things have to happen at all?
1723
01:14:04,250 --> 01:14:06,000
Why does a child lose their mother
1724
01:14:06,083 --> 01:14:07,542
at six years old?
1725
01:14:07,625 --> 01:14:10,750
Why does a mother lose
their child, like you did?
1726
01:14:12,250 --> 01:14:15,166
Why were we given Jonathan,
only to have him taken away?
1727
01:14:16,375 --> 01:14:19,041
Maybe Jonathan wasn't given to you
1728
01:14:19,125 --> 01:14:21,375
as much as you were given to Jonathan.
1729
01:14:21,458 --> 01:14:22,583
He's with his mother now.
1730
01:14:22,667 --> 01:14:23,875
He's okay,
1731
01:14:23,959 --> 01:14:26,041
and you get to be okay, too, Laurel.
1732
01:14:26,125 --> 01:14:28,500
But if he's taking up
all the space in your heart,
1733
01:14:28,583 --> 01:14:30,333
another child can't.
1734
01:14:30,417 --> 01:14:33,542
It's okay to love him and let go of him.
1735
01:14:34,750 --> 01:14:37,500
I realized that the best way
1736
01:14:37,583 --> 01:14:39,917
to honor Pop's memory
1737
01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:41,667
is to keep going,
1738
01:14:41,750 --> 01:14:45,375
to live a full and happy life for him.
1739
01:14:47,083 --> 01:14:48,417
After Mercy passed, someone asked me,
1740
01:14:48,500 --> 01:14:50,291
if you would've known
1741
01:14:50,375 --> 01:14:53,333
that you only would have
your daughter for 19 years...
1742
01:14:53,417 --> 01:14:55,250
...Would you do it all over again?
1743
01:14:55,333 --> 01:14:58,083
In a heartbeat.
1744
01:14:58,166 --> 01:14:59,917
Me too. Yeah.
1745
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,166
We don't always get to understand the why.
1746
01:15:02,250 --> 01:15:04,917
It's useless to dwell.
1747
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:07,792
But, Laurel, your miracles are out there--
1748
01:15:07,875 --> 01:15:09,667
for you and Will both,
1749
01:15:09,750 --> 01:15:12,250
in the form of an open door,
1750
01:15:12,333 --> 01:15:14,500
waiting for you to walk through it.
1751
01:15:14,583 --> 01:15:17,333
Do miracles happen because we believe,
1752
01:15:17,417 --> 01:15:19,458
or do we believe because miracles happen?
1753
01:15:21,458 --> 01:15:23,125
Maybe a little bit of both.
1754
01:15:26,083 --> 01:15:27,208
Thank you.
1755
01:15:28,875 --> 01:15:29,917
Oh.
1756
01:16:14,792 --> 01:16:18,375
I'm so lucky
I got to be your mommy...
1757
01:16:35,291 --> 01:16:36,792
Sugar?
1758
01:16:36,875 --> 01:16:39,291
One can never have too much sugar.
1759
01:16:39,375 --> 01:16:41,542
Too true, kind sir. Too true.
1760
01:16:44,750 --> 01:16:45,959
Excuse me?
1761
01:16:48,041 --> 01:16:50,834
Is this a private tea party
or can anyone join?
1762
01:16:52,458 --> 01:16:54,166
All are welcome.
1763
01:16:54,250 --> 01:16:56,083
Please. Come join us.
1764
01:16:56,166 --> 01:16:58,458
Hi, Britta.
1765
01:16:58,542 --> 01:17:00,834
This is our third tea party in 12 hours.
1766
01:17:00,917 --> 01:17:02,500
I am completely wired.
1767
01:17:02,583 --> 01:17:03,667
Sweetie, why don't you
1768
01:17:03,750 --> 01:17:04,875
come help your mom and I in the kitchen?
1769
01:17:07,625 --> 01:17:09,208
Make sure you say you're sorry.
1770
01:17:09,291 --> 01:17:11,667
That's what Daddy does.
1771
01:17:15,959 --> 01:17:17,041
Ahem.
1772
01:17:18,250 --> 01:17:20,333
You look very nice.
1773
01:17:20,417 --> 01:17:21,375
Thank you.
1774
01:17:24,125 --> 01:17:26,959
I'm so sorry, Will.
1775
01:17:27,041 --> 01:17:28,500
No, I'm sorry, Laurel.
1776
01:17:28,583 --> 01:17:30,583
You have nothing to apologize for.
1777
01:17:30,667 --> 01:17:32,667
I do, actually.
1778
01:17:32,750 --> 01:17:35,583
I was dwelling on the pain,
1779
01:17:35,667 --> 01:17:37,583
and I shouldn't have asked you
to live in that place with me.
1780
01:17:37,667 --> 01:17:39,375
I only wanted to show you
1781
01:17:39,458 --> 01:17:41,250
that there were possibilities
out there for us.
1782
01:17:41,333 --> 01:17:42,375
I know.
1783
01:17:42,458 --> 01:17:44,500
And I love you so much for that.
1784
01:17:44,583 --> 01:17:47,166
And for your patience with me
1785
01:17:47,250 --> 01:17:51,083
and for never giving up on me.
1786
01:17:51,166 --> 01:17:52,375
Never.
1787
01:17:53,834 --> 01:17:55,709
I'm ready to see the joy again.
1788
01:17:57,667 --> 01:17:59,917
It's out there for us, Laurel.
1789
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:01,166
I hope so.
1790
01:18:02,625 --> 01:18:04,083
Will you come to candlelight mass
1791
01:18:04,166 --> 01:18:05,083
with me tonight?
1792
01:18:05,166 --> 01:18:06,542
Of course.
1793
01:18:07,667 --> 01:18:08,750
Hey, look.
1794
01:18:08,834 --> 01:18:10,625
No matter what our future holds,
1795
01:18:10,709 --> 01:18:12,875
it's you and me.
1796
01:18:12,959 --> 01:18:15,792
Even if it's just you and me forever...
1797
01:18:15,875 --> 01:18:17,500
that's okay.
1798
01:18:17,583 --> 01:18:19,417
You are my family, Laurel.
1799
01:18:32,041 --> 01:18:34,291
Let's go home.
1800
01:18:34,375 --> 01:18:35,625
Yeah.
1801
01:18:35,709 --> 01:18:37,125
My tea's cold anyway.
1802
01:18:42,083 --> 01:18:43,000
Hi!
1803
01:18:43,083 --> 01:18:44,667
Merry Christmas, Mrs. M.
1804
01:18:44,750 --> 01:18:46,375
Merry Christmas, Tasha.
1805
01:18:48,417 --> 01:18:50,041
Go on inside with
your brothers and sisters
1806
01:18:50,125 --> 01:18:51,291
and get us some seats.
1807
01:18:54,041 --> 01:18:55,125
Oh...
1808
01:18:56,458 --> 01:18:57,500
I know those two!
1809
01:18:57,583 --> 01:18:59,458
They were in my class once upon a time.
1810
01:18:59,542 --> 01:19:01,500
I didn't realize
you had so many other children.
1811
01:19:01,583 --> 01:19:03,208
Yeah!
1812
01:19:03,291 --> 01:19:04,667
Those two are our latest fosters.
1813
01:19:04,750 --> 01:19:06,083
They've only been with us
a couple of months.
1814
01:19:06,166 --> 01:19:08,250
They're all great kids.
1815
01:19:08,333 --> 01:19:10,000
They just need a chance, you know?
1816
01:19:10,083 --> 01:19:12,125
Look how Tasha's thriving!
1817
01:19:12,208 --> 01:19:13,500
Especially being in your class.
1818
01:19:13,583 --> 01:19:14,917
Tasha was in foster care?
1819
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:16,625
She came to us when she was four,
1820
01:19:16,709 --> 01:19:18,583
and the adoption just went through in May.
1821
01:19:18,667 --> 01:19:21,333
Wow. Congratulations.
1822
01:19:21,417 --> 01:19:24,041
I-I had no idea.
1823
01:19:24,125 --> 01:19:26,083
Um...
1824
01:19:26,166 --> 01:19:29,959
We were foster parents a while back, yeah,
1825
01:19:30,041 --> 01:19:32,000
It's so rewarding, isn't it?
1826
01:19:32,083 --> 01:19:33,917
I mean, the boys eat everything in sight
1827
01:19:34,000 --> 01:19:36,583
and the grocery bills are astronomical.
1828
01:19:36,667 --> 01:19:38,917
If the two of you ever decide
to take in an older one,
1829
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:41,166
we have hand-me-downs in every size.
1830
01:19:42,458 --> 01:19:44,041
Well, we should probably head inside.
1831
01:19:44,125 --> 01:19:45,041
- Yeah.
- Get a seat?
1832
01:19:45,125 --> 01:19:46,000
- Yeah.
- Okay.
1833
01:19:46,083 --> 01:19:47,083
Merry Christmas.
1834
01:19:47,166 --> 01:19:49,041
- Merry Christmas.
- Merry Christmas.
1835
01:19:50,166 --> 01:19:51,625
Do you feel it?
1836
01:19:51,709 --> 01:19:53,083
The wheels are in motion.
1837
01:19:54,834 --> 01:19:57,834
♪ Hark
The herald angels sing ♪
1838
01:19:57,917 --> 01:20:02,291
♪ Glory to the newborn King ♪
1839
01:20:02,375 --> 01:20:04,041
♪ Peace on Earth ♪
1840
01:20:04,125 --> 01:20:06,709
♪ And mercy mild ♪
1841
01:20:06,792 --> 01:20:08,333
- Mercy!
- ♪ God and sinners ♪
1842
01:20:08,417 --> 01:20:10,875
♪ Reconciled... ♪
1843
01:20:10,959 --> 01:20:13,166
So...
1844
01:20:13,250 --> 01:20:16,333
I have a thought I want
to run by you after the service.
1845
01:20:17,959 --> 01:20:19,500
I'm all ears.
1846
01:20:19,583 --> 01:20:23,792
♪ With angelic hosts
Proclaim ♪
1847
01:20:23,875 --> 01:20:28,542
♪ Christ is born in Bethlehem ♪
1848
01:20:28,625 --> 01:20:32,375
♪ Hark the herald angels sing ♪
1849
01:20:32,458 --> 01:20:36,875
♪ Glory to the newborn King ♪
1850
01:20:42,709 --> 01:20:44,000
One more gift, before I go,
1851
01:20:44,083 --> 01:20:45,875
for the family...
1852
01:20:45,959 --> 01:20:47,417
from me and Helen.
1853
01:20:50,250 --> 01:20:52,166
Oh!
1854
01:20:56,333 --> 01:20:58,291
- Oh, it's beautiful!
- Oh, my gosh.
1855
01:20:58,375 --> 01:20:59,625
You made that?
1856
01:20:59,709 --> 01:21:00,875
So you'll never forget me.
1857
01:21:00,959 --> 01:21:03,000
And those who've touched your lives.
1858
01:21:03,083 --> 01:21:06,333
We could never forget you, "Mrs. Miracle".
1859
01:21:06,417 --> 01:21:07,542
No, definitely not.
1860
01:21:07,625 --> 01:21:08,917
Oh.
1861
01:21:10,041 --> 01:21:12,083
Honey, look.
1862
01:21:12,166 --> 01:21:13,667
Already?
1863
01:21:13,750 --> 01:21:16,166
Hi, Nancy.
I have Laurel here with me.
1864
01:21:16,250 --> 01:21:18,834
Hi. I got your message last night
1865
01:21:18,917 --> 01:21:20,166
and there is a six-year-old girl
1866
01:21:20,250 --> 01:21:21,500
that needs placement.
1867
01:21:24,333 --> 01:21:25,750
She just lost her mother.
1868
01:21:25,834 --> 01:21:27,375
That's how old I was when I...
1869
01:21:27,458 --> 01:21:29,917
She is adorable and so sweet.
1870
01:21:30,000 --> 01:21:30,959
Would you like to meet her?
1871
01:21:34,166 --> 01:21:37,375
Um, I don't think
we need to meet her, Nancy.
1872
01:21:37,458 --> 01:21:38,834
No.
1873
01:21:38,917 --> 01:21:40,834
But we do need to buy her a bed,
'cause we only
1874
01:21:40,917 --> 01:21:42,458
have a crib.
1875
01:21:42,542 --> 01:21:44,458
I hope something's open on Christmas!
1876
01:21:44,542 --> 01:21:46,291
That is wonderful.
Her name is Kelly.
1877
01:21:47,250 --> 01:21:48,375
Kelly!
1878
01:21:48,458 --> 01:21:50,125
I think she'll fit right in here.
1879
01:21:50,208 --> 01:21:52,333
I think so, too.
1880
01:21:52,417 --> 01:21:53,959
Happy holidays.
1881
01:22:12,500 --> 01:22:14,709
Mom! Dad! Santa came!
1882
01:22:14,792 --> 01:22:16,417
- He did?
- He did!
1883
01:22:16,500 --> 01:22:19,625
Well, that must mean you were
a very good girl this year.
1884
01:22:19,709 --> 01:22:21,375
Aw! Let's go wake up your brother.
1885
01:22:21,458 --> 01:22:22,959
- Yeah.
- Let's go get him.
1886
01:22:23,041 --> 01:22:24,208
I'm gonna come get you!
1887
01:22:24,291 --> 01:22:26,166
Are you excited?
1888
01:22:26,250 --> 01:22:28,500
Ee-ee!
1889
01:22:28,583 --> 01:22:31,291
Hello, baby.
1890
01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:43,166
Look at all these presents
for Kelly and Bobby.
1891
01:22:43,250 --> 01:22:44,875
Let's open them!
1892
01:22:44,959 --> 01:22:46,000
You know what?
1893
01:22:46,083 --> 01:22:46,875
I don't think that's such a good idea.
1894
01:22:46,959 --> 01:22:48,041
Oh, you're mean.
1895
01:22:48,125 --> 01:22:49,417
Yes! Yes! Yes!
1896
01:22:49,500 --> 01:22:50,709
- Please?
- Okay...
1897
01:22:50,792 --> 01:22:52,917
What is all this ruckus?
1898
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:54,875
Nana! Santa came!
1899
01:22:54,959 --> 01:22:57,250
- No!
- Yes!
1900
01:22:57,333 --> 01:22:59,375
Well, I hope there's something
in that pile for me.
1901
01:22:59,458 --> 01:23:01,083
There's something for everyone!
1902
01:23:01,166 --> 01:23:02,208
Oh!
1903
01:23:02,291 --> 01:23:03,375
Look at Nana.
1904
01:23:03,458 --> 01:23:04,667
Why don't you go grab something, Kelly?
1905
01:23:04,750 --> 01:23:05,875
What do you think is a good-looking one?
1906
01:23:05,959 --> 01:23:07,625
- Mm-mm-mm!
- Merry Christmas!
1907
01:23:07,709 --> 01:23:09,000
Let's find the biggest one.
1908
01:23:09,083 --> 01:23:10,709
You have to guess what it is.
1909
01:23:10,792 --> 01:23:13,542
I'm gonna guess that one.
1910
01:23:20,875 --> 01:23:22,083
Good morning
1911
01:23:22,166 --> 01:23:23,291
I'm Gloria Merkel.
1912
01:23:23,375 --> 01:23:24,917
Caring Heart Angels sent me.
1913
01:23:25,041 --> 01:23:26,291
I made cookies.
1914
01:23:26,375 --> 01:23:27,333
Ooh!