Christmas story

https://the-lilypad.com/store/White-As-Snow-complete-kit-new.html
This year you volunteered to do the solo in the choir for Christmas, it influenced every possible plan for going away, but we thought it was such a bold step for you, usually so timid, that we just went with it. So instead of going to England we stayed in Switzerland & had Christmas at home. Unlike back in UK where we'd go to Christmas Carol service in the church at some such reasonable time, here the service was a midnight mass at Christmas, proper. & worse than that, a village of Carabbia didn't have a choir, so they asked our choir to perform at their church, too, so you had to perform during both masses, one at 10 p.m., the other at midnight. You had your solo timed so that it started a minute or so before the bells chimed, and the figurine of baby Jesus was carried out of the church and put into the manger in the yard while your voice rang in its pure exultation. There was hardly a dry eye in the whole church, and everybody came to tell you how much your song touched them after the mass. I do not know how you even managed to stay awake all the time, but you did, & you performed so beautifully, too. I am so lucky to be your mother, so proud to call you mine.