“Have a great holidays,” the guy in the uniform said as he walked back towards his truck.
“You too,” we said automatically.
We checked the name on the packages and put them under the tree.
When we went, the tree guy was almost out of trees, two weeks early this year.
We picked a small tree and decided that we wouldn’t go crazy decorating this year.
The kids aren’t coming home, they said.
“We’ll set up a zoom meeting on Christmas Day,” they told us.