One Magic Christmas

Ginny:
[to Cal] Don't get jelly on your jacket.

Cal:
Abbie got jelly on her jacket.

Abbie:
I did not, jelly face.

Cal:
One of these days, Abbie to the moon!

Abbie:
Gideon can make it so Dad's not dead anymore!

Abbie:
My brother's never going to believe this.

Gideon:
Can you keep a secret?

Abbie:
Yeah.

Gideon:
Well, uh. I'm an angel. A Christmas angel.

Abbie:
Oh, no you're not. Because my dad told me you can't see angels. They're invisible.

Gideon:
Well, they're invisible sometimes, but sometimes they have to show up.

Abbie:
So, what's your name then.

Gideon:
Gideon.

Abbie:
Gideon? Was you a good person that died?

Gideon:
Good person? Well, I was a cow hand... out, out west. And one Christmas, a long, long time ago, I was riding along the Snake River, and I heard this little... kid, uh, yelling to somebody, and uh, so I jumped into the river to save him. Well, I saved him. All right, but I got myself drowned. Because I didn't know how to swim. And um, after that they, they made me a Christmas angel.

Abbie:
What do Christmas angels do?

Gideon:
Well, my job is to, every Christmas, have to help one person, that's feeling down, to get into Christmas spirit.

Abbie:
One person?

Gideon:
Yeah.

Abbie:
Could it be my mom? Could you make my mom like Christmas better, Gideon?

Gideon:
Yeah. I think so, if you'll help me.

Abbie:
Okay.