Saturday Snippet: You Sit, Honored Mother-in-Law

 

 

The following snippet is taken from my upcoming book, 

Gift of Restitution: A Story for Christmas 

Gold Mountain, Book 4 

 

          Odette grabbed a folded rag and lifted the lid of the iron pot. “Our supper is ready.”

          Joy set her sewing project in her workbasket. “You sit, honored mother-in-law. I serve you supper.”

          As he rose to his feet, Luke smiled and shook his head. He placed his hand under Joy’s elbow to help her to stand. He knew what was coming, for the two women played out the same scene almost nightly.

          Odette laughed and shook her head. “I’m not the one who is big with child, Joy. You sit and I’ll serve.”

          “But, I am your daughter-in-law. It is my duty I serve you.”

          Luke kept his head down and mouth shut while he moved Joy’s chair to her to accustomed spot at the table. He knew from comments his mother had made in the past and from the way Odette sometimes studied his wife that she worried about Joy being so large with child. Compared to Ojibwa women, she considered Joy a small woman. She believed first babies were often difficult. She did not wish Joy to perform any task that might cause difficulties in her pregnancy.

          “Maybe that’s how it is in China but not in my house. You may wait on me hand and foot when I’m old, Joy, not before.

 

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I have a second Christmas book I will be offering this year. It is titled 

A Shopkeeper for Christmas. 

Here is the cover. For the book description and preorder link, please CLICK HERE.

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Saturday Snippet: Yet, One Chinese Woman

 

 

The following snippet is taken from my upcoming book, 

Gift of Restitution: A Story for Christmas 

Gold Mountain, Book 4

 

            Feeling Caldwell grow restless beneath him, Luke slowly exhaled. It was time to return to the livery—a place he hoped to soon leave behind him. By the time he returned home, he would be gone slightly over a month. He hoped, in his absence, Pastor and Mrs. Campbell visited to answer Joy’s questions. He wondered if they or his mother already read to Joy the part of the Christmas story she held so dearly in her heart. If not, after he arrived home, he would read it to her. I need to teach Joy to read in English. Perhaps this winter.

            Luke pondered over the extent Joy’s love of the Jesus stories changed how they spent their evenings. His mother had been baptized Catholic, but, as an adult, had not attended church. After she married his father who came from a Presbyterian background, they attended his church—when they went. Once David McDaniels died, and the white community of Duluth slowly turned their backs on her, Odette gathered up her little family and fled to the reservation. There she attached herself to her mother’s band. She became more comfortable with the centuries-old midewikwe beliefs of the Ojibwa than she did with the so-called Christianity of white Americans—a religion so many of them did not practice. Yet, one Chinese woman—someone most Americans considered a heathen—reintroduced a study of the teachings of Jesus to his family.

You may find the book description and preorder link for Gift of Restitution: a Story for Christmas by CLICKING HERE. 

 

 

I have a second Christmas book I will be offering this year. It is titled 

A Shopkeeper for Christmas. 

Here is the cover. For the book description and preorder link, please CLICK HERE.