Elm Creek Quilts [08] The Christmas Quilt - Plot & Excerpts
As the December days grew colder and the nights longer, the bygone years seemed to encroach ever more insistently into the present—vexing Sylvia day and night with their persistence. She imagined spirits of Christmases past crowding the halls, arguing over favorite chairs by the fire, looking about Elm Creek Manor, and shaking their heads in dismay over how she had let the place go. She would earn a small fortune if she could charge them rent, but regrettably, the spirits offered only longing whispers and mournful sighs. Nothing would appease them save an old-fashioned Bergstrom family Christmas, with all the trappings of the holiday, every beloved tradition fulfilled to the letter. If Sylvia addressed the spirits—which she would not do, she was seventy-six but not quite ready to speak aloud to an empty room, thank you very much—she would warn them that they were bound to be disappointed. As much as Sylvia missed the Christmas joys of her youth, the Bergstroms were gone, every last one of them save Sylvia herself, and their traditions had passed on with them.
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